Keyboard and Mouse

Hey Gang,

What keyboard and mouse do you all use.

I have 3 MS Natural keyboards and a logitech Mouseman Wheel, the one before the optical.

Question, If I switch to an optical mouse will I loose or gain performance when playing FPS's ??

Your thoughts please.

I have a standard PS/2 keyboard, and a Trust Dual Scroll PS/2 Mouse. And a PSX gamepad hooked up via USB

Logitech Cordless Keyboard and Cordless Optical Mouseman
as stated here

The new logitech optical mice have dual sensors to give a huge DPI which should mean greater accuracy is possible. When I initially changed from normal to optical mice I found the lack of weight a little strange as I was used to the weight and resultant momentum of a standard mouse. But over all I find the optical mouse superior, no more sticking with a dirty mouseball/rollers.

New forum links:
Logitech MouseMan Dual Optical Mouse

Old forum links:
Microsoft Optical mouse develops fault
Logitech Mice & Keyboards

I have a Logitech wireless keyboard, and a Logitech optical mouse (not wireless) and I find the optical devices superior and much more accurate. I personally don't think I could go back to any rolling mice as long as there as optical devices.

I haven't had any problems with my two devcies plugged into my USB ports.

heh...SuperCheetah, you can daisy chain 127 devices up to a single USB port. Very cool!

I use a Micro$oft Natural Keyboard Pro Elite blah blah...It's really cool, I have like 19 buttons above my F1-F12 keys, as well as 3 above my numpad. Very cool!

I also use a Logitech Optical, nothing special about it, but it's still very nice. No complaints out of me

WOW!!! 127 devices that's crazy! Can't say I knew that. Thanks for the info. Vehementi.

i use a normal logitech keyboard and a optical logitech mouse.
i really love that keyboard. costs a bit more than the generic keyboards out there, but the keys are soft and quiet.
it would be cool to have the wireless keyboard though. cool design, and it goes with my mouse.

Hey poertner_1274,

One of USB's great features is its ability to connect multiple things on the same bus. It's limit is 127. You can daisy chain USB to 127...hook up a hub with 4 ports, connect 3 devices then another hub, another 3 devices and on and on and on...yeah its pretty cool. When they released USB, it was deminstrated at a trade show with 117 mice, all working, all with pointers on the screen. It was crowded to say the least !!

I agree with 3DS Julio that it depends on what you like. I've heard that people with smaller hands should go with the Logitech mice because the Intellimouse is rather big. I have a Logitech mouse and keyboard and am perfectly content with both of them.

Check out my keyboard -> Virtual Keyboard

Hehehe, Thats pretty cool, I still like my Natural Elete Pro but I think I am gonna try an intellimouse explorer this time, I don't know if I will like it, I have used nothing but logitech's for close to 8 years.

Logitech MouseMan optical, and a very old cherry keyboard which came with my first 'puter... (it's 6 years old...)

Granted I've had to repair it a bit (and should do so again soon), but it works like a charm, can handle rough handling (dropping on floor etc.) and doesn't have any of the annoying windows keys...!

You mean you can't drop out of Counter-strike by pressing the windows key by accident...
How do you live without that unique key????

Hey Didou, I like the keyboard but its not a natural one, I might still get carpol tunnel (sp ?) syndrome with it.

My best recommendation would be to try them out yourself.

Certain mouse for example, are heavier than others. I've found that some of these heavy mouses feels much nicer compared to my generic wheel logitec Compaq mouse.

I will probably never invest in wireless keyboard/mouse, one because I won't have a need for it, two simply because I really don't see the need to replace batteries worth the money or time.

You can always grab a Razor Boomslang if accuracy is your thing, but they're out of business...