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Am I the only person that loves the mouse/trackpad feel in OS X? Maybe it's because I've gotten too used to it, but I find it somewhat annoying to switch to Win or Ubuntu because of the different feel they have. I was using Ubuntu for about 6 months last year and never quite got used to how jumpy it felt (and yes, I did play with the mouse settings).

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No, you're not the only one. There's simply more switchers than ever before, and they're vocal about their complaints.

It's not just "switchers" that complain about this stuff. If there is one thing Apple can't get right, it's mouse input.

The input lag is one thing. What about the actual hardware? Remember the hockey puck? The pro mouse? The mighty mouse?

There is a joke somewhere in there... maybe about Jobs having to "invent" multi-touch because he couldn't grock the concept of a mouse.

The hockey puck was a miserable failure. Other than that, there's no problem with Apple input devices.

In particular, the multi-touch trackpads are the meow part of the cat.

Apple has the worlds most terrible mouse product designs, but if there is one thing they got right it was the touchpads. I will not be purchasing a Windows laptop until I can get one with the exact same touchpad with the exact same surface and feeling to it. I've spent countless hours with my Mac and just the touchpad, I wouldn't even dream of doing the same with my Lenovo IdeaPad or any other laptop I have played with to date.

I love to criticize my Mac, but this is one of the areas that I've never found fault - the mouse and trackpad controls are flawless.

Recently I've had to use a Windows laptop (Lenovo) for work and I've yet to find a suitable external mouse - the track (pad|point) on the laptop is over-responsive, and both Microsoft and Logitech drivers are buggy in their application.

Finally (and this is only on my recent laptop) the external mouse and keyboard take ages to "wake up" - and they're USB (the bluetooth ones sometimes require me to go to device properties in order to become visible)! On my Mac, external inputs respond immediately once plugged in, and even bluetooth is almost seamless.

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