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Vanquish · 03-02-2004, 06:19 AM

I donno guys, have all of you that prefer a Ball mouse over optical used a high quality version of both mice? Back when optical first came out, yeah there was a huge difference. But now only the Razor Boomslang can rival the presision of a MX500 or an Intellimouse Explorer v3.0. I used to swear by my old Logitech Ball mouse, but when I made the switch to the Logitech Dual Optical (and then the MX500 when it was released), I will now never go back to Ball. The biggest problem with optical is getting the correct surface to use it on. Oh and BTW Redjake, I am 99% sure that it was the Wireless causing you your problems, and not the Optical fact. I have used both Wireless and Wired, and I can say for a fact that wireless gives you a very nasty "choppy" feel in games, especially FPS.

Lasereth: I am suprised that the mouse you used did this. Mine (MX500) may do this a couple mm above the pad, but nothing more, and this is less then if I had to lift the ball mouse up and move it (cuz the ball usually falls down a few mm when lifted).

For me, I believe it is personal preferance, and not that one is more presice or anything. Some people do prefer the "feel" of the ball mouse theres something about the resistance of the ball moving on the pad that gives you a sort of feel I know. Anyway I digress. And to put my 2cents in about the PS/2 or USB thing,

I always use USB, mainly because I can remove the mouse and plug a new one in without much hassle. USB uses a tiny bit of system resources, but it shouldn't be noticable at all. I would say that until mice for USB 2.0 come out with insaine presision, either or will suffice quite nicely.

03-02-2004, 06:19 AM	#12 (permalink)
Vanquish Insane Location: Truro, Nova Scotia	I donno guys, have all of you that prefer a Ball mouse over optical used a high quality version of both mice? Back when optical first came out, yeah there was a huge difference. But now only the Razor Boomslang can rival the presision of a MX500 or an Intellimouse Explorer v3.0. I used to swear by my old Logitech Ball mouse, but when I made the switch to the Logitech Dual Optical (and then the MX500 when it was released), I will now never go back to Ball. The biggest problem with optical is getting the correct surface to use it on. Oh and BTW Redjake, I am 99% sure that it was the Wireless causing you your problems, and not the Optical fact. I have used both Wireless and Wired, and I can say for a fact that wireless gives you a very nasty "choppy" feel in games, especially FPS. Lasereth: I am suprised that the mouse you used did this. Mine (MX500) may do this a couple mm above the pad, but nothing more, and this is less then if I had to lift the ball mouse up and move it (cuz the ball usually falls down a few mm when lifted). For me, I believe it is personal preferance, and not that one is more presice or anything. Some people do prefer the "feel" of the ball mouse theres something about the resistance of the ball moving on the pad that gives you a sort of feel I know. Anyway I digress. And to put my 2cents in about the PS/2 or USB thing, I always use USB, mainly because I can remove the mouse and plug a new one in without much hassle. USB uses a tiny bit of system resources, but it shouldn't be noticable at all. I would say that until mice for USB 2.0 come out with insaine presision, either or will suffice quite nicely.