mouse movement in macosx

The behavior of your pointer is very customizable via System Preferences. I suggest playing with the settings to find one you prefer.

 

I prefer the Mac's "cursor handling" over Windows. Whenever I use a Windows machine anymore, the first thing I notice is that the mouse handles poorly. Even after adjusting it in Control Panel, it's just not the same.

I find I am much more accurate in OSX.

 

I noticed it as well when I first started using Apples. The mouse seems to move a lot slower, and there's no way to accelerate it up to windows speed. After a while I just got used to it and no longer like windows' twitchiness.

 

I know exactly what you mean, since I use Windows and Mac OS X regularly. The difference you are noticing is the way mouse acceleration is handled. One of the two OSes seems more "fine-grained" than the other (to me at least) at detecting the speed you're moving the mouse and adjusting how fast the cursor moves on the screen accordingly.