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I got it from Lowes...

It's a 12" x 12" marble floor tile.

I got one with a glassy finish that I could see myself in, then took some fine sand paper and scuffed it up a bit so the laser would work.

I love it, it's nice and smooth with just the right amount of friction.

(Note: do NOT put these mouse pads down corner first. They will chip and then you have to bust out the super glue)

price: $3.25

People still use mouse pads?

I thought they´d disappeard whith the uprise of optical mice.

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.

What's a mousepad? Aren't those too old-fashioned?

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.

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.

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.