Will you buy high quality wireless mouse for using with DAW?

[Teksonik]

So I simply don't believe anyone anymore!

Nor do I........

[donkey tugger]

poundworld.jpg

Got one like this for £1 from Poundland (the clue's in the name...) about 5 years ago. No bother with it. Job done. This is Yorkshire.

[Teksonik]

Taken from the link below....

"In this post, we clarify whether professional gamers use wireless mice. Wireless mouses have been a taboo for gamers for years. Battery too heavy, latency too high, and for the price, you could get a regular mouse in a double pack. Times are changing.

More and more gamers are switching to wireless mouses. Current battery technologies ensure that they are just as lightweight as cable mouses. The latency here is also between 14 ms – 16 ms. In Esport, where every millisecond counts, pro gamers are increasingly using wireless mouses.

Almost every top team like Vitality, BIG, Team Liquid, or the FaZe Clan has one or more players playing with a wireless mouse".

https://raiseyourskillz.com/do-gamers-u ... less-mice/

Anyway this has nothing to do with using a wireless mouse for DAW usage which they are more than capable of handling. I'm not that good of a gamer to even justify the cost of a new wireless gaming mouse. All I like to do is kill things in Modern Warfare and Battlefield since apparently killing people in real life is "illegal"....

[4damind]

I've been using an MX Master since 2016, so it's a predecessor to version 3, but the high resolution doesn't actually have any advantage in the DAW. Wireless is actually (for me) the only advantage and, strictly speaking, a cheaper mouse would also do the job.

[chk071]

If anything, the gaming mice should actually be better in that regard, because, equally priced "office" mice usually have lower resolution and refresh rates.

Says the marketing.

No. It's a fact that they have higher resolution, and higher refresh rates.

And, yes, something like the aforementioned Logitech M510 is perfectly fine for office tasks. It's not good for gaming though. I tried it. Something's off. Probably low refresh rate, or the sensor isn't up to the task.

[stearine]

If anything, the gaming mice should actually be better in that regard, because, equally priced "office" mice usually have lower resolution and refresh rates.

Says the marketing. :)

No. It's a fact that they have higher resolution, and higher refresh rates. :)

The "it's better" is what the marketing is actually trying to make you believe, i.e. what they're ultimately saying. How they accomplish this (make the consumer believe) is by cladding the message in specs that supposedly prove the point they're trying to make; "higher resolution", "higher refresh rate." Does it matter though? I can move my 15-year-old mouse in 1px steps on sensitivity where it takes a travel distance of about 15cm (6") to span 2560px. Not that I ever need 1px precision with 4,096,000 pixels to do my bidding.

What you actually need is decent (in contrast to ultra-high) resolution, high tracking speed, low input lag (many gaming mice are actually atrocious here), just the right lift-off distance, mechanically nimble buttons, and comfort. The last three items are very subjective.

In my experience most advancement has been made in ergonomics in the last 15 years (and even that has taken steps back occasionally), whereas precision and tracking speed passed the point of diminishing returns practically no returns ages ago.

[chk071]

Granted, I don't need 4.000 DPI, and all that stuff either, but, e.g. low refresh rate is really very bad.

And, yes, some of the stuff gaming mice or keyboards have is pretty useless. Nonetheless, they're tailored for a purpose which some of the 30 € bog standard office mice just can't fulfill.

[stearine]

Rollermouse
https://www.contourdesign.com/product-c ... llermouse/



Trackball
https://www.kensington.com/software/tra ... explained/



Eyetracker
https://gaming.tobii.com/

[BertKoor]

Will you buy high quality wireless mouse for using with DAW?

Nope. I have never payed more for a mouse than a trip to McDonalds would cost. No problem.

But if you need justification: sure, whatever floats your boat.


Gotta say though, on my MacBookPro I work mainly with the trackpad. Since covid forced me to work from home and I connected an extra monitor + keyboard, I dug up the MagicMouse that my employer supplied, and it can do ... magic! Like it.

[vurt]

Rollermouse
https://www.contourdesign.com/product-c ... llermouse/



Trackball
https://www.kensington.com/software/tra ... explained/



Eyetracker
https://gaming.tobii.com/

will having a lazy eye effect the eye tracker? i don't want to keep accidentally opening things while im working.

[zerocrossing]

Nope. I fell in deep love with a Kensington Expert Mouse (oddly, not a mouse, but a big trackball) a long time ago, and that’s all I’ll use now. So much better for me than any other solution.

[whyterabbyt]

kvr, where we can even start an argument over mice/mouses!

its 'meece', you bastard.

[vurt]

kvr, where we can even start an argument over mice/mouses!

its 'meece', you bastard.

there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!

[whyterabbyt]

there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!

oh, jeboose!

[vurt]

does anyone know if there's a decent emulation of bagpuss's mouse organ?

or is it just the half complete one with the bugs and devs who keep saying "we will fix it" but still haven't