What mouse do you use with OS X?
 

How about it? Apple keeps insisting that we only need one button, but I imagine many of us have made our own decisions. So what's your standard setup?

Only under duress will I use a 1 button mouse on an OS X system. :)

XWindows too
 

I need all three buttons with XWindows. I have 5 but the back and forward buttons don't do anything for me YET.

A 3 button wheel mouse is all I need with IE. Can't live without the wheel.

I use a Logitech 2 button + wheel optical mouse.

It works (with compatible software) without the need to install drivers.

The scrollwheel is highly recommended. It's a great aid to navigating long web pages.

Apple ADB Mouse II

Kensington Turbo Mouse - don't know why they call it a "mouse" as it is a 4 button track ball.

Been using it or it's predecessor since '95...much less wrist strain to me.

I use a cordless optical 3 button/scroll wheel logitech mouse. I really wish logitech would release drivers for it, I miss my 3rd button (thumb button) being "click and hold".

Very very happy with MacAlly two-button wheel mouse.

~Dennis

Logitech 2 button/scroll wheel.

It works very well, and when I have to use another Mac with only one button, I miss the added features.

I use many input devices. Most of the time I use my Apple Pro 1-button. It's just so exquisitely beautiful I can't part with it for any length of time. However, on occasion I switch to my Wacom Graphire tablet, which has both a stylus and two-button mouse with a scroll wheel. I only really use the mouse for web browsing. The stylus I use for Photoshop almost exclusivley.

I'll tell ya, though, I really miss my old ADB Kensington Thinking Mouse. Four programmable buttons, great software. Best mouse I ever had.

Andy

Same here, Pro mouse (haven't tried gaming with it yet, though) and a 12x12 Wacom. You should try UT with the tablet, awesome!
(kidding)

I used to only use my iBook trackpad (I notice there's no option for that!) but I got an Apple Pro Mouse the other day which I use with my left hand as the cable doesn't reach the right side!

iBook + apple mouse = eep!
 

How annoying can using a mouse with the iBook be?

I've got an old graphite iBook, and the only mouse I could afford is for a pro keyboard. Great, but the cable only reaches a usable position on the right when the cable goes over the keyboard... tucking it tight behind the machine gives JUST enough play to use the mouse, but I'm sick of getting hit by the cd tray every time I accidentaly hit the eject button

MUCH happier with my new G4!! ;)

trackball
 

I used to use a kensington ADB orbit, but the final version of the MouseWorks software for X made the programmability of that one die in X.

So, i'm now using a Logitech optical trackball with two buttons and a wheel, which most X apps support quite nicely.

Trackball
 

I'm currently using an Explorer Trackball from Micro$oft on my Cube. If you are using a multi button mouse under OS X check out USB Overdrive X. It returns functionality to the buttons that OS X doesn't support.

-Steve

Mice!
 

I use three different mice in OS X. First and foremost is my faithful Kensington Thinking Mouse. I have three of these - two of which I keep for backup purposes. This is the best mouse ever made...rubber side grips and four buttons on TOP of the mouse so they can be operated with just 2 fingers, keeping your thumb and other 2 fingers free for moving the mouse. Absolutely awesome! :D

My second mouse is a Razer Boomslang 2000, which is just killer to use in games. Rubber sides, four buttons, and a scroll wheel make this mouse a deadly piece of hardware. My only complaint is that the main button sometimes produces 2 clicks instead of one.

The third mouse I use is a Logitech Cordless Mouseman Optical. Have had it for two weeks and am slowly falling in love with it.

Some of my friends say I am obsessive about my input devices. I tell them that if I am going to spend my day with one hand wrapped around a mouse, it better feel great and work even better!

Kensington Mouse-In-A-Box Optical Pro
 

It's multi-button (5 actually)
It's chord-able (button-combos)
It's got a scroll wheel (handy for web surfing)
It's Optical (no more dirty mouse balls :D )
It's silver/grahite (matches my G4)
It's got OS X native drivers (absolute necessity)
It's NOT a Microsoft product (thank goodness)

What's not to love?

Kensington TurboBall
 

It's a big-precise-fast ball, with 4 buttons and a scroll.
BUT : Kensington still don't develop a good driver for trackball under X.
I can't make set for differents apps, I can't set fine-graduate-acceleration.
BUT : it is so much reactive compare to the apple mouse pro !

Apple Pro Mouse
 

I use the Apple Pro Mouse with three different machines; DP/G4, 600 iMac, and a Lombard/333. I somehow ended up with an extra Apple Pro Mouse, so now I'm thinking about using the extra mouse on my desktop machine, so that the left side is covered :D.

Re: Kensington Mouse-In-A-Box Optical Pro
 

Wow! You took the words right out of my mouth! I have the same mouse, and I have to admit, the $30 I spent on it was the best money I've EVER spent on a computer add-on(Besides my 512MB of Ram). My dad had an iMac too, and going home during christmas and using it(With his Apple Pro Mouse) was so frustrating.

I couldn't live without a three button mouse.