The Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 takes some getting used to but is incredibly comfortable once you've adjusted to it.
By
Ryan Grove
on June 10, 2007
Of course, any good it does in helping prevent RSI goes out the window as soon as you have to type its ridiculously long name.
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I can't tell from the pictures, does that have normal buttons 1&2?
Yeah, it's got the usual left and right mouse buttons plus clickable (and tiltable) scroll wheel. It also has two thumb buttons on the left side. My only complaint is that the scroll wheel takes a huge amount of force to click, which makes it pretty much unusable as a button.
Good, clickable wheel-buttons are rare, I think. I've never got in the habit of using them. But I don't much care for extra buttons in general. I've got a thumb button on this mouse, and I've never come up with a good use for it.
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One mouse button is too few, more than two is too many.They're only rare on Microsoft mice. Logitech does scroll buttons very well (but they do everything else badly).
Those extra buttons are super useful for gaming.
I use a logitech, somewhat similarly shaped to the one in the claim, and I never considered its wheel button to be good. If the wheel is stiff you can't scroll properly, and if it's not stiff then any button action makes it scroll... it doesn't feel like a "button" either way.
Now I'm confused. I'm not talking about scrolling stiffness; I'm talking about the resistance when you actually press the wheel in to click it like a button.
Both are factors. I just prefer a button to be a button, I guess. Hybrids don't do it for me. I think this topic is now drained. ;)
It looks like it should vibrate.
That puts the entire comment thread here in an entirely different light. Let me check that again.
Excellent. I really like the bit about "huge amount of force", "if it's not stiff then any button action makes it scroll", and the topic being drained.
Haegmaster and Ryan are the unrecognized comic geniuses of our time.
ryan: if the force it takes to spint he wheel is small, then attempting to click and being at all off-center in how you apply that force is likely to make the wheel spin. if the force it take sto spin the wheel is large, then it's difficult to spin the wheel. it may be easy for you if you can aim your pressing precisely enough, but it's an accurate description of why i hate the scroll-buttons.