Re: What surface for Apple Mighty Mouse? in All things Macintosh http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20447248 en Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:03:27 EDT Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:03:27 EDT Re: What surface for Apple Mighty Mouse? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20450572 dennismurphy : I use a round Apple mousepad I picked up at the Company Store in Cupertino. It's awesome.

Here is about the only image I can find of it on the web ...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20450572 Thu, 08 May 2008 09:53:38 EDT Re: What surface for Apple Mighty Mouse? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20449893 decx :
said by sparkyy See Profile :

I bought a round black IKEA pad to use with my new Imac.
I never knew until I read this post that there was a problem.
I haven't had a problem with the round Ikea mouse pads yet. I've used them for quite a few years since I had problems with my MouseMan Optical on nice hard surface mouse pads a few years back. In fact I'm using a round polka dot one with my Wireless MM (which is laser though) right now. I also use one with my G7 Gaming mouse, they all work great. Since it's a cloth top, it has a reasonably smooth glide (not as good as the SteelSeries Qck), and cuts down on the feet wear.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20449893 Thu, 08 May 2008 03:40:03 EDT Re: What surface for Apple Mighty Mouse? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20449135 sparkyy : I bought a round black IKEA pad to use with my new Imac.
I never knew until I read this post that there was people were having a problem with the MM and the surface it was on.

Thus in an indirect way I am saying..... The IKEA pad is Great!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20449135 Wed, 07 May 2008 23:14:14 EDT Re: What surface for Apple Mighty Mouse? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20449066 Sebehk : The mouse pad I bought is Japanese-made, so I could not find a picture or reference. I use a hard-surface mouse pad, similar to this:

»www.xtracpads.com/products.php?p···ection=2

My Logitech MX Revolution mouse works GREAT on it.

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The problem with rough surfaces is that when they wear down they get glossy and the optical mice no longer tracks well (I used to use rough plastic mouse pads quite a while ago). Plus with a rough surface the mouse feet wears down quite a bit faster. Rough surface pads were designed to maximize tracking for ball mice which did require the traction of a rough surface.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447346 Wed, 07 May 2008 17:41:48 EDT Re: What surface for Apple Mighty Mouse? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447248 HEDP : Anything that has a rough surface will provide the best traction for optical style mouses. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447248 Wed, 07 May 2008 17:23:13 EDT Re: What surface for Apple Mighty Mouse? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20447193 MsTerra : At my office, the pullout mouse surface of my keyboard tray works okay with my MM - it's gray laminate. At home, my husband uses his MM on the bare surface of his butcherblock desktop. We've both found that the cursor will suddenly skip off to another area of the screen from time to time, and that's probably not a function of the surface, though I suspect it has to do with lifting and moving the mouse at the same time.
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