So the lackluster resolution and constant skips and jumps from misreading the wood grain of my tabletop as well as the locking up of the scroll-ball every other month finally got to me, and I’ve relegated my Mighty Mouse to a drawer.
I don’t mind paying top-dollar for hardware, but I expect that investment to pay off in the long run. So when I went through this exact same phase a while back, I threw down for a wireless Logitech MX Revolution.
Now I should also say that I could never see eye-to-eye with OS X’s default mouse acceleration curve, and when five years ago I bought my first Mac, it was one of the first things I had to change. Luckily there is a remedy for this hardcoded brainfart, namely Steermouse.
And the problem with the MX Revolution, other than some minor bugs (the wheel sometimes resets itself, under intense processor duress, the signal will jitter a lot), was that I simply couldn’t find an acceleration setting I was comfortable with. So I went back to using the Mighty Mouse for a while.
But not any more.
Now, granted, the choice of acceleration curves is about as different from person to person as the choice of mate, but nonetheless, I finally ended up with some settings that remove the distance from my hand to the screen. Aaaah. What a difference a curve makes.
So if you’re using Steermouse as well, maybe this will come in handy for you. If not, then at least I’m sure future me will thank me for saving this for him:
I’ll leave comments open.
Comments work, Michael. =]
Differences between curves and speeds have been one of the reasons why I never got along with Windows — it’s all too jittery and jumpy.
I hadn’t heard of SteerMouse before, but I gather it’s in the same league as USB Overdrive.
Didn’t Logitech supply a mouse setup program, btw?
Yeah, I think the mouse came with a CD of some sort, but I have little trust in applications shipped with hardware. Somehow they always try to outdo themselves, instead of simply getting the basics right (which is the hardest part anyway).
hehe… right thing to do, not installing logitech’s own software, it’s aweful.
Been a logitech guy for as long as I remember, cool looking hardware, horrible software. Never use it… try it out for a second every time I get something new from Logitech, just to see if they by some miracle have improved… but they never have.
Welcome to the Logitech MX Revolution family I first got this at work and I had to get one for home. I’ve installed the software (not the one that came with the cd but the latest version from the website) and it works great. I’ve setup all the buttons just the way I like them.
I would say give the software a try, you never know…
I use laptops almost exclusively and since using Apple MacBooks I find their trackpads are superb. The multi-touch stuff is the icing on the cake. Now even on PC laptops I prefer to use the touchpads (though they are inferior to Apple’s IMO) and use the keyboard if lots of buttons are required. I do kind of miss middle-click though ….