Recommend me a new mouse!

[LavCat]

IMO, leave the mice behind:

M570 Trackball

I just can't go back to mice after using a trackball. The M570 fits in your hand so nice, gives you 5 buttons to work with (all of them programmable) and the only thing you ever move is your thumb.

I have a Trackman. I've been using it since before WoW, which implies with older Blizzard games, which means the microswitches have been replaced at least twice already.

The trackball is afixed to my desk with putty. I see no reason not to have a cord. The PS/2 was a terrible computer design but someone at IBM got the mouse port right. I put moleskin on the buttons to get more traction.

My complaint with the Trackman is it takes a lot of cranking of the ball to move the cursor across the screen (by which time I am often almost dead). My habit is to flick the ball with my index finger to get the cursor going where I want it. I have not found any mouse setting in Windows or WoW that really works. A flaw in an otherwise excellent design.