wireless mouse

[HeartBreak]

The only thing you have to be careful about with a wireless setup is if there are anyone around you with a CB radio (most wireless keyboards/mice are on 27mhz), RC gear, or anything else that uses 27mhz. Always keep a backup setup just in case. Such equipment can interfere with your computer, causing you to not be able to control your computer. It's annoying, but not fatal (thankfully).

If you look around, you can find some wireless setups on 2.4ghz, which gets around the limitations.

Now, that out of the way, I personally use a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0. It's wireless, optical, and has more than enough buttons on it to keep me busy. It also gets great battery life (runs on two AAA's, and they last almost 6 months with constant use). The software for it also includes a battery level gauge, and alerts you when the batteries are getting low.

I got it for $10 from a yard sale. Not bad for a neutered rat.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

That brought up a memory. My grandmother has always been into sewing, and has had several upholstery and quilting shops. She's from the country, and only went to school one year in the third grade (I might also add that she worked like a lil turk, and sold her mini storage business for a little over 2 million last year). Anyway, about 10 years ago she bought some new embroidery machines, and they all used the computer to get the stick and design from. I always thought it was hillarious because she would always call it the "rat". To this day, she still can't remember to use mouse for more than a day, and it's a rat the next day.

 

[Webbage]

I still use wired keyboards and mice, apart from the wireless Apple keyboard I have for my Mac Pro (which I use mostly as a DVD/Front Row remote!). I hate using Wireless all the time. Damn things go dead right when you don't want them to. Yes the batteries last a long time in Microsoft Mice, but they also die at exactly the moment you least want them to

I use a USB Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 on my work and home computer, Intellimouse mice always have fitted my hand well, I can't get on with Logitech mice, they do not fit my hand right. I have square palms and long fingers, seems to be a type of hand not many people can get a mouse right for :\

 

[alpinehyperlite]

I just use my laptop now, and with the touchpad mouse, i have it all at my tips.

 

[Webbage]

Trackpads irritate the hell out of me. I use a mouse even on my laptop.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

No when I'm curled up in my vibrating recliner naked with my laptop sitting on my knees. lol No where to put the mouse.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

if you had an optical mouse, you could crank the speed way up, stretch out your scrotum, and you'd have an instant mouse pad. If it's large enough you could use, er nevermind, but mine is smaller than the optical eye so I have a hard time. Alpine, with a wireless optical mini mouse you can use the arm on the recliner, that's what I do (when the sack gets too sweaty)

 

[HeartBreak]

Oh man, you owe me a new keyboard on that image Charlie..... uke:

 

[alpinehyperlite]

Ummm, wow.

 

[Rolex]

It's gonna' take me a VERY long time to erase that image from my memory.
Optical mice do not work on anything smooth and shiny, like the dining room table or a sheet of glass. Color doesn't matter.
I'm using the Belkin pad with the gel wrist cushion, and it never skips a beat.
This is the Microsoft laser 6000 KB/Rat combination. A few days ago a red led on it started blinking slowly letting me know that the batts were running low. 3 days later I changed them, even though the mouse was still behaving. Never had a problem, and it will never die without warning.

 

[Webbage]

That all depends on you taking notice of the flashing lights. Maybe they are more obvious on newer mice, I did have a wireless one 3 years ago

I found Microsoft mice are not very good on anything bright red. Something to do with them using red light and not being able to pick up changes in reflection?

Anyway I never have the batteries to hand for the mouse or keyboard when I need them. If they made a Microsoft desktop package with a dock you rested the keyboard and mouse on and LiPo batteries I'd be more than happy to use it. Logitech make them but as I previously intimated, me 'n Logitech mice do not get on.

 

[HeartBreak]

Yup, and I have a Wireless Laser mouse by Micro Innovations (Walmart). It has an LED on top that flashes when the mouse is moved if the batteries are below 10%.

 

[h8z2luze]

LMAO you guys are to much! I have the logitech G5 gaming mouse it has adjustable speed right on the mouse and adjustable weights and so forth its not wireless though they do make a wireless version called the G7 I love my mouse (or rat?) I also ust use a regular mouse pad I'm not cool like charlie