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There is a gray/silver logitech optical mouse (the one with the blinking
light on the box) at the GTCS, anyone thing it's an ok deal?

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"Stuffed Crust" <pizza@shaftnet.org> wrote in message
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> David.Clark@mse.gatech.edu wrote:
> > Hmmm all this praise of the optical mice. I am wondering why
> > Sun Sparc's (or whatever they are calling the new ones in these days)
> > went back to the ball mice from optical mice as standard.  French
building
> > Suns used for CAD work have ball mice, and I can't say that I notice the
> > difference, except for the cleaning issue.
>
> Differnt kind of optics.
>
> The old optical mice used a special mouse pad and a simple IR LED array
> and receiver were used to track movement.  They worked well, but needed
> special pads and could get confused with fast movement.
>
> Cue current crop uses visible light, and actually scans/digitizes the
> surface, and uses DSPs to track movement by comparing images.  They work
> on nearly any surface (anything that's not transparent and/or completely
> reflective).    No more cleaning hairy mouse balls and rollers.
>
>  - Pizza
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