You get a right and left click, a clickable scroll wheel that goes up and down as well as left and right and two buttons that are naturally easy to reach from your thumbs position on the scoop. I like the simplicity of this mouse, it’s comfortable and functional without any bells and whistles. It feels a lot like a slightly elongated baseball in size and the thumb scoop is a perfect place to rest your…errm thumb. I’m no specialist ergono-mist but I instantly felt a load of stress lift off my wrist when I held this mouse. The Microsoft Ergonomic mouse was my next choice and although it sacrificed things like bluetooth connectivity, Mac specific software and all of the extra assignable buttons, as soon as my hand touched it I was sold. Not to mention the fact that the MX Master goes for around $100-$150AUD which is ridiculous for a mouse in my opinion. I heard a lot of good things about the MX Master and was impressed with it’s design, functionality and Mac compatibility but after trying it I realized that my wrist was still in the same position, with my hand just being a little bit higher and more arched. I was tossing up between this one and the Logitech MX Master. I looked at round 5 mice before settling on this one. So before I picked this one up, I did some research. My personal preference seems to be slightly larger, bulky and angled mice. I know people who twist and contort their wrists for hours on end using a laptop trackpad and have no complaints at all. Possibly because it will come down to personal preference. However, unlike gluten, there is no way to measure how ergonomic something is.

These days everything is ‘ergonomic’, I swear that word is the gluten free fad equivalent of the technology world. I genuinely love the Magic Mouse, particularly the touch sensitive features which make things like horizontal scrolling and zooming a breeze, but I love not being in pain more. I did some research online and it turns out there are a lot of people who get pains from using the Magic Mouse for things like video editing, gaming and just prolonged use in general. This has lead me to use my mouse (Apple’s Magic Mouse) a lot more than usual, in turn revealing that I get really harsh wrist pain when using that mouse for long periods of time, like say editing 1 hour of video/audio down to 7 minutes. In recent weeks I have been doing a lot more audio/video production than I have in the past.

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