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geekhack Community => Input Devices => Topic started by: Hamshank on Mon, 26 December 2011, 00:42:05

Title: Vertical Mice
Post by: Hamshank on Mon, 26 December 2011, 00:42:05

Has anyone had any experiences with the DXT Precision Mouse or the Evoluent Vertical Mouse 4? They both come in lefty and righty models. I'm a gamer and surf the web.

Title: Vertical Mice
Post by: hashbaz on Mon, 26 December 2011, 01:34:25

I use an Evoluent at work.  It's great for the basic stuff I do there: web, text editing, simple 3D geometry manipulation.  I can't imagine controlling it precisely enough for gaming though.

Title: Vertical Mice
Post by: Input Nirvana on Mon, 26 December 2011, 03:19:29

I had an Evoluent 3. Great, high quality, feature rich, feather-touch control product, I recommend it. Unfortunately it's just not for me, I'm not a mouse kinda guy. Touchpads and a rollermouse is all I like to use.

Title: Vertical Mice
Post by: Findecanor on Mon, 26 December 2011, 11:34:55

I used an Evoluent 3 at my previous workplace. Revision 4 was too new when I got it.
It is all right, once you get used to it. It locks the movement near the Y and X axes to those axes, which I suppose is supposed a feature, but it was soo annoying at the beginning.

There are more reviews of this mouse and other vertical mice all over the forum. Go search and read, if you have not already.

Title: Vertical Mice
Post by: RTbar on Mon, 26 December 2011, 13:20:05

I tried the vertical mouse 4, but I didn't like it because it felt like I was actually putting more strain on my shoulder... I am using a slmblade right now and I like it so far

Title: Vertical Mice
Post by: Hamshank on Mon, 26 December 2011, 17:32:45

Thanks for the feedback. Does that Kensington trackball work for gaming?

Title: Vertical Mice
Post by: oneproduct on Mon, 26 December 2011, 18:00:27

Quote from: Hamshank;478061

Thanks for the feedback. Does that Kensington trackball work for gaming?

It's good for casual games (often more fun than with a mouse), fine for low to medium precision/reflex/speed games, horrible in high precision/reflex/speed games

Good: Asteroids, waves, geometry wars (any simple game with a small 2D playing space)
Fine: Team fortress 2, DotA, WoW (RPG games, casual shooters)
Horrible: Battlefield, Starcraft (competitive twitch reflex games)

I use it for the good and fine categories but switch to a mouse for the horrible.

Title: Vertical Mice
Post by: Hamshank on Wed, 28 December 2011, 03:05:35

I have no ergonomic problems but I am a lefty, would getting the evoluent be stupid? Is it more of a medical thing? Overclockers said evoluent works great with games, but I am skeptical especially after your feedback.