Meeces !

[throdgrain]

Ok I know this should go into hardware but im going to buy a new mouse tomorrow morning and i wondered what everyone used. Ive had a ms cordless mouse for ages but it seems pretty vague and its bloody big, plus uses lots of batteries.
Any suggestions? An optical one sounds good, but any make or model ?
I play mostly cs and DoD btw , in case you didnt know

 

[Embattle]

Argh cordless are utter crap for games

I love my http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/ie_info.asp

 

[old.Fweddy]

Microsoft intellimouse explorer.
looks good, extra buttons and if someone's beatin you on a LAN game you can shine the light in there eyes and blind them

does anyone else think its funny that microsoft make better mice than they do software?

 

[throdgrain]

So thats 2 votes for intellimouse explorer ??
Come on u lot more more !

 

[old.Y-it-Earp]

i have the intellieye optical too. although im left handed and this is a right handed mouse :/

been using it for over a year tho and still i can 0wn j00

 

[Ono]

My own personal experience of the M$ Opti Intellieye is that it is SHIT for playing games like CS.

I have had mine for 18 months and stopped using it for online play about 12 months ago and gone back to a ball mouse.


The sensitivity is really really crap - try doing a fast 180 turn on CS or going for a precise headshot - it's crap.


Lots of buttons and shit, but crap for FPS's.

 

[throdgrain]

Aha a dissenting voice Thing is, I is left handed, do these things come r/h only then ?
This ball mouse btw is winding me up and has to go, but what for ?

 

[old.Fweddy]

if your lefrt handed you could try this one:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/io_info.asp

i find that the intellimouse's performance depends a lot on what surface you use it on. if you find something with a good texture it'll be fine.

 

[throdgrain]

Cheers I spotted the phrase left or right handed in your link ta
Hope bloody-pc-world have one, as I only live quarter of a mile from there and I think ill pick one up on the way to work .
Many thanks all

 

[old.youngstar]

i've got the microsoft IntelliMouse Optical and left or right handed. Bought it in Staples in Crawley when i went home for Xmas 24.99.

sometimes goes a bit screwy but then don't most Optical mice

 

[Ono]

You'll regret getting one.










/probably.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I bought a MS Intellimouse Explorer... However i wanr you, you'd be better off getting it from Amazon or somewhere. They had it for ~£30 i think, but i thought with P+P at like £7, it would be no cheaper, so i went in to town...

Well Nottingham isn't really a small city, but i ended up paying £50
Had to get it from Game. Nowhere else had anything good, apart from the small Dixons on lister gate, which had a normal intellimouse(non ergenomic or whatever), for 40quid. I decided that if i bought the cheaper one, people would think i was a lefty, so i went back to game and payed £50...

However, on topic: The mouse rocks. Hell, X has good drivers for it, so it works better that alot of 3rd party mice. Thanks Bill, thank you for giving me a high quality mouse to use under Linux!

 

[throdgrain]

Originally posted by youngstar
i've got the microsoft IntelliMouse Optical and left or right handed. Bought it in Staples in Crawley when i went home for Xmas 24.99.

sometimes goes a bit screwy but then don't most Optical mice

wierd, i'll be going to pcw or staples, in crawley its a bloody small world sometimes

Ono i respect ur opinion m8 but you seem to be outvoted o well u can say i told u so i suppose !

 

[old.youngstar]

Originally posted by throdgrain


wierd, i'll be going to pcw or staples, in crawley its a bloody small world sometimes

So they tell me. I here that Telewest has bought the local cable Company. So are you gonna be joining the 512k club?

 

[PR.]

The 512k club?! thats soooo last year

I'm still pondering the 1mb f@t p!p3

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

Still use the mouse I got with meh PC.

Dunno what it is though...

Doh

 

[PR.]

I used the mouse came with my PC for a year or so then bought the MS Basic wheel mouse... wow what a difference

I then got the optical mouse cos the basic mouse was to small for my hands

My MS Standard Mouse (ergonomic one without wheel) is now 7 years old and is still working brilliant with daily use

/edit Oh I got a wireless Intellimouse for work and always have problems with it falling asleep in the middle of use

If only the new MS Intellimouse corded had the same design as the wireless one

 

[old.Vanguard]

Razerzone



Most kickass gaming mouse I have ever used...

I love mine... a bit pricy, but worth it


Retail is $100 US..

 

[caLLous]

Originally posted by Embattle
Argh cordless are utter crap for games

I love my http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/ie_info.asp

 

[old.Jas]

I have one of these with a one of these

Bloody brilliant they are too

 

[Recoil101]

meeces

Personally I use a Logitech IFeel with aneverglide mousepad and bungee, tho the bungee is broked and held together with sticky tape... nice mouse tho

 

[old.Explosive23]

Originally posted by Y-it-Earp
i have the intellieye optical too. although im left handed and this is a right handed mouse :/

been using it for over a year tho and still i can 0wn j00

Heh, I've always used a right-handed mouse.. using a left handed one would just be weird.

 

[Trem]

I had a cordless Genius mouse and it sucked in CS, the problem was it had a power saving feature, so when you camped it fooking turned itself off, so you had to move or click it so you could activate it before you could move.I have a Genius optical mouse(with cord)and i quite like it..........a little........nah its shit, its to big and the light keeps me awake.Throddy if you want this cordless mouse i will post it ya, but by the time you read this you've probably bought one, ah well.

 

[throdgrain]

Originally posted by youngstar


So they tell me. I here that Telewest has bought the local cable Company. So are you gonna be joining the 512k club?

I may do m8, or I may just keep me isdn just to annoy people

 

[throdgrain]

Originally posted by Tremor
I had a cordless Genius mouse and it sucked in CS, the problem was it had a power saving feature, so when you camped it fooking turned itself off, so you had to move or click it so you could activate it before you could move.I have a Genius optical mouse(with cord)and i quite like it..........a little........nah its shit, its to big and the light keeps me awake.Throddy if you want this cordless mouse i will post it ya, but by the time you read this you've probably bought one, ah well.

Morning m8

Yeah I ve bought a optical intellimouse just now . Cheers for the offer though, I appreciate it .
Does anyone know if the usb or ps2 port is best ?

 

[Sar]

YEW

ESS

BEE

\o/

 

[throdgrain]

Ta Sar

 

[Sar]

Nps, USB is far better cos it's a damn sight smoother than a PS/2 port (3x the sample rate). Plus that and you can hot plug USB devices which is fucking handy, especially if like me you're running:

Mouse
Keyboard
Scanner
Digital Camera
Wacom Graphic Tablet
M$ Gamevoice
Potentially a printer soon too

All off of 4 USB ports.

 

[*Exor*]

I use a Mitsumi PS2 2 button ball mouse. It costs about 4 quid from dabs (if they even still do them).

It's the most accurate and smooth mouse I have ever used in my life, and it stands up to almighty beatings aswell. I'm comparing this to mice which cost up to about £40, using all the types of port available.

Couple this with a huge, soft, squishy, "mesh" mousematt (cost you about 1 quid), "PS2 Rate it" to 200Mhz and you have the most superb gaming setup I've used.

It's also symetrical so will work for left and right handed people.

Ok, it doesn't have a wheel, which would be nice for windows, but I can live without that.

Anyone that spends more than £10 on a mouse/matt combo is an imbecile, and anyone that NEEDS more than 2 buttons also falls into this category aswell.

Anyone who buys these "pro gamer" mouse matts is the greatest fucking tosser alive.

 

[Sar]

I have a 5 button IE Optical (£40) and an Everglide Gigantica mousemat (£13).

Pleased to meet ya

I could never use a mouse without a wheel, cos I use the wheel a hell of a lot, not only in windows but in games as well. Ditto the extra buttons, cos I have those bound to keys which is handy for general windows work (IE Thumb button = Enter).

And I use the mat cos it's good for gaming and the optical works well on it. AND it's good for years, unlike those shitty cloth mats, of which I have gone through countless amounts, before getting the Everglide.