Mouse survey

The Logitech cordless optical in my hand right now has a recharger built into the receiver on the desk. If I plug it in when I go home or go to lunch, it runs all day. It also has a red/green led on top that tells me when it needs a charge (like right now since I forgot to cradle it last night.).

Optical mice are female; no balls.

I like the Logitech cordless optical mice too. I have a cordless "Laser" on the desk upstairs, an MX1000 on my Linux system, and "mini" mouse for portable use (and an MX700 as a spare).

most inportant mouse feature: teflon slip pads on the underside. second most important feature: flexible cable.

Bye. Jasen

To each their own. Personally i prefer trackballs (i like tablets as well, being able to mix relative and absolute positioning at will is very handy) over mice. I get about two months battery life out of my (logitech) wireless trackball. For serious CAD work a flat plane digitizer (overgrown tablet) (desktop digitizer, possibly writ large {3 feet X 4 feet}) (or for

Some of the parameters may be setable from the (installable) driver. Speed, acceleration (and its occaisonally attendant overshoot) should be controllable.

Mine likes plain white paper best.

Is the pad badly worn and glossy? I use a "Typewriter" brush to rough up the surface on my mouse pad with the wrist rest every couple months. DEad skin builds up on the surface where my little finger and thumb slip down and ride on the surface.

On a cordless mouse?

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I was thinking of trying a tablet for schematic work. $107CAD for 4"x5" inches ..yikes !!!!

Just came back from Costco, picked up a Logitech LX5 Wireless for $15. Couldn't believe they were this cheap. Works well, sleep recovery looks like 100msec, probably less. Accuracy isn't stellar but ok for schematics and stuff.

As to parameters, the plug-and-play off the USB pod loaded a lot of stuff. But who knows where to. It ain't in the control panel, it ain't on the desktop, it ain't among the programs. I'd like to slow it down, it's a bit nervous for CAD work. Oh well, I'll figure it out. Some day.

Mine seems to prefer the Deutsch Aerospace pad.

On a sunny day (Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:09:34 GMT) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Mine works OK on my formica desk. No need to use a mouse pad with an optical mouse. Do not eat sandwiches on same desk, or at least clean after it.

I'm a longtime Trackman Wheel user as well. Recently got the wireless model, but the store never seems to stock it.

Which CAD programs work with them?

My wife would have fits if I did that because it'll scratch up the desk. Ok, mine is real wood (walnut, but a few decades old). And I never eat in the office except for a couple of pears in the afternoon.

Went to three stores yesterday because I needed one quickly. Zilch. So I had to go with a mouse instead and all they had was the wireless version. Must admit that I begin to like it. Can be tucked into a drawer when not needed, keeps the office tidy.

What amazes me is that it sold for $15 and this was not a firesale price. So it couldn't have been more than $5 in production, pod, mouse, blister pack, CD and all. Even had a PS/2 adapter. The child in me wants to pry it open. What I wonder is whether you can use more than one within the same range. Ok, range is only 5ft or so but still.

I just bought DesignCAD 3D. The docs mention tablets as input devices.

On a sunny day (Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:44:20 GMT) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Formica is wonderfull stuff, I have had this desk since 1983, done outragious things on it (including soldering etc), still flat and scratch free. Top just looks new. Mind you it was not new in 1983, came from a sale of the city of Amsterdam office stuff IIRC. Actually _coffee_ is the perfect cleaner for it, somehow the small particles in the coffee scrape the dirt of. It sees lots of coffee. :-)