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y2ktenchi · 05-28-2003, 04:09 AM

Optical trackball all the way. I have three Logitechs (one at work, one at home) and one Kensington (for my Mac at home).

What I love best about trackball is the reduced wrist movement. I was starting to feel the effects of too much mousing and switched to trackball and got one of those nice mouse pads with a gel wrist wrest. Best things I ever did!

I've never used an MS trackball mouse. When I have tried them at the store, I found that I preferred where the Logitech trackball was placed.

One strange problem I found, at least in Dungeon Siege. I lost the ability to use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out in the game. I only got that function back after uninstalling the Logitech software for the mouse (I don't use the Web Wheel feature so it wasn't an issue). I can still do everything I want with the mouse and I only lost the ability to use an extra feature that I never used in the first place.

Oh, yeah, and I would suggest PS2 as well. My wife's HP has a USB optical mouse and the thing can't be used until Windows XP has loaded the USB driver for it. So, even after Windows starts, there's a half minute lag where the mouse is useless.

Plus, there's the problem the other person mentioned about not being able to use USB if your OS has problems or whatever.

05-28-2003, 04:09 AM	#17 (permalink)
y2ktenchi Tilted	Optical trackball all the way. I have three Logitechs (one at work, one at home) and one Kensington (for my Mac at home). What I love best about trackball is the reduced wrist movement. I was starting to feel the effects of too much mousing and switched to trackball and got one of those nice mouse pads with a gel wrist wrest. Best things I ever did! I've never used an MS trackball mouse. When I have tried them at the store, I found that I preferred where the Logitech trackball was placed. One strange problem I found, at least in Dungeon Siege. I lost the ability to use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out in the game. I only got that function back after uninstalling the Logitech software for the mouse (I don't use the Web Wheel feature so it wasn't an issue). I can still do everything I want with the mouse and I only lost the ability to use an extra feature that I never used in the first place. Oh, yeah, and I would suggest PS2 as well. My wife's HP has a USB optical mouse and the thing can't be used until Windows XP has loaded the USB driver for it. So, even after Windows starts, there's a half minute lag where the mouse is useless. Plus, there's the problem the other person mentioned about not being able to use USB if your OS has problems or whatever. __________________ "I wrote this rhyme with a dislocated bling finger." - MF Doom Last edited by y2ktenchi; 05-28-2003 at 04:13 AM..