A good pad for optical mice?
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mouse is good, got it to, as for a pad, dunno, i have this ghey old one, wich acutally slides terrible but hell, im used to it 
, i had this everglide once for a week, that one was very nice, a bit too sensitive for me, but cool, unfortunally it died pretty soon :\
, i had this everglide once for a week, that one was very nice, a bit too sensitive for me, but cool, unfortunally it died pretty soon :\
as strange as this may sound:
have you tried it without a pad yet?
if the surface of your desk is very 1337, it might actually work better than any overpriced super-pad.
have you tried it without a pad yet?
if the surface of your desk is very 1337, it might actually work better than any overpriced super-pad.
Sven_ya!
From the land of sky-blue wa-AH-ters!
My cheap Logitec optical mouse doesn't seem to like most surfaces. But, I've got this mouse pad that's actually sorta hard-plated and it works rather well on that.
I have a logitech roller ball optical mouse....stays in one spot....no mouse pad to clutter up the dest......I realy like it for playing UT cause my hands not flying all over the desk!!!
lucifix
I did something m0tarded and now I have read only access! :(
i've thought about getting an optical mouse cause of the extra buttons. do they work with games and stuff?
I use a retinal-sensitive, laser-guided mouse. A sensor can tell where my eye is at and it moves the mouse pointer accordingly. When I want to click or double-click something I just yell out, “The aliens are coming!” once or twice, depending on the number of clicks I want.
Everyone I know who gets a ratpad says it's the best money they've spent for performance. That's all of like 4 ppl, but still, they all love them
I could do with getting one too, I'm getting this fuck-off huge lump on my wrist from rubbing it on my desk so much
cordless does suck, nothing worse then having an empty battery while you are playing or hard working..
diddlysquat
FlamingPsychoTrannyBitch
Well, I am using the back of a Crescent, #300 drawing board right now, has a fairly smooth action, and not as jerky as my desktop was. Woodgrain, even fake woodgrain seems to mess a bit with the optics. Keeping the mouse "feet" and surface clean however, is the most important factor from my experience. Even on a bad surface, if the mouse "feet" or pads on the bottom of the mouse are kept clean, it makes a real difference in performance.
Originally posted by @kuma
I could do with getting one too, I'm getting this fuck-off huge lump on my wrist from rubbing it on my desk so much
I've got them on both wrists :/
One on the left for playing ut, and then the other on the right from the editor.
I've got an Intellimouse or somesuch. It is an optical mouse, but being an optical mouse does not necessarily entail more buttons. Also, it needs no batteries and seems to run about the same off a mousepad as on.
my optical mouse was so cheap I don't even remember if it's branded. The sucka works like a dream on the desk or the pad tho..
My 2 penneth:/
My 2 penneth:/