Is that really a good idea? Wouldn't it wear our the mouse's pads?
And yeah, people still use mousepads; optical mice can still track poorly on the wrong surfaces, and a lot of people like the reduced friction as well. I got myself a new generic mousepad recently because my old one had a patch where my mouse would jitter on, which really sucked when I was playing FPSes.
Mousepads are a great way of dealing with variable and uneven surfaces.
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"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
That's actually not a bad idea (though why you'd buy a glossy tile and scuff it up instead of just getting something with a flat-colored surface is beyond me), but how do you keep your wrist from getting chafed by the edge of the tile? One of the reasons I went to optical mice was because the edge of the mousepad was irritating me; I can't imagine tile is going to be any better.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
RedImperator wrote:That's actually not a bad idea (though why you'd buy a glossy tile and scuff it up instead of just getting something with a flat-colored surface is beyond me), but how do you keep your wrist from getting chafed by the edge of the tile? One of the reasons I went to optical mice was because the edge of the mousepad was irritating me; I can't imagine tile is going to be any better.
If it's a marble tile, the top side's edges may be rounded off; many larger tiles come like that as the grout is set down a millimetre or two from the top surface, instead of flush as with smaller tiles. Flat colour's not necessarily available either, as being artifical stone (I doubt it's *actual* marble) it'd be pretty polished anyway despite what colour it was unless it'd been painted over.
Since I always use a wrist pad along side my mouse and pad, I have no problem with the edge of the mouse pad.
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
My mouse pad is soft with a squishy silicone like bulge for my wrist. The fabric doesn't screw up the optical signal from my mouse either, so it's better than just the tabletop. Though that's not a problem now with my Wi-Fi laser mouse.
