Mouse Recommendations?

[tehamnes]

Razer Mamba here with a Vespula mat! Its the best combo I've used.

[3DMK]

If anyone gets the chance to try an evoluent mouse...do it....you will NEVER get pain in your wrist/arm/neck again as it was desgined to prevent that.
Quote from their site---The Evoluent VerticalMouse 2 (an earlier model identical in concept) was evaluated in 2007 by a team at the health services clinic in UC Berkeley, including medical doctors, physical therapists, ergonomists, and administrators. It was found to be comfortable, easily adapted to, and promote a neutral wrist and forearm posture.

And if you're serious about your setup than you need to take a long hard look at your keyboard which is probably an older design than your mouse.
Evoluent makes a keyboard with the numbers on the LHS of the keyboard.....considering we have a mouse in our right hand it just makes so much sense to have numbers on the LHS of the keyboard
http://www.evoluent.com/kb1.html

I have been using the Evoluent mouse & keyboard for the last 2 years now and I DO NOT get ANY pain or soreness even after using them for 16hrs a day.

To be fair their were some bad drivers in the early versions but that has been fixed ages ago so it all good

Hope this helps

[Franx]

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I have been using the Evoluent mouse & keyboard for the last 2 years now and I DO NOT get ANY pain or soreness even after using them for 16hrs a day.
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You dont need a special mouse or keyboard. What you need is to get away from your computer after 8-10 hours...

[3DMK]

You dont need a special mouse or keyboard. What you need is to get away from your computer after 8-10 hours...

No offence but I am not sure that's good advice for anyone by saying have a break after 8-10 hours. You would need to have a break every hour for 5 mins of stretching to aleviate any pain when using a standard mouse.

Even 8-10 hours with a standard mouse & keyboard is going to make you sore.....and what happens when you have to do a 12 or 16 hour day????

Most standard mouse designs are very bad for your wrist/arm/neck and I have been to the chiropractor enough times to know that.
To prove a point my little finger on my mouse hand had has actually changed shape/angle due to too many years using a standard mouse. My chiropractor has also informed me It will NEVER recover fully. and he is right as even after 2 years of using a erganomic design mouse my little finger is still F%$#ed.
Also I haven't been to the Chiropractor once in 2 years since using the Evoluent mouse & keyboard setup....I used to go every 2 months when using a standard mouse.

one more point is that the Evoluent keyboard is much faster to use as it has the numbers [as well as extra enter & delete keys] on the left...no more moving the left arm all the way to the RHS of the keyboard which is slowing down production.

Hope this helps

[Franx]

Of course I was kidding here (as per the winking smilie), and I surely didnt mean to go 8 hours straight without taking breaks. It's just that I find there wouldnt be much life left to enjoy if I had to spend 16 of the 24 hours that make a day, working... I sincerely hope this is not your weekly routine

[3DMK]

Of course I was kidding here (as per the winking smilie), and I surely didnt mean to go 8 hours straight without taking breaks. It's just that I find there wouldnt be much life left to enjoy if I had to spend 16 of the 24 hours that make a day, working... I sincerely hope this is not your weekly routine

Sorry if I seemed a bit full-on but I misread that you were kidding.
...unfortunately I do work plenty of 16 hour days as I run my own business & I know that if the job is not finished on time.....My family eats air for dinner ..

[ior=0]

I thought this might be interesting article to add to this topic
http://boingboing.net/2012/11/07/raz...se-requir.html

[voltron7]

Logitech MX Revolution here...for past 7 years have tried many others, but always go back to the MX...

[peprgb]

I thought this might be interesting article to add to this topic
http://boingboing.net/2012/11/07/raz...se-requir.html

Yep, i dont like the Synapse 2.0 app, it is always as Tray icon, you have a lag when booting windows until it is saved (with my simple Microsoft mouse there wasn't), i experimented some bugs saying that the local settings were lost and asking for downloading the cloud settings....etc

[Subburb]

After trying several mouses, i just fall in love with cyborg R.A.T 5.

[s0real]

another vote for the evoluent mouse from me!
yeah, they look weird, and take a bit of getting used to - but it's completely eliminated the crippling rsi in my wrist and bad shoulder pain is now a thing of the past.

very highly recommended if you spend a lot of hours in the chair!

[Olli96]

+1 for the evoluent mouse. Using it for more then 3 years now and all my problems i had with my wrist are gone.

[voltron7]

I tried the evoluent mouse for awhile, but I just couldn't get used to it. Whenever I would try to click, it would too easily become a click-drag, which is horrifying for me while browsing the computer...(potential for moving directories.) Anyway, it was good quality, and their CS was good, etc. No RSI here, so I guess I gave adjusting to the mouse too easily, hehe.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Logitech G9x here...amazing mouse! Cannot but recommend...has to be combined with a really good pad too though...as every great mouse

[flino2004]

Logitech Performance MX with Steelseries pad...I'm using it with a laptop, so this mouse works anywhere...., even in glass(If I don't have a pad for any reason )