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Buying a more sophisticated mouse

[limbo]

My job change in the past few months has meant I am spending as much of my time on MACs as I do in Windows. The mouse I use now is one of those sexy little transparent 'soap bar' numbers you get with all G4's. But I feel it's time I upgraded a little, in at least a dual button + wheel jobbie - Control click is just not as quick.

So what do you use now? What would you recommend? and if you had no budget and space constraints what would you invest in?

Ta, Limbo

[blakmonk]

Well,

You can plug just ANY usb mouse on your mac, if you have OSX, mouse and wheel will work.

Blakmonk

[sonjay]

I've been a long-time Logitech mouse fan, and my latest acquisition is their optical five button mouse with scroll wheel.

Left and right click - standard functions
Middle (scroll wheel) click - close window
Scroll wheel - scrolls, of course
Right-side button #2 - Expose all windows
Left-side button #2 - Expose application windows.

I have a Logitech cordless optical scroll mouse too, but the extra weight of the batteries makes it uncomfortably heavy. I prefer the corded optical for that reason.

Tip: Get USBOverdrive -- the best universal mouse driver in existence, bar none. Every button is completely, totally customizable on a per-application basis - not just the button function but also speed and acceleration.

[jezra]

Does the input device have to be a mouse? If there was no constraint on budget, I'd get a large Wacom Intuos2 tablet. The stylus is cordless, battery free, and has 2 programmable buttons, but there is no scroll wheel.