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As it turns out, I don't suck at video games. I'm actually magnitudes better than I had thought. I used to crawl the bottom of the scoreboards. That was until I ditched my expensive overweight crappy MX700 for a cheap mouse that came with a stand-in logitech keyboard that I purchased, the difference so far is most definitely the weight. I can fling my lil' crapper mouse around with ease, where my MX700 was hard to move.

And now I come forward with my desires. I would like to purchase a new mouse, and I have a series of requirements. Hopefully, somebody can help me with finding one based on thier experience. My needs are:

It has to work in every single way in linux. If it has a button, it better work as intended.

It can't be a standard 3 button, I'd prefer a 7 button mouse, as I fell in love with that aspect of my MX700.

It can't look like crap.
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It must be wired. Wireless has already proven to be too heavy. In fact, it is the MX700's only weakness.

Lastly...

There are two types of mice, the ones you move with your palm, and ones you move with your fingers. I've found that the logitech I am using right now is a finger mouse, and my response is much quicker even though I can actually notice a much lower resolution. It simply responds slower, but the design and how I hold it has made it more capable than the MX700. The mouse needs to be a finger mouse.

The ones I've flagged as extremely viable candidates are the Razer Copperhead and the Razer Plasma LE Daimondback.

Here is the copperhead:

and the MX700:

Notice the differences in shape? Those very slight differences change how one uses it. The MX700 is a palm mouse, and as such, you find your arm resting on teh desk a lot, nuking response time. The razer on the other hand, utilizes some interesting concepts, and I am not quite sure it works in linux. :(

I should be ashamed of myself.

This post was edited by Aynjell on Dec 24, 2005.

Well as it turns out the Razer Copperhead is a perfect match. The mouse works right out of the box with linux, and it's really hard to complain. :)

I should be ashamed of myself.