Mouse Curve Acceleration

I'm not sure if you're a new Mac user, but quite often people who are either new to Mac's or only use the trackpad on a notebook have difficulties in using a mouse. The mouse movement is very different to Windows (and in my opinion, inferior).

http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html

Try USB Overdrive...it has settings which allow you to adjust advanced variables on the mouse. There are settings on the website to adjust the mouse to make it as Windows-like as possible.

I think the problem people have with the mouse is that at slow and small movements it moves with no acceleration, whereas acceleration kicks in to 100% very quickly upon a jerky movement, but the mouse stops dead immediately upon stopping movement. Very accurate, but not very usable.

 

My favorite topic: how to improve mouse acceleration curve.

http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

 

Well.. You're right. It will probably never be exactly the same as in Windows. Like many things when switching to OSX, you either adapt, whine constantly, or go back to Windows. It's your choice.

 

I'm one of those people who doesn't understand how someone else can be bothered by the different acceleration curves on Mac OS X and Windows - I use both platforms regularly, and don't really notice a difference in mouse movement between the two.

That said, there is a hidden setting you can use to tweak the mouse behavior in ways not possible with System Preferences, and doesn't require spending money either. All that's needed is a little Terminal know-how and usage of the defaults command.

Linky: http://www.macworld.com/article/49691/2006/03/turbomice.html

 

BS. Set your first value to 1.3 and second value to 300. Those are the default Windows curve settings.

Guys, seriously, hardware is hardware.

 

Where do I set these multiple values?

 

I 'm guessing you need one of those pieces of software.

I found the initial switch to the mac mouse a bit strange at first, but now I prefer it. The trackpad - well, now with multitouch, I prefer it over a mouse!