Favorite mice

[macgeek417]

OK... Order mice you've used from favorite to least favorite.

You can put stuff like touchpads and pen tablets in here too!

Apple Pro Mouse

Wacom Tablet

Hockypuck mouse (Call me crazy, but I liked the hockypuck mouse, thankyouverymuch. I wish they made a laser mouse vesion.)

Apple Laser Mouse

Mouse Keys (Use the number pad as the mouse, OSX)

Laptop Touchpads

Wireless mice (I've had bad experiences with these. grrr.)

Those trackball thingies

Thats all I can remember.

 

[John8520]

I love those cheapo microsoft USB optical mice, I've had several over the years and have a black one now. Two buttons and a scrollwheel as a third, comfortable and works great. On laptops I prefer the trackpoint but can make do with trackpads. I have a logitech trackball that I like, one that you use your fingers on, I have an ADB thumb one too but I hate it. The only mice I really hate fall into one of three categories: jumpy tracking, too small, or a scroll wheel that doesn't have stops in it (those smooth ones).

 

[Dan 7.1]

I really like the Logitech MX518i gaming mouse. Its corded so its lightweight and has instantaneous response, 1800dpi so it tracks well over any surface, its buttons are well placed and it feels well built. My other favorite is my Razer Lachesis, but to be honest aside from its, frankly crazy, 4000dpi tracking and big buttons, it has a more "sleek" body which i find uncomfortable to use after an extended period of time.

Other than that I just use my MBP's trackpad.

 

[Christopher]

Dynex WOM-2

some cheap Ativia mouse from Office Depot

Apple Pro Mouse

iBook Clamshell track pad

Logitech Trackball ADB

those track points that look like an eraser stuck in the keyboard.

New macbook buttonless track pads/

 

[Scott Baret]

I love the current IBM two-button scroll mouse (with the red wheel). I use one on my MacBook and may buy a few more to have as spares since IBM mice may be a thing of the past soon. This is especially true for someone who hates the Mighty Mouse with a passion--I'm going to need another IBM mouse if I get a new Mac.

The old Logitech optical mice circa 1999-2000 (MouseMan) were also quite good. I have one with a scroll wheel. Some of the newer Logitechs are also quite nice but I don't like the ones that are designed for one hand or the other. I am ambidextrous and have a tendency to change the hand I use my mouse with depending on what I have on my desk at the moment.

Microsoft has some decent models out now too but I really haven't gotten a chance to use many of them. I did get a chance to use a basic Microsoft for a few days not long ago and found it comfortable.

The ProMouse isn't bad but I've found the cords to be prone to shorting out. My original black ProMouse no longer functions because of this issue. (I even have the original box for it; bought it with a memory upgrade for my Clamshell in 2001). I do like the hockey puck, especially the one with the recess on the button.

As for older mice, I like the early 1990s IBM two-button, the original Microsoft mice, the original Apple ADB mouse, and the Mouse IIc.

My favorite trackball is the one that came on the PowerBook 1xx series. My preferred trackpads are found on the current MacBook, the Clamshell, and most recent Thinkpads.

 

[macgeek417]

yeah... My Pro Mouse shorted out, too. :'(

 

[luddite]

Kensington Orbit FTW!

 

[Winterlast]

Add my Pro Mouse to that death toll. (...but it looked so cool!)

 

[MultiFinder]

I'll go ahead and be the oddball and admit that I like the mighty mouse; so long as I don't use it with dirty hands, it's fine. If I use it with dirty hands, then the scrollball gets jammed up in a moment, but a quick jet of compressed air makes it happy again. Four buttons and 360-degree scrolling rocks

That said, I do like my black Pro Mouse a great deal, and I have yet to use a lousy Logitech mouse.

 

[II2II]

Favourites: my Kensington Turbo Mouse and trackpoints.

I cannot stand trackpads. The decent ones are okay (e.g. PowerBooks), but there are a lot of shitty ones out there too.

For mice proper, my tastes aren't terribly fashionable. I did like the hockey puck mouse, and the old boxy Apple mice.

 

[tyrannis]

Nothing beats a Turbo Mouse 4.0. I also like the original "made in USA" ADB mouse with the heavy ball.

 

[Sludgedragon]

My favorite is a no-name mouse I got in some computer store in Japan, that has blue LED to go with the red laser. It's small and very zippy. I got a Mighty Mouse with my new iMac but it's so big and sluggish I went right back to the little red and blue one.

I,too, like the puckmouse, if they made one with two buttons and a scroll, it would please me.

 

[~Coxy]

Apple never made a Laser Mouse, did they?

I still use a Mighty Mouse myself, with a plain old Logitech/Dell for games.

 

[Christopher]

My favorite is a no-name mouse I got in some computer store in Japan, that has blue LED to go with the red laser. It's small and very zippy. I got a Mighty Mouse with my new iMac but it's so big and sluggish I went right back to the little red and blue one.
I,too, like the puckmouse, if they made one with two buttons and a scroll, it would please me.

Is this the no name mouse?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/3467709898_3d934e4942_o.jpg

Ignore the stoned eye, one opens more then the other but my arm covered the good eye.

 

[Mike Richardson]

I'm using a Kensington 2 button with scroll wheel mouse right now. Standard USB optical deal. Works fine I guess.

I put more stock in the keyboard I use. Tactile Pro all the way; Model M on a PC, Extended or Extended II on an ADB Mac.

 

[Cory5412]

I use the trackpoint on all three of my ThinkPads, plus the trackpoint on the external UltraNav USB keyboard I got to use with flatdell and with my main thinkpad when it's sitting on the dock.

Beyond that, the mighty mouse is okay for Macs, I have a lenovo bluetooth mouse, and I really appreciate the slightly older style Dell mouse, the one they used from about 2004/2005 to 2008. I've got two of them (one optical and one not.) and haven't ever had problems with them.

Wacom tablets are great, but still pretty expensive, especially if you don't do much actual work with graphics. In my experience it makes photoshop work go more easily but it's not really necessary, unless you're actually using photoshop/flash/illustrator/another-graphics-app as a medium for drawing.

 

[Dan 7.1]

The old Logitech optical mice circa 1999-2000 (MouseMan) were also quite good. I have one with a scroll wheel. Some of the newer Logitechs are also quite nice but I don't like the ones that are designed for one hand or the other. I am ambidextrous and have a tendency to change the hand I use my mouse with depending on what I have on my desk at the moment.

I had an old, blue MouseMan Wheel which I absolutely loved, but I found that under rapid movement it wasn't precise enough, the pointer would jump all around the screen erratically. If it had a higher resolution sensor I probably would have never gotten rid of it.

 

[macgeek417]

Apple never made a Laser Mouse, did they?
I still use a Mighty Mouse myself, with a plain old Logitech/Dell for games.

It's the mouse that came w/ the eMac! It is basicly a white Apple Pro Mouse without the DPI adgustment knob at the bottom.

The only probelem is it doesnt match my Apple Pro Keyboard - Best keyboard ever!!!

Guess il need to make a thread about favorite keyboards...

 

[Christopher]

DPI adjustment? You mean the button sensitivity knob.