To be reasonable, we'd have to have some reference point that was a mouse,
Nope. We know that any mouse thats serially connected to the PC, and all of the
current mice are, have to lag slightly due to the speed of the serial connection.
since even the human "lags slightly".
Nope, what we are talking about is the time between
when say the button is pressed and the PC registers
that press. Same with a movement of the mouse.
Given such a reference point being a high sample rate
PS2 or USB, quality mouse, there are no wireless that
don't lag more than that reference point
What matters is whether the wireless link adds any lag. It doesnt with the best wireless mice.
- so the statement is true
Nope.
even if you'd like to split hairs about it.
It aint hair splitting, its fact, ALL modern mice lag.
Fact.
You may not be able to perceive it yourself, but it's there, others can.
Easy to claim, hell of a lot harder to actually substantiate that claim.
Similarly some can't perceive CRT monitor flicker at 85Hz but others can.
Irrelevant to what is being discussed.
And human perception can be completely eliminated from
a rigorous scientific measurement of mouse lag anyway.
And its completely trivial to calculate the lag involved in any serial communication anyway.
... in your subjective use,
Nope, nothing subjective about whether the cord sometimes
affects the movement of the mouse and sometimes doesnt.
which is fine. Everyone should place their subjective use/needs
above all other factors but nevertheless the hypothetical ideal
when the user has good dexterity is an infinitely light mouse
as it allows finer control with the twitch muscles in the wrist
which are much faster than using more as the % of weight
of mouse vs hand grows.
Meaningless waffle with what is being discussed there.
Certainly some mice are worse than others in this respect,
some take smaller lighter lithium cell, one or two AAA, or one
AA instead of two AA - though some that seem to take two AA
will actually run from one or a AAA if there were an adapter shim.
Irrelevant to whether the cord on a corded mouse will sometime
constrain the mouse movement when it gets snagged.
To everyone.
Depends why they are light to some people, if there
were no other tradeoff in shape, size, weight distribution
then there are definitely people who prefer them lighter.
More meaningless waffle.
Personally I find it crazy that some actually add a weight plate.
Your problem.
The difference is I don't need the positive feedback of feeling pressure
against my hand to know I'm moving the mouse or how much.
That isnt the reason for adding weight deliberately.
Perhaps when one first gets a mouse and isn't so accustomed to it yet,
a certain amount of weight helps but otherwise it has a lot to do with
the user... if they get what they want it's win/win for everyone.
More irrelevant waffle.
So you dont have to do anything about the battery being low till its convenient to do that.
So you can schedule swapping batteries at the end of the day instead?
Not schedule, just do something about the low battery when the mouse isnt being used.
And anyone with a clue uses a mouse that doesnt need
to have the rechargeable batterys physically removed too.
Might matter if changing a battery took more than a dozen seconds.
Anyone with a clue uses a mouse that doesnt need
to have the rechargeable batterys physically removed.
Either way you still need have the replacement pair recharged
Not if you recharge what stays in the mouse.
Not if the batterys that stay in the mouse are
recharged overnight while you arent using the mouse.
so what I wrote is still relevant
Nope, as always.
- that it's handy to have a spare pair of low self discharge
cells already charged and waiting to be used in whatever
random device would happen to need them.
Anyone with a clue uses a mouse that allows the batterys to be
recharged without removing them from the mouse, and which runs fine
with the low battery indication flashing for the whole day so you can
just recharge it when you arent going to use the mouse overnight etc.
Unfortunately high end in a keyboard doesn't necessarily translate
into any important parameters for general keyboard use.
Wrong, as always.
Things like key travel & feedback vary per set design
decisions that are not tied to how high or low end they are,
I didnt even mention low end.
with one possible exception that now the old mechanical
switch style used a couple decades ago has become high
enough priced to be considered high-end by some, though
AFAIK neither Logitech or MS make one.
That bit wasnt even discussing keyboards. The next bit clearly was about keyboards.
Depends on their use.
Nope.
Games or HTPC users who want to control their HTPC
with only a mouse may benefit from addt'l buttons the most,
Irrelevant to the other situations that benefit from more than just minimal mouse buttons.
and as for the keyboard there are plenty of keyboard shortcuts and
on most modern keyboards - even the cheap low end ones, there
are several hotkeys that can be programmed. A low end cordless
Logitech for example may have about a dozen such addt'l keys, in
addition to secondary functions on all the <Fn> keys.
Irrelevant to my comment about mouse buttons. And those dont
replace well designed extra functions on the mouse anyway.
