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April 20th, 2004 21:00

Best mousepad for optical mouse?

At Best Buy I saw some mouspads that were marketed as "optical mouse mousepads." Is it really necessary to get one of these? I use a basic Dell mousepad right now with my Kensington Pocket Mouse Pro Wireless and it seems to work fine.

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April 21st, 2004 05:00

Optical mouse performance depend on it's senser.so different senser may with different mousepad.On my Experience,the important point of mousepad is it's texture(deep texture),color(not similar as senser),material,ect

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April 21st, 2004 06:00

Yeah but the Microsoft optical mouse displays let you move it over a mirror...and it still works flawlessly!

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April 21st, 2004 08:00

Yes, i agree with you.I test a IE3.0 mouse on a cd,flawless.I think the performance difference because of the firmware difference and the senser scan mode difference.

 

You know,Once i tried about one hundred pic of mousepad with same pattern(basic Dell mousepad),one model mouse perform good on some mousepads,and another mousegood on some other mousepads.but mousepad that all the mouse work fine is that with deep ruleless texture,dim materical,

In my opinion,I would rather use a white paper as my mouse

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April 22nd, 2004 00:00

I use the fUnc mouse pad.  When I first received my laptop I was using a Dell mouse pad, but the cursor/pointer would constantly skip.  I think this was due to the fact that the pad was reflective.  Since I've  bought this pad everything is smooth wether its gaming or the occassional web surfing.

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April 30th, 2004 05:00



@TheGSRGuy wrote:
Yeah but the Microsoft optical mouse displays let you move it over a mirror...and it still works flawlessly!


Ok, now go buy a mousepad with a gel surface in blue or purple and see what happens. 

Stay away from the gel mousepads, especially the ones with bright colors.  They will not work well with most laser mice and you will get disappearing pointers and pointers jumping into the corners and disappearing.  The only way I could get my pointer to appear was to lift the mouse up off the table and then put it back down again. 

This is just a simple mousepad conflict and nothing more.  Stay away from Gel and go with dark cloth.

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May 11th, 2004 07:00

Very impressive (if you can get it to work) the Microsoft Optical Wheelmouse is the only mouse I could never get to work on my Inspiron 8200 - and no answers from Dell.....

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

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