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Title: The best mice
Post by: bigpook on Wed, 31 December 2008, 13:58:26

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2337646,00.asp

Original slashdot link here:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/31/1636211

Title: The best mice
Post by: bigpook on Wed, 31 December 2008, 14:14:42

sorry, I posted first then read the link. Its pretty weak.

Title: The best mice
Post by: lodc on Wed, 31 December 2008, 14:43:05

yes, it is weak.  they did a keyboard "story" a few days ago that was equally crappy.  

they should really call these things "the best mice/keyboards that our local office depot had in stock when we decided to generate web traffic by making some lame articles and posting them to slashdot". whatever.

i was happy to see several people in the comments of their keyboard article mentioned geekhack.org and some of the great keyboards discussed here.

Title: The best mice
Post by: bigpook on Wed, 31 December 2008, 14:53:54

yeah, I posted that keyboard story here also, sigh.

Title: The best mice
Post by: Therac-25 on Wed, 31 December 2008, 22:05:31

They don't even mention these guys:

http://www.contourdesign.com/perfit.htm (http://www.contourdesign.com/perfit.htm)

Title: The best mice
Post by: lodc on Thu, 01 January 2009, 07:55:23

Quote from: webwit;16872

I don't know a lot about mice as I do about keyboards. So what are the real best ones? Has anyone tried any of those on their list? How's the perfit?

lots of people have talked about their favorites here:

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=4

i think "the best" mice/trackballs are even more a matter of personal taste than keyboards.

Title: The best mice
Post by: D-EJ915 on Thu, 01 January 2009, 22:12:29

The 3M stick thing has been around forever, that's for sure; design hasn't changed at all either.