New year, new mouse
gosh, I really need to blog more often, eh? Well its a new year, so maybe…nope, this ain’t gonna be one of those ‘hop on the I am posting my new years resolutions bandwagon’ posts!
Ok, so, I’m a dude in IT. Naturally I dig electronics. That said, I have a really slow acceleration on uptake 
So, I don’t have a iPod, iPhone, well nor a Mac for that matter. I did finally break down and buy a wireless mouse. After snooping around the net for months I finally went to a store to get physical as it were. The top three mice to look at on my list were all Logitech brands: MX Revolution, VX Revolution, and the Nano. When up front and in person, the Nano is too small for daily use. Sure would be great for a traveling lappy user though. The store was out of MX revolutions, so I snagged the VX. After two days I was convinced it was too small. So I hit a Fry’s and snagged the MX Revolution. Holy Mouse Traps Batman! This thing is expensive! Well, considering its the first mouse I purchased in ~8 years, I was a daily user of a 3-button Logitech forever, $99 doesn’t sounds so bad.
The mouse is totally schweeeet! Glides nice and has a good weight to it. Kind of heavy actually, but to me that’s good. It has ample buttons including a thumb button that looks like a wheel, it has three positions. Oh, and speaking of the wheel, interesting. It has a auto sensing switch that based on the speed at which you are spinning the wheel switches between freewheelin or coastin. Odd way to explain it, eh? Basically it goes from a wheel that has positions as you roll it to none. Why is this cool? In freewheelin mode you can traverse say 50 pages of a Word doc in seconds. You can set the threshold of the switch in the SetPoint tools.
The cons? Price! When you press one of the two switches on the left side used by your thumbs the mouse can literally lift up a bit. The other thing, seems the SetPoint software is conflicting with Dreamweaver, which I use minimally anyhoo.
ok….next up is a keyboard. Any suggestions? No split keyboards for me, I can’t touch type. A couple of reasons why I can’t, but that’s another post.
peas
I use Logitech Wave keyboard - a bit customized feel, but if you ever consider MacBook or mac - seemless switch between windows and mac. As far as portable mice (ie bluetooth and light but usable ) - v470 has much better control then all nano, apple and msft ones.
@anatole - I was looking at bluetooth mice. Problem is I’m scared of bluetooth devices, well scared to buy them. I’ve had no good experience with bluetooth and Vista here. From trying to work out some issues, I have found bluetooth can be spotty with some devices and well, not seemingly standardised. Of course might just be the microsoft junk as usual. I have bluetooth on my dell here and can’t use it for more than headsets due to driver issues, lack of them actually. Also, my blackberry bluetooth seems impaired due to implementation it appears.
I’m currently looking at this keyboard: http://www.btc.com.tw/english/2-7-25keyboard.htm#6300
has scissor type switches and laptop feel. Might buy one and try it for a few days.
bugger! This mouse is going Bluetooth now. Even with my lost faith in Bluetooth, would have been even kewler.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/31/logitechs-mx-revolution-goes-bluetooth-at-the-fcc/