Mice

Just curious, but what mice do you guys use? I've been using a fairly basic M$ optical mouse, but the right click died, so I picked up a Razer Diamondback. I originally ordered it off buy.com, but after a week, they told me it was back ordered, so I picked on up at Circuit City. Slightly more expensive, but at least I have it nao

I've gone through about three mice in four years.

First being the basic dell mouse that came with my comp; strangely, it seems to have lasted the longest... don't remember much about the seccond one aside from it dying within a month.

Current one I use I forget the name for, but I refer to it as my "hardcore" mouse simply 'cause opening the fucker is a radiation hazard. Motherfucker is goosey as hell, and does strange shit in first-person shooters like unreal tourney 2k4 [something involving the smoothing motion of the cursor]

More household objects should have radiation hazards.

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I use the standard scroll-wheel ball mice, either PS2 or USB connectors.  Occasionally I end up on a friend's computer with an optical mouse, with no discernible difference.  Since I haven't paid for a mouse in many years, I use whatever is available.  On another friend's computer, he uses a non-scroll-wheeled ball mouse through a serial port (9-pin D-sub connector).  Other than missing the scroll wheel, there's again no discernible difference.

Occasionally my home mouse picks enough dust, lint, cat hair and skin oil to form a line of compressed dirt around one or both of the rollers inside the mouse that the ball rotates against.  The dirt tends to make the ball slide against the roller, so the cursor slips equally on the screen.  I pop out the ball, scrape off the line of dirt with a fingernail, and after a minute or so the mouse is clean enough to use for another 4 weeks before I notice slippage again.  An optical mouse doesn't have that much of a problem with dirt ... although I have seen them clog up with hair, which affected the tracking similarly.  It seems that an optical mouse simply suffers from clogging at much less of a frequency than the ball mice.

I use a A-4 Tech optical. Bought it a couple of years ago for some 70 SEK/10 $. The most lint resistent mouse I ever had.