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Volitions Advocate on 29/9/2010 at 06:59

Quote Posted by Renzatic

It's cheap. It's wimpy. But it works surprisingly well for what I need.

Yeah. this is what I use on my netbook: (http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/dynex-wireless-optical-laptop-mouse-dx-pwlmse/10097448.aspx?path=579924fcac4a442d564622f265e81c01en02) LINK except I only paid 11 bucks for mine @ future shop.

its small but it's handy, and often times, since i'm in an audio course I'm surrounded by mac whores (no offense to mac .. sort of) and Mac machines, and i just HATE their mice. so often I whip this out and plug it into the computer to use instead. half decent range too.

Vernon on 29/9/2010 at 07:22

Had a logitech MX500 for years, but started playing a particular RTS competitively (in the I-was-very-competitive-about-it sense, not I'm-so-pro-pwning-u-nubs sense), so the MX500 had to go - too heavy. I ended up going back to wired with a (http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.169416400) Razer Diamondback 3G. It is pretty nice I guess. It isn't one of Razer's top end mice, but it does the tracking thing like no other. I get a secret pleasure out of people using my computer and asking if I can lower the mouse sensitivity. Here is my colour:

Inline Image:

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv137/theeggonlegs/31s28J2DJ7L.jpg

So there's the standard 3 buttons then another 2 on either side. I never use them outside of certain RTS games and even then not really. I think that for me, a mouse just has to be fast and responsive.

Matthew on 29/9/2010 at 10:16

I have the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_G9) Logitech G9 mouse myself; I don't use all the buttons and stuff much, but the sensitivity is great once you get used to flinging your pointer all over the screen at the slightest twitch.

Vernon on 29/9/2010 at 10:42

Quote Posted by gunsmoke

I am just not as effective in games without my 5-button ball mouse.

That's really interesting btw - you're pretty tidy in Left 4 Dead. In that expert game on Hard Rain where you had 350-500 ping to Australia - I think you only had one friendly fire incident and you were using a ball mouse? I don't think I've used a ball mouse since Windows ME (cringe)

Sulphur on 29/9/2010 at 10:53

Logitech MX 518. Affordable, comfy, super precise, non-gimmicky, and comes with on-the-fly DPI switching. Plus, it looks like someone went at it with a ball peen hammer. What's not to like?

Inline Image:

http://members.chello.nl/g.balk4/review/logitech_mx518.jpg

Koki on 29/9/2010 at 11:36

Quote Posted by Sulphur

non-gimmicky

Inline Image:

http://navigatorcenter.ro/images/products_images/a4tech/sww-36.jpg

Three buttons, scrolling wheel, wired, ball. Non-gimmicky.

Vernon on 29/9/2010 at 11:38

I dunno that glittering plastic chassis looks pretty pimping to me

Kuuso on 29/9/2010 at 12:42

I haven't yet touched a mouse where the side-buttons would have been comfortable to use, I guess this is partly due to my sausage fingers, which can just about grab a glass without breaking it. I'm using a razer Diamondback and it has lasted me five(?) years even though it falls to the ground every week multiple times.

Sure, I've fixed it a bit but thats quite awesome imo.

Malleus on 29/9/2010 at 13:13

Quote Posted by Koki

Three buttons, scrolling wheel, wired, ball.

This is pretty much what I use. I had optical and laser mice before, but always came back to this.

reizak on 29/9/2010 at 13:48

Another MX518 here. I've been using it for most of the last decade and it's still going strong, although recently it's started randomly freezing and resetting its sensitivity, but apparently that's a problem with the Win 7 USB controller and not a hardware failure (I wish it was a hardware failure so I could just get another one of these and be rid of it, as apparently no one's come up with a fix yet).