Need a good mouse!

Red Bull

No, not the animal....I need a mouse for when I get my MBP. I've been looking at the mighty mouse, and used one today. I really like it but I hear the scroll ball on it is a nightmare (always breaks, doesn't work, or gets stuck) Are there any mice out there that you suggest? I was looking at some Logitech ones but I'm still not completely sure what I want to get.

Just some guidelines:

-Needs to be wireless
-Needs to be full size (no little laptop mice, they're uncomfortable)
-Prefer to have bluetooth since the MBP has it built in and I wouldn't have to take up a USB port)
-Willing to spend up to about $70-$80.

And I already looked into a Wacom tablet and decided that I don't really like it. It may be great when editing photos, but I don't want to have to use the mouse on the tablet itself.

SloYerRoll

It's really a matter of operator preference.
What I like you may think bites.

As far as motion tracking, all optical mice are basically created equal. there may be marginal differances. Not enough to worry about though. The differences lay in the ergonomincs and user functionality.

Go out to a big computer store and get your hands on some mice.


On a side note: If you decide to go optical. Make sure you have a single color surface to mouse on. If you get a pad w/ a cool design, your optics can track off and give less than satisfactory results.

-Jon

cabbey

SloYerRoll wrote:

It's really a matter of operator preference.
What I like you may think bites.

I can't stand the mice my wife or mother use all the time (wife liked mom's so much she bought one), my old office mate took one look at the mouse I use and laughed himself silly. That said, I've never seemed to go wrong with a logitech mouse or trackball. And I'll never go back to a mouse with a ball in it, ever.

As far as motion tracking, all optical mice are basically created equal. there may be marginal differances. Not enough to worry about though. The differences lay in the ergonomincs and user functionality.

I'd tend to disagree here... you get what you pay for quite often.

On a side note: If you decide to go optical. Make sure you have a single color surface to mouse on. If you get a pad w/ a cool design, your optics can track off and give less than satisfactory results.

And this is exactly why it matters. I have three optical mice here in the house, one cost $5, another cost $90. On the same mouse pad with an intricate design pattern, the cheap mouse is utterly useless and frustraiting, the middle mouse is kinda so-so... mostly works but you wouldn't want to retouch photos in photoshop. But the good mouse, my MX700 is smooth and accurate enough to do retouching without any problems. On a solid colored mouse pad all three are about the same... the MX actually is a little bit WORSE on the solid surface of my desk... I think the texture in the image helps it keep track of where it's going.

DavidTO

I have stopped using a mouse with the MBP. I got used to the trackpad, the 2 finger scrolling, the right click, all of it, and just find that in the situations that I'm on my MBP, using a mouse is more of a pain than using the trackpad. It's just too convenient. It's always there, I don't have to worry about a surface to use it on. It's just what I need.

I would, instead, spend my money on this.

SloYerRoll

TO has a really good point.
Shortcut keys are your friend as well.
I'm sure Windoze has as many shortcut keys as Macs do.