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> Left-handed? We have already seen a few comments about the USB ports being on the left side of the unit, and the fact that this makes the mouse cable cross over for most right-handed users. The PCB shape had to be defined early on so that the industrial designers could get on with the housing design, and I then stared endlessly at the PCB layout, trying to get one of the USB ports to route to the right side without wrecking the signal integrity of the memory or the HDMI; I could not find a way to do this. Left-handed folks and Bluetooth mouse-owners will be happy at least!

Ha! I questioned this in an earlier thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24980083)

It's really great to see a response that highlights the reasons (and an acknowledgement that it was something they truly did try to address!).

But, my comment on the promo photo layouts still stand - having the mouse on the left side just for the clean shot must have just stood out for a lot of people. They should just lampshade it - say they're satisfying the lefties for once!

As a lefty who mouses right-handed -- do many actually put their mouse on the left side? I started computing at a young age, and I suppose I didn't bother to or think to rearrange the desk so I could use the mouse left-handed. Now, trying to mouse left-handed feels like trying to write right-handed; it's taxing and aggravating to try to muster the precision required.

I do, because it solved a rsi issue for me. The mouse is far closer to the centerline of my body when I don’t have the keypad in the way.

I use a ”ten-key-less” keyboard (without numerical part but with arrow and delete-block keys) for this reason.

I've had a long history with obscure keyboards. This all started in `99 with the Apple Extended Keyboard 2 (ADB, great action, but wide), then the narrower/older Apple Keyboard (adb, good action till it wore out), Two Model M13s with trackpoints (PS/2, good action, but one started having key repeat issues, and the other one has an aging cable thats tempermental.) They also don't have enough modifier keys anymore.

By the time tenkeyless boards were common, I was firmly in the lefthanded mouse camp.

For a while, I was running two mice, one for each side, but I pretty quickly ended up with just the one.

Same, I switched decades ago because of rsi. Now I always use the mouse on the left. I used to switch to the right only to do very fine “lasso” work in photoshop. But I do full time development only now.

For a long time I was a righty that used a mouse left handed. It was just how I learned. It wasn't until I got older and fps controls changed from the numpad or arrow keys as default to wasd for movement that I eventually just switched. That and going through school and being at work with mice being on the right side.

I am lefty who used to mouse right sided but a shoulder injury makes me favor the left now. I still use righty button mapping so coworkers can use it immediately. It doesn't take long to get used to it. The biggest annoyance is left side keyboard shortcuts aren't immediately available.

My first mouse was on an Apple IIgs and I set that up lefty on day one but parental unit dissuaded me after that.

Who uses a wired mouse today anyway? I haven't used one in years! I associate it with a ball even ;)

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