Does anyone still use "ball" mouses?

Wow, I don't know why you're still using that... it's like still using a typewriter.

 

I don't. I have a Bluetooth Mighty Mouse with laser tracking. I think a poll would be very effective.

Give the choices of ball, optical, laser, trackball, and ?other? I don't know if there is any other.

EDIT: Too late.

 

OMG, I could not stand those. I would always have to pop the ball out every week to clean it out or they wouldn't work quite right. 4 years ago I had enough, I bought an optical mouse and never looked back.

 

That cleaning ritual sounds familiar for the MM's scroll ball. I just rub it vigorously with a damp cloth about once a month, or when scrolling starts to get flakey.

 

Actually, I have a number of devices but my Atari ST doesn't have the ability to use a mouse with a laser.

I have a three button Kensington mouse with a ball and it works fine on my Macs but I prefer the Logitech MX 510, which uses a laser. However, the cables get in the way and cordless devices are still so-so. My trackballs work well instead.

 

on an old comp i have a stationary mouse and you move the ball with your thumb, but it runs over a serrial cable , anybody know of a usb mouse like that?

 

It's not even that much. We are probably talking a matter of cents more to make an optical mouse. I didn't know anyone made ball mice brand new anymore.

 

thank you nermal. Logitech has 4 or 5 models like it. But those ne g7 mice look so good.

 

That's how much they sell it for. How much do you think its costs to make? There's a huge difference there.

 

Well, of course. Dell isn't going to spend an extra $.04 just so thier customer can have an optical mouse.

 

yeah, I have an old ball mouse on my PC. I only use that machine for checking websites in IE, so I'll be darned if I'm going to spend any real money on it. I think I paid $9.99 for the mouse and a crappy keyboard together, and that was like 4 years ago.

 

I still have a trackball mouse that I use when I'm at my desktop at home. I want to get one of the wireless optical trackball mice that Logitech makes. I hate mousepads and the other nonsense attached to the typical mouse

 

G7 mouse kicks ass.

 

I usually try to avoid the impulse to pick up any stray mouse and see if it has balls or not.

 

I thought I would post a few interesting things I found out about mice...

The "Laser mice" are actually use a tiny pinhole camera with a red pulsing LED. My cousin and I stayed up late one christmas and figured out what they were. We think it's a gray scale camera so the picture size would be smaller and easier to deal with.

I think there are two different "ball" mice... One is an optical ball mouse the other is mechanical. The first one uses 2 small LEDs for one of the two axes to infer motion. I don't know about the mechanical one but think it had two switches in place of the small LEDs and inferred motion basically the same way in the logic.

I found the "laser" mouse work much better on darker colors. they tend to go wild on white colored mouse pads easier.

 

I am forced to use a ball mouse at school. Mainly because the school couldn't get that $10 for like 20 computers even though they got new Dells. But then I come home and am spoiled with my laser mouse and a few optical mice here and there.

 

No.

The company of a friend bought HPs and they came with PS2 ball mouse!

I got a new Logitech laser mouse for my iMac.

 

At work, I have no choice. I have a Gateway running Win98 with a ball mouse. Ridiculous...

 

dont we all