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I use a stack of paper as my mousepad. It's always available, easily disposable when i spill my drink on it, get food on it, etc., i can take notes on it, write down a to-do list, all kinds of good stuff. Tracking sucks for mechanical mouses, but it's good enough most of the time, and the new optical ones have no problems at all. 
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Are touchpads and those joystick-like-things-in-the-middle-of-the-keyboard-from-toshiba-notebooks cosidered a mouse ?
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I think if you dont have the standard style mouse with ball in bottom (how rude) then its classed as 'another type'.
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SOT:
I have always thought a mouse that hovers or levitates would be nice.
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Colin Davies wrote:
I have always thought a mouse that hovers or levitates would be nice.
Cool! So when you get drunk you are not sure whether it's the mouse or the alcohol that gives you the feeling that the earth suddenly lost it's gravity
Nish
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Pens - once you start its hard to go back, just like the mouse with the roller vs no roller...
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The trackball that I have gets gummed up every two or three days because I use my thumb with it. An optical trackball would be nicer. I do like the track ball on my desk because there is very little room for a mouse. It is impossible to play quake with though.
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I have logitech optical wheel mouse, it is great, but i have mouse pad with photo of boat int front of dusk  The problem is that when i'm moving mouse over black area, cursor sometimes stops moving, it is only chaotically jiggling around one point, untill i get off the dark area. Sometimes cursor is jiggling also when mouse is over dark area and is not moving  .
Do you use some special mouse pads for optical mouses ? I want to use some, becouse moving on table desk is not so smooth, it doesn't have so smooth surface
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You don't need a special mouse pad, however the surface does need to have some distinct non-repeating pattern so that the camera in the mouse can tell when (and in which direction) the mouse is moving. That being said, I have an all-black mouse pad both at home and work and the MS Intellimouse Explorers work perfectly on them, so I guess the minute texture in the surface is enough to be picked up by the camera.
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I have used both Microsoft and Logitech optical mice, and have to say I think the MS one is much better at not getting troubled by the picture on the mouse pad.
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I use the laminated wood surface of my desk -- never had any problems. It's good stuff.
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I've found for the most part, optical mice work the best without a mouse pad on just about any surface. I am using one right now on a terracotta tile table and it works great.
John
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John M. Drescher wrote:
using one right now on a terracotta tile table
Isnt that a bit too abrasive to the plastic of the mouse?
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
Isnt that a bit too abrasive to the plastic of the mouse?
I just checked and the mouse shows only a little bit of scratches on the four pads that make contact with the desk. There is a small amount of gunk on them which probably acted as a lubricant between the abrasive tile and the plastic.
John
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Assuming it's got a glossy clear plastic cover over the photo, just uses some 220 grit sandpaper to give it a "satin" finish and you'll be fine.
That said, the MS Optical mouse is tons better than the Logitech Optical. You might want to also try the new Logitach Dual Optical "with better tracking".
Marc
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I had a Logitech cordless keyboard/mouse package. Both bits of hardware lastest less than a year - the mouse in particular was SH*ITE. Warning - avoid at all costs. They may be better now, but I expect better quality for the money (£70 at the time).
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I've had that pack for ages and i love it! Its the best thing i ever bought and its worth every penny. Maybe you just had bad luck or treated yours really bad hehe . Only problem is when i ran out of batteries for the mouse and i had none at home.. thats real bad 
joeye@meu.mine.nu
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I treat my hardware with respect. Usually. he he. The space bar went on the keyboard and the left-click button on the mouse. 
I now have the MS optical job - only £20 from the local shop and the best mouse ever, ever, ever!!!
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My logitech cordless mouse is the best investment I ever made. It has survived my daughter using it, my son throwing it, and people in the office abusing it. You got a dud, I guess, but my experience causes me to recommend them without reservation.
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Have a vanilla Logitech mouse (cable, wheel, mechanical). The mouse itself is ok, but the USB cable is just to short, and it took me three days to make it cooperate with my ZIP drive on my Win9x box.
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The only Logitech device I use is their trackballs, which work great (especially on planes with laptops).
Cheers,
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the worst mouse i ever had was a microsoft wheel mouse.. after one year, the wheel stuck and i found no way how to get this d***** wheel going..
so i threw this mouse away.. right now i have got another crappy mouse (the ibm mouse with the scroll point.. i don't have got a slight idea, how somebody came to this bad idea with the scroll point)..
think somewhen i have to fight for a decent mouse..
yaya.. mice and men..
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I have a Logitech Optical Wheel mouse, OEM stuff, just € 19,-. Works perfect... Get this one. 
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sounds perfect.. thanks..
"I'm from the South Bronx, and I don't care what you say: those cows look dangerous."
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Bernhard wrote:
so i threw this mouse away
If you would have kept the mouse MS would send you a brand new one, sometimes you don't even need to send them the bad one 
James
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