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Friday, December 13, 2002

Mouse update

I got a new mouse. I got the Logitech dual optical, and I'm pretty happy with it so far, except it sometimes freaks out for no apparent reason and the cursor goes to the top or bottom of the screen or something. I'll see if it keeps happening.

By the way, the ergonomics of the MX500 model sucked. Maybe it was just that I have small hands or something, but there was no place for my ring finger to sit. It was awfully designed. And all the little buttons are stupid too. The mouse I got is pretty well designed, and it has one nicely placed extra button for the thumb which I've mapped to "back". I had to change the initial mapping of the scroll button, which was set to something weird.

My other choice was Microsoft's optical blue mouse. It's very nicely designed, and it's pretty, but it lacked the back button, it was a little more expensive than what I wound up paying for the Logitech, and I really wanted to try out the dual optical aspect of the Logitech and see if it helps in Unreal

By the way, re: ThinkGeek being expensive. The same mouse at TG is listed at $35.99, which is actually less than the list price at $39.95 or .99. But at CompUSA they had an instant rebate of $10, and there's a mail in rebate of $10 too. So after the mail in rebate, I got the mouse for $19.95.

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That jumpiness is the side affect of optical mice. A minor annoyance compared to most things. Keep that mouse as close to the mousepad as possible when you lift it up to re-orient/move it.

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So do all optical mice have that problem?

Yup, I think some of the very latest models are less touchy though. Frankly your hand learns what not to do pretty rapidly so don't worry.

It's not caused by anything I do. I was literally moving the mouse down slowly to select an item on a drop down menu, and all of a sudden my cursor runs away to the right side of the screen. This is why I got a mouse with two sensors - I figured it had to be more accurate. I'll call Logitech, and if they can't give me any good news (hey, it just happened again, but now it went down to the bottom left corner), I'm returning it and getting the Microsoft mouse I was looking at. The mouse also has non-standard scroll wheel behavior.

The freaky behavior by the mouse is really startling when it happens during a game of Unreal... I'll be running somewhere, and all of a sudden my screen starts spinning - I don't even know sometimes whether I'm looking up or down, and it takes me a second to get my bearing. And it's really annoying when I die because of my mouse.

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