[Q] lazer vs optical mice, which is better? - Page 2

MaliciousOne

United States47 Posts

February 17 2011 16:35 GMT

#21

@Slader

I feel like the hand/wrist problems can easily be alleviated with a proper wrist rest. I personally use a generic mouse pad with a wrist rest, and put my SteelSeries QCK on top of it. Even with my Razer Lachesis (which is slightly strange ergonomcally at least when it comes to my pinky finger, great for claw grippers though), i have no hand/wrist problems or discomfort at all.

SladeR

Canada61 Posts

February 17 2011 16:49 GMT

#22

Wrist wrests can actually cut off blood flow and drastically increase chances of an RSI, along with chair armwrests (with these cutting off blood flow to the ulnar nerve at the elbow, causes numbness in 4th and 5th fingers). RSI's are generally caused by lack of blood flow through the area, this is why progamers spend so much time keeping their hands warm and doing certain stretches to promote blood flow. Some people use wrist wrests, I personally do not

just some more food for thought for alot of the players thinking about dumping alot of hours into starcraft, ergonomics should be priority. I'm glad you do not have any discomfort while using a wrist wrest though. I would say my QcK heavy acts as a wrist wrest. One of my close friends got pretty severe carpal tunnel and was basically denied surgery while I was in highschool and I've spent alot of time with ergonomics. Having personally bought a Evoluvent 3 vertical mouse for web browsing etc just in case. Adding more weights puts more stress onto your wrists. Both TLO and Huk have gotten surgery in their wrists after only a few months of very competitive SC2, many progamers have been doing it for years and have had no symptoms ,and again many of them have had surgery, I personally would not take any chances.

triangle

United States3803 Posts

February 17 2011 16:53 GMT

#23

I prefer optical, for a bunch of reasons:
1. You almost certainly do not need the added dpi of a laser mouse. I use an optical mouse on 3500 dpi, and most people do not use nearly that much dpi. Using a mouse on 5600 dpi or something seems like total overkill. Also, if you have a decent mousepad you shouldn't need to use the mouse on weird surfaces.
2. Cheaper :D
3. Works better with cloth mousepads. Cloth mousepads can mess up laser mice. I prefer cloth to hard mousepads because they are generally cheaper and don't destroy the mouse feet.
4. Lasers can have issues when you lift them.

Edit - SladeR is right, edited.

SladeR

Canada61 Posts

February 17 2011 17:33 GMT

#24

For the record, DPI does not equal accuracy triangle. DPI is a direct measure of sensitivity with regards to screen resolution. sensor accuracy has nothing to do with it. With accuracy you want to be thinking polling rate and tracking speed. With the tracking speeds of both 3g infrared and laser being much much greater than a person can accelerate a mouse it's almost near irrelevant. This is where you want to start thinking what surfaces you are using, hand grips, are you going to be lifting the mouse, certain gimmicks with certain mice, mouse accel problems (xai), etc etc.

tampix

France20 Posts

February 17 2011 17:39 GMT

#25

If it's not :
- Razer Deathadder
- MS IME 3.0
- SteelSeries IME 3.0 (rare)

Then it's not the best mouse available

(optical > laser, both in fps and rts)