What laser mouse exactly?
Steelseries Xai with 1600dpi, midsense I would say.
i would recommend a wallace & gromit mouse pad.
those mice can track on anything from asphalt to a dog (don't think it would work too well with my cat though; it would probably kill it).
The mousepad I have is like... old as my 300PL (1997), I've been using it since I first got a computer. It's kind of worn down but after all those years, it still works nicely. It's just a cloth surface on top of rubber.
So, get one that's CLOTH, they work really nice. Last for years and years and years and years...
Hell even some low sens gamers admit that while cloth is nice and all some hard pads while not being the size they require do give better results over the cloth.
But it might not be conducive to his style of play. Cloth is usually for lower sensitivities so they sweep their arm across the pad and use the cloths friction to control. A good example is RTS, cloths are usually not used not because you can't control the sensitivity, it's just too much friction for such small, quick movements required becomes fatiguing. No matter how smooth/slick your cloth pad is, it is nothing compared to a hard pad.
While for high sens they need the slickness due to the smaller movement. Even though hard pads can have friction they have a level of speed not usually associated with cloth for wrist/finger movements.
Hell even some low sens gamers admit that while cloth is nice and all some hard pads while not being the size they require do give better results over the cloth.
Hmmm, I love cloth pads myself but they just don't deliver good enough glide and are usually hard to keep clean.
If your mouse is any good it'll track fine.
I dunno. The humor value wears out after a while, like watching Sarah Palin or George Bush talk.
But not when Joe Biden talks, Mr. Liberal. He says even funnier stuff than Bush.
I use the Steelseries Icemat glass mousepad for some years, its the best pad I ever used (Ratpadz, Everglide, BlahBlah) really...
Zero wear on its texture (of course, glass is very hard) and also zero problems with my Logitech MX518 (optical) and G5 / G9 (laser)!
My old ball mice don't even need mouse pads. But the laser mice seem to be picky about some surfaces. They don't track at all on the metal computer desks at work.
Go to an art store and buy a huge cutting mat for $10.
Screw the gaming companies. If your mouse is any good it'll track fine.Show Image(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11305&stc=1&d=1277099857)
I like your thinking...might have to go do this now. I do have a nice hard surface mat I got from Cooler Master with a case. Pretty small though.
...I swear I'll stop quoting you now Rip.