Recommended mice

General Forums Off-topic Chat
1

Hi, I sold my mouse and now I’m looking for a new one. I didn’t know where to post this so I posted it as off-topic…

What mouse do you recommend for use with blender? I would prefer one with a wire, eventhough I use a laptop, I prefer a quick connection (yes I know logitech has a very fast wireless connection, but it (mx1000) has a large reciever and their laptop mice are much to small).

I was thinking about Apple’s but the scroll-ball is very (almost impossible) to configure within linux, and blender without scrollwheel nor middle mouse button doesn’t lure me.

So, what mice do you use?
Thanks in advance!

2

I use the logitech g5. I like it, and i bought it because my other mouse kept locking up. It has built in sensitivity adjusters.

Just my 2 cents of rambling.

3

Well, I like it, but I think it’s a bit overdone with adjustable weights and certainly since the software isn’t working on linux I loose all the advantage of adjustable dpi.
Or is this a hardware thing like the mx518? (Or sub-hardware, like you need to configure in windows but it is written to the device once you’ve done so).

4

microsofit intellimouse or intellimouse explorer… nothing fancy, more than sufficently functional

the newfangled “clickless scrolls” and “sideways tilts” seem useless to me [and annoying], so I’ve not bought a mouse with one.

5

Well, the handy thing about linux is that you can make the buttons do different things. I could make the tilt do a loop-cut or something like that. I still have to look into the compatibility with the mouse, because microsoft sometimes make their hardware incompatible with better (:D) OSs