Isn't my old mouse good enough?

When did the mouse I've had for the past...8 years become obsolete?

I still have my Logitech MX300 USB optical mouse that I bought a LONG time ago for $30 on my desk, and I've tried to switch to others.

I once got a birthday present in the form of the Logitech Laser mouse once, which had weights you could put in it and whatnot, but to be honest, it just had too many buttons. I found myself accidentally hitting things and messing up my chi.

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So I went back to the MX300, and never looked back...or would that be "forward"? It's the dull, black and silver "modern" look from about 2002. But how can it be beat? Certainly not by a laser mouse.

Take a look at that new Arc Touch mouse my Microsoft. Sure looks fancy. Maybe it will help some people with gaming or comfort. Probably costs $75, and is wireless (something to this day I am entirely against, except for the wireless keyboard and mouse combo that hooks up to my plasma).

But really, do we need better mice? Two buttons and a scroll seems to be working out just fine here. The Mx300 is 8 years old, and has cost me about $3.75 a year to use, and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. I can't see myself using a touchscreen for my desktop unless something (truly) magical comes around that doesn't leave smudges, and even if so, what's the point? So I can shift my photos around with my finger instead? OK, fine, progress wins.

Maybe I'm just old and am losing contact with the kids, which seems to be the case when I read those Beloit College Mindset Lists: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php . I bet next year it'll say "Kids have never known anything that didn't have a touchscreen".

Which brings back a memory of when I used to work at EDS. One day we got a stockpile of Microsoft Intellimouse scroll mice in, and I thought I would be a savior for folks in an area that I know didn't have scroll mice. I was greeted as Computer Jesus by most, but of course, there always has to be one who doesn't play nice. She was a wonderfully crotchety woman, and was fine with having her rectangular Compaq mouse...forever. I was shocked, and tried to explain the benefits of the scroll mouse...to no avail. I went back to my desk defeated.

Here's to arched wrists and smudged screens forever.

-Nate

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