Just Bought an MS Keyboard & Mouse

starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Just Bought an MS Keyboard & Mouse

orright, so which MS hater/detractor's gonna flame me first.

GGGRRRRR!!!! Last night I was happily doing the usual thing on my PC (you know, visiting WC)....then bam, keys started to stick intermittently, sometimes requiring a second or third tap to register.....so out comes the compressed air and a thorough clean out was performed. Tap, tap....nothing....tap tap, bugger all

Okay, a driver uninstall, reinstall....still nothing, but even worse, now my mouse wasn't working either, rendering my PC useless. Fortunately I had a spare of each but not cordless, so I was able to get in to see what was going wrong.
After going through all the troubleshooting procedures and a clean install of the hardware software, etc, still no go....dead as a flamin' dodo. Dontcha just hate it...when something stuffs up big time...and its only 2 days out of warranty!!! Now there was no way I was going back to corded so off I went today to get me a new cordless setup....eventually settling for a basic MS package with some mulimedia funtions) that suits my needs for AU$79. (bugger, there goes the wine, women and song night)
Okay, okay, its MS, and no, it doesn't have all those fancy extra mouse buttons, and sure, there are other brands out there with all sorts of nick nacks and do-dads that MS doesn't.....so what.
I'm pleased with what I've got....so let the anti-MS flamers off their leashes cos I'm sure somebody will be happy for me.....besides me

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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Hopefully I can avoid that one.
For me, it's all in the thumb. I don't move any thing else except my middle finger to use the scroll wheel. That muscle between thumb and forefinger does get "developed" over time.

With a mouse, I manage quite well using only my forefinger and thumb...by placing the opposite two fingers firmly on the desktop, I find the opposing pressure allows me the move the mouse left and right with very minimal finger movement, thus enabling me to work for longer periods of time. The Trackball required me to use more movement and became more difficult to accurately control as my discomfort increased. However, speaking Sir to Sir, Lantec....I'm happy that you're pleased with yours.

I do have to give MS props though for coming out with the ergonomic keyboard

Mine's not the ergonomic one, but its still one of the most comfortable keyboards I've used, just the same. Performance and setup-wise, it is really nice to use.
There's alot of keys that don't have letters or numbers on them....just gotta figure out what they're for

There's some muti-media and other keys I've not got around to using as yet, but I'll eventually get around to them.

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