It's been done and it works quite well from what I've read! I am not sure that Seiko still makes them, but you can still find some new ones for sale. Always wanted to get one of these since they're quite unique.
Unfortunately, Seiko's "Kinetic" movements don't seem to have ever been a big hit, so I don't know if it's something people actually wanted.
Ultimately I think the "problem" is that regular solar watches work so damn well, and that most quartz buyers have no interest in "unique" movements. I mean, I do, but I'm the minority. And I still never bought one...
junky little thing you get with your PC that's wired
What are your experiences here?
Mine is that generic ultra-cheap wired optical mice have been Totally Fine™ now for roughly 20 years! It's a completely solved problem.
They track fine, they have more than enough DPI for anybody except maybe hardcore twitch action gamers, and they all have vaguely ergonomic sculpted shapes.
Apple's mice lose out for me before I move the pointer because the first thing I notice is that the shape of the mouse itself has more or less no correlation with the shape of a human hand. It always feels like you're grasping some weird foreign object.
Apple's eternal failure to make a decent mouse is, without exaggeration, probably the most baffling longstanding technology puzzle in the world to me.
Far from the most important mystery. But, the most baffling.
It's just bizarre because they tend to get other ergo factors right, such as making the best touchpads in the business.
Their 5-year nightmare of bad laptop keyboards was frustrating but at least there was an explanation: it seemed to pretty clearly be an artifact of Ive prioritizing thinness over functionality, and thankfully they belatedly righted themselves. The mouse situation just has no obvious explanation.
One can only imagine that the team responsible for designing the mice is some kind of third-class citizen inside Apple. But like... have the people on that team ever used their own products?!? How does that team use their own crap, and then use a Logitech mouse or even a $12 generic mouse from Amazon, and think they are competitive?
I'll bet new people go over to ask why the mice are so bad, then get chased away and give up.
I've met and worked with lots of apple developers. Many truly are fighting the good fight. Some are quite good, but wisely can only shrug about some apple-isms. You can only do so much.
But there are a few I've met that ... they are certain apple can do no wrong. sigh.
It turns out that you need third party tools for
non-Apple mice, like Mac Mouse Fix.
Was that via Bluetooth or the "Logitech Bolt" receiver?
It's been many years (10?) since I tried a 3rd party BT mouse with Macs. I remember it always sucking with both Logitech and (I think?) Microsoft mice.
FWIW they've always worked flawlessly with the previous-generation Logitech Nano receivers. I dunno anything about these "Logitech Bolt" receivers, other than that they appear to be USB-C and not USB-A which is kind of maddening.
I suppose scalping hadn't been as severe globally
or in US until recent NVIDIA GPU launches?
For years, it was absolutely massive for iPhone launches.
It was amusing, if not a little frustrating. News coverage would always show it as evidence of fanatical Apple fans. But (especially after the first year or two) it was pretty clearly mostly flippers/scalpers.
Anybody talking about how much they like (or dislike) Nintendo's plan needs to compare it to the alternative which is "insane levels of scalping" and not some kind of mythical ideal zero-scalping world where supply precisely meets demand on day 1.
Yeah. Easier said than done, I know, but they need to not just catch up to nVidia but leapfrog them somehow.
I would have said that releasing cards with 32GB+ of onboard RAM, or better yet 128GB, would have gotten things moving. They'd be able to run/train models that nVidia's consumer cards couldn't.
But I think nVidia closed that gap with their "Project Digits" (or whatever the final name is) PCs.
https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/customerservice/knowledge...
https://www.jomashop.com/seiko-kinetic-watch-ska791.html
Unfortunately, Seiko's "Kinetic" movements don't seem to have ever been a big hit, so I don't know if it's something people actually wanted.
Ultimately I think the "problem" is that regular solar watches work so damn well, and that most quartz buyers have no interest in "unique" movements. I mean, I do, but I'm the minority. And I still never bought one...
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