Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32704162-20180712151653/@comment-35065776-20180712164033

Just a word of advice - if you use a laser mouse, wired or not, every once in a while check the laser aperture underneath. They have a tendency to collect fuzzies and small hairs, and that will definitely affetc its fundtionality. Keep it angled away from your eyes to prevent retinal damage from the laser, and blow into the opening to clear it out. If that's all that is wrong with your mouse, you just saved some money. If not, maybe the good old basic Microsoft mouse - it's sturdy and durable, and if I remember correctly, pretty inexpensive as well.

Myself, I've become addicted to a company called E-Blue. I use the Cobra Junior (sounds like a gaming mouse, and it basically is - but not too intense, and pretty inexpensive as well.  It's wired and laser, and pretty comfortable to use.

I used to swear by Logitech - I got one of their leading edge laser mice some years ago - the M7, I think it was called - had removable batteries, came with 2, and the signal receiveer doubled as a battery charger, so you always had a charged battery available. Problem was, it didn't respond too well to any type of surface, and Logitech tech support had no known resolution to the problem (except maybe buying a very expensive laser mousepad from someone somewhere (I couldn't find any).  So they basically dropped the followups on my tech support inquiry. I still have the mouse, somewhere, and keep meaning to pull it out and give it another try - it was an awesome looking and feeling mouse.  But ever since then I started drifting away from being a straight-up Logitech fanboy.  Now I explore other companyes as well when looking vfor peripherals - I do check to see what Logitech has available, but they seem to have become a more run-of-the-mill company than they used to be.