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Ask HN: What Mouse Do You Use/Suggest?
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#32Kingston Expert Mouse :- The sturdiest, healthiest most hacker friendly, RSI defending pointing device ever built. Worth their weight in gold (and they're quite heavy).
i have to totally agree on that one. i have had a very heavy tendonitis for the last three weeks. i took measures to alter the strain loads by buying a kingston expert mouse trackball (which was actually an interesting discovery: seems like everybody using a trackball knows that a mouse is an unergonomic, unhealthy device...). additionally i bought a kinesis freestyle keyboard and am very happy with both devices...
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#33Contour Perfit Optical Mouse (5 sizes righty, 4 lefty) three finger buttons, thumb-op scrollwheel + 2 thumb-op buttons.
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#34I really love the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105... It's a 5 button corded optical mouse. Some people don't like the symmetric extra buttons, but they're really awesome for web-browsing (forward and back), and in other applications too. It has great accuracy and the mouse wheel 'clicks' when scrolling (so you know how many increments you've scrolled). You…
I have this very mouse, and have for years. It's great because it's comfortable to grip and very light. A lot of mice these days are so heavy I don't know how people can use them for 8-10hrs at a time. Also, it has just enough buttons to be useful without having so many it's annoying (you don't accidentally hit them).
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#35I switched to a trackball a couple of months ago. I own the Logitech Cordless TrackMan Wheel: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/d...
It's a pretty awesome piece of hardware, big and very comfortable and with a nice touch. It uses an optical sensor so almost no cleaning is needed. Being cordless, the battery is not a problem as you're not supposed to move it around.
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#36MX510 + Steelpad QcK
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#37Is there a way to keep crud from accumulating on the low-friction pads on the bottom of my mouse? I thought that getting a Wowpad would take care of this, but it hasn't. Maybe the Surface 1030 that was mentioned solves this?
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#38I love the "IBM USB Optical Scroll Travel Wheel Mouse" (search ebay with those terms to see what I mean). $1-2 each (I buy them by the dozen and spread them around liberally to friends and family; when they wear out (scroll wheel gets sticky or clunky) I just throw them out like a used-up pencil).
Wonderful, small, responsive mouse with smooth scrolling. Works on any machine. (I use them with Macs as I'm a fanboi.)
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#39Laser is a must. It's inexpensive and is that much more reliable. Less frustration => less wrist pain. I use a G5. (If the tendon of your index finger is an issue RSI is on the way. This might be one of those cure the problem not the symptom situations.)
There's been lots of discussing on RSI, as you can imagine. Wrist curls, learn to mouse with both hands, ... Unfortunately, not an easy term to search in searchyc.com
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199493
oh, yeah, i use the new-shape wired optical logitech mouse. $19, fits both hands pretty well. The only thing is cursor accelerates/scrolls funny in OS X, so i use the mighty mouse, which i'm not too fond of.
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#40I absolutely love my logitech MX Revolution, except it's for right handed mousers (I like using both). I use a razer copperhead for gaming. To be honest, I prefer my tablet or the touchpad on my laptop. Feels more natural and comfortable.
+1 on the MX revolution. I've tried just about everything and they really are the best (Mac user, BTW, don't get me started on the Mighty Mouse.)
Hah. I'm a Mac user too. You couldn't pay me to use a Mighty Mouse. I can't believe someone would honestly be willing to use it because it's so uncomfortable.