Personal computing discussed
Chrispy_ wrote:I hear you; Nobody makes the perfect mouse. You just have to try a bunch and use the one that annoys you least.
If money was no object, and I designed and manufactured my perfect mouse, I imagine it wouldn't be that popular would, uh - SELL LIKE HOTCAKES AND MAKE EVERYONE INVOLVED VERY RICH.
- Wired, four-button mouse (Left, right, scrollwheel, thumb)
- Scrollwheel with notches. Nothing fancy like sideways or freewheel scrolling. Just a wheel that you can scroll up or down with, and feel how many 'clicks' you've scrolled.
- Flat sides with a sensible, non-slip texture. (claw grip mouse user here)
- Decent sensor with high tracking speed and low LOD, and it doesn't have to be laser because I was happy with the original logitech MX sensors from a decade ago
- A basic driver that lets you set up four the buttons as mouse1, mouse2, mouse3 and mouse4 if so desired.
Really, is that so hard?
(not-so-subtly edited in case a manufacturer stumbles upon this thread.)
Captain Ned wrote:Methinks LOD (as defined in this post; it has other defintions) is meaningless to anyone not a twitch MMO gamer. All of my mice are MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0s, mainly because they fit my hand. Their LOD is zero. I don't play MMO games, so I don't need the twitch.
Arclight wrote:Hello fellow TR forum members,
For a while now i have been dissapointed with every new mouse i bought. The main source of my dissapointed hasn't been dued to tracking issues, ergonimics (or lack or thereof), buttons malfunctioning or other stuff, rather it was dued to the high lift off distance (LOD for short) which makes them track (i.e. move the cursor) even when i lift the mouse slightly in order to reposition it.
Arclight wrote:I think high lift off distance is most disturbing for fps games, if i played rts or other kind of games i suppose i wouldn't be that annoyed......IE 3.0 you say? I might give it a try when i'll replace my current mouse.
Captain Ned wrote:Arclight wrote:I think high lift off distance is most disturbing for fps games, if i played rts or other kind of games i suppose i wouldn't be that annoyed......IE 3.0 you say? I might give it a try when i'll replace my current mouse.
Better buy soon as it's no longer made.
Arclight wrote:I'm throwing the white towel.
Cannonaire wrote:I haven't played with re-calibrating, but the Imperator is a good mouse, in my experience. I picked one up during an Amazon gold box deal for $47 a year ago and gave it to my brother as a gift. It's $60 today.Razer's Imperator mice...
auxy wrote:Out of curiosity, why lift the mouse at all? I can do a 360-degree turn without picking up my mouse from the desk (albeit it has a fairly high-DPI sensor); why wouldn't you just buy a mouse with a high-DPI sensor?「(°ヘ°)
Arclight wrote:Rude! (¬д¬。)Sorry to say but that's stupid.
Arclight wrote:Well, maybe you should upgrade your skills instead of buying rubbish mice. ┐(´∀`)┌ヤレヤレNot everyone can/want to play with high DPI even if the mouse is capable. Even if i did i'd still have to reposition it at some point while seeing my character's crosshair on the screen jump randomly up or down. It's the most annoying thing i have ever experienced while playing a first person shooter.
auxy wrote:Arclight wrote:Rude! (¬д¬。)Sorry to say but that's stupid.Arclight wrote:Well, maybe you should upgrade your skills instead of buying rubbish mice. ┐(´∀`)┌ヤレヤレNot everyone can/want to play with high DPI even if the mouse is capable. Even if i did i'd still have to reposition it at some point while seeing my character's crosshair on the screen jump randomly up or down. It's the most annoying thing i have ever experienced while playing a first person shooter.
Arclight wrote:I don't really know what to tell you, honestly! ┐(‘~`;)┌ This is kind of like that guy who comes into my IRC channel all the time looking for new ways to stop EM radiation from entering his house. You're talking about a problem that I don't really see anyone else having and that I personally don't even understand. I can imagine what the problem is, based on what you've said, but I can't really reproduce it; not in normal use (i.e. not without purposefully holding the mouse a hair's breadth off the surface and moving it around).Maybe marketing has made many unaware of what rubbish actually is when it comes to mice. At work i have an HP optic mouse which on the back it says "Manufactured by Logitech Inc." and it has an LOD lower than a 1 CD. That's saying a lot about what "quality" mice are all about, esthetics and GIGAHURTZ CPI sensors. I tried to find a mouse like this in stores but it seems it's only sold by HP together with their prebuilt machines. The search continues.....
auxy wrote:So what are you really even talking about? (ノ ̄д ̄)ノ