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A gold hockey puck mouse
Posted by: mindthegap on 2023-05-09 03:51:43
I've got this gold color hockey puck mouse from Japan. Is this from third-party company?

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Posted by: Phipli on 2023-05-09 03:57:55
Modified I think, either a new ball and the one plastic moulding, or a new ball and a painted part. It has genuine apple parts by the look of it.

If I was making them, I'd paint them, and the brand name on the side would be done with a heated stamp (quite literally branding). It would be way cheaper to use extremely good paint than to make new plastic parts in small quantities.
Posted by: finkmac on 2023-05-09 05:34:32
The colourful plastic side "skins" are trivial to remove


Macway was (is?) a peripheral maker akin to Macally/Mathey. Presumably they offered replacement mouse "skins".
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