IronSunsetscales wrote: ↑That's odd to say the least, the only 'bug' I tend to find with them is that when you stop scrolling, the page tends to move a tiny bit further after you stop scrolling … And ofcourse turning the DPI setting right up on the older generations. That's odd to say the least, the only 'bug' I tend to find with them is that when you stop scrolling, the page tends to move a tiny bit further after you stop scrolling, but even that is a rare occasion for me. I'd buy Dell if I could - their optical mice are dependable. They don't do anything exciting though :( My IntelliMouse Opticals are starting to fade (the one at home can now freewheel!) but they're all around 6 years old or some such and I don't want something that will only go for six months! One brand with nice ambidextrous 5+ button mice is Roccat, but I would have to forego that hammer action because gamer mice are largely trash and all disintegrate in short order. I have my Mac set to open Exposé with one of the extra buttons. Button 6 could be the thing in Windows 10 that shows all the windows. I am loath to ever install drivers from gamer brands, but I'd really like 6+ buttons and Microsoft stop at 5. It's got five buttons, with 4-drag bound to mouse gestures using StrokesPlus. It's ambidextrous, and I use it with my right hand at home, and left hand at work. I am sorely tempted to smash this fetid piece of garbage to smithereens with a hammer if I manage to replace it, but what would I replace it with? I replicated the motion event bug on a brand new, out of the box Windows 7 Dell PC! Yet, oddly, nobody else ever, ever has these problems! I don't understand it. They affect my work PC (10), previous work PC (XP), home PC (10), previous home PC (XP), and other PCs I've used. These bugs occur in Windows XP, 7, 8 and 10, and affect both the black and white versions. (There's a bonus bug if you install IntelliPoint, but that has the only wheel acceleration implementation I've ever found that works well.) Motion events are also duplicated spuriously upon button up/down events - subtle, but selecting part of an image fails constantly as the mouse-up is preceded by a false motion event cloned from the one that last occurred. The ring buffer or whatever it is keeps transmitting spurious wheel events (duplicates of prior events), at random, but frequently usually just one event, a few seconds after the last wheel rotation (or immediately if you try clicking) and if you need to rotate the wheel to undo this, you can get into click–rotate war with the mouse. No bugs in the Microsoft Comfort Mouse 4500, but the rubber grip disintegrates and the scroll wheel is completely unusable. 27 years since I discovered mice, to have bugs in their mice. That is, the stuff that makes a mouse tick isn't in hardware, but in software! Hence entrusting the likes of Microsoft to make a mouse yielded the only brand I've ever encountered in the ca. I figured that mice were all TTL or something, but no, mice will surely be microcontroller-based, the same as keyboards. Learning about keyboards taught me why the IntelliMouse series sucks so much. IronSunsetscales wrote: ↑My mouse of choice is usually the good old Microsoft Intellimouse series. Can be tiring at first until you get used to it. (left button dragging occasionally bugs out.). I bought a backup just in case, but the newer model has a different battery type and seems to have worse battery life. still a good week or two between charges. It's still running for 10 years, although each charge seems to last shorter and shorter now. Always get snagged on something, and cable disrupts motion.
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