Brian Ortiz

This is my mouse:

As you can see from the worn spots, I’ve been using it for many years. About six, I think. The bottom label simply says “Optical Mouse”.

Today Lifehacker had an article on the best mice according to the readers. Of course most of them were Logitech mice. And as you would expect, there were mice like the G5 and the fancy MX Revolution.

Now maybe other people use mice differently, but when I use mine, especially when I play games, I pick it up a lot. Take the MX Revolution:

I’ve never used this specific mouse, but I’ve never been able to lift these off the desk as easily as with regular $10 mice. And although it appears to be ergonomically designed, these types of mice seem to be presumptuous about how you like to hold it. Here are some more photos to help explain:

How I hold my mouse:

As you can see, I hold it with my fingertips. Maybe others hold it this way too, but I find that I have much more control this way. Not only can I pick it up easily, but side-to-side movement is easier too.

How mice like the MX Revolution seems to presume that you like to hold your mouse:

Kind of with your entire hand.

Another issue I have is with wireless mice. I really like the idea of not having a cord to interfere with the movement of the mouse, but look at where they put the sensor:

It’s way on the side! I guess maybe I use my mouse strangely because whenever I use a cordless mouse, the cursor goes in all sorts of crazy directions and makes me want to toss it across the room which I can do because it’s cordless.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me.

I’d like some comments on this though…

Note: If you saw this post unfinished it’s because I couldn’t figure out any other way to get it from the web interface to Live Writer than by posting it and editing it from Writer.