Re: [PLUG] This Box Rocks, but on XP?

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

Jeffrey J. Nonken wrote:

> For a while I was throwing cheap ball mice at my (learning-disabled) daughter's games computer, because she had a habit of destroying them quickly. No way I wanted to put an expensive optical mouse there! Then one day I woke up to the fact that was the mechanics that were being broken, not the least because when the ball would stop tracking, she'd slam the mouse down on the table. Two years ago I put an optical Logitech on that computer, and I haven't had to replace it yet.
>  

Somehow a piece of plastic got knocked out of my Logitech optical mouse 
and it still works.  I very rarely, if at all, have to clean mine.  Our 
other opto mouse gets a little grime on its underside, but it really 
doesn't require cleaning to track reliably.  The only difference is that 
my mouse is on a cloth mouse pad and the other one is on a coated mouse 
pad.  So, I think a cloth mouse pad is better for the opto mouse.  It 
might even provide better surface variations for the optics.  No one 
should have to use a ball mouse anymore, especially since the cost of 
the opto mouse has dropped.  (Assuming x86. I don't know what's going on 
with the rest of the world.)

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