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1 button mouse 1 3.23%
2 button mouse 6 19.35%
2 buttons and a scroll wheel mouse 23 74.19%
3 button mouse 6 19.35%
3+ button mouse 9 29.03%
Trackball 3 9.68%
Touchpad (laptop) 5 16.13%
Graphics tablet 3 9.68%
Index finger 3 9.68%
None 1 3.23%
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Old November 18th, 2004, 12:15 AM   #1
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Mouse Poll

To celebrate the mouse's birthday thought I would do a poll.

So which kind of pointing device do you use?

Select all the ones you use on a regular basis.
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Old November 18th, 2004, 03:07 AM   #2
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I use lots!
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Old November 18th, 2004, 05:21 AM   #3
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I use many too, but my favorate was that optical trackball with 5 buttons and 2 wheels. Too bad it broke

Now i use an optical 3 button, wheel mouse, and a 2 button touchpad.
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Old November 18th, 2004, 06:30 AM   #4
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I use the good ol' 2 button and a scroll, as well as a 5-button optical wireless mouse, and a laptop touchpad on my good ol' mac
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Old November 18th, 2004, 07:24 AM   #5
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A two button mouse with scrolling wheel. It's also an optical one too. My graphics tablet too for some stuff like drawing, fractals or if I'm going to be on the computer a while.
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Old November 18th, 2004, 07:38 AM   #6
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three buttons with the third one being the scroll button. So there wasn't an option for that I suppose.
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Old November 18th, 2004, 08:21 AM   #7
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Nope, that's the scroll wheel, I think, are there any scrollers which don't function as a button? Gee
Anyways, I use A 2 Button with scroller, handy as hell
Though I used my friends' mouse once and that had 5 buttons, optical and a scroller, playing SOF1 at that time
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Old November 18th, 2004, 09:35 AM   #8
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I have a two button optical with a wheel. I want one with two wheels.
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Old November 18th, 2004, 10:35 AM   #9
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I have 2 scrollers and 3 mouse buttons
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Old November 18th, 2004, 10:45 AM   #10
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I can understand the use of a cordless mouse, but what's the added utility of having two wheels? Or 5 buttons? A waste of money, I'd say.
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Old November 18th, 2004, 10:51 AM   #11
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The ones with lots of buttons are handy for games with alot of crontrolls, like freelancer or something, but all I have is a 2 button one with a scroller
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Old November 18th, 2004, 11:03 AM   #12
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I can understand the use of a cordless mouse, but what's the added utility of having two wheels? Or 5 buttons? A waste of money, I'd say.
Well considering the mouse is cordless and it was only 10 euro's. I say it was a bargain
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Old November 18th, 2004, 08:23 PM   #13
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I can understand the use of a cordless mouse, but what's the added utility of having two wheels? Or 5 buttons? A waste of money, I'd say.
Games man, games. Two wheels and 5 buttons would be great for games.
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Old November 18th, 2004, 08:33 PM   #14
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Two button optical mouse with a scroll wheel.
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Old November 18th, 2004, 09:30 PM   #15
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I have a Logitech MX500 with 8 buttons, and a Cordless Mousman Optical with 4 buttons. The notebook still has a standard 3-button mouse with wheel. And I have a small graphics tablet (barely used).
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Old November 19th, 2004, 08:32 AM   #16
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Don't wireless mouses eat batteries, like one a day?
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Old November 19th, 2004, 02:57 PM   #17
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Don't wireless mouses eat batteries, like one a day?
That depends on how much you use it.
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Old November 19th, 2004, 03:02 PM   #18
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I have a two button mouse with a scroll wheel, its all I need.
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Old November 19th, 2004, 04:06 PM   #19
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i use a 2 button with a scroller, a bvall thingy with 4 buttons, and my laptop t school has a rackpad...
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Old November 19th, 2004, 11:08 PM   #20
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Don't wireless mouses eat batteries, like one a day?
Nah, I use rechargeable batteries, and even those last for several weeks, since I don't use the comp too often.
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