# And so it goes, to Mice (or Mouses?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-goes-to-mice-or-mouses/47906>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 31, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-goes-to-mice-or-mouses/47906 "2000-12-31T16:26:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-goes-to-mice-or-mouses/47906/1 "2000-12-31T16:26:14Z")

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    - Mousi? Anyway, my Logitech Marble Mouse trackball is dying a slow useless death. The left button is misfiring when hit or on and my curse-to-misfire ratio is rapidly climbing. Who’s got an optical mouse? Do optical mice work well enough to justify their prices? I have seen the MS one and another called Boomslang (IIRC) sold mostly as a “gaming” device. Are there any others about, and what do they cost? - MC

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**Author:** ![socpro69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@socpro69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/socpro69)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-goes-to-mice-or-mouses/47906/2 "2000-12-31T20:27:38Z")

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I’ve got an MS IntelliMouse and it’s the best purchase I’ve made in a long time. Mind you, I really _HATED_ my old one I may have some unresolved issues which you don’t. Still, it never needs cleaning, works on any surface and has those cool back/forward browser buttons.

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**Author:** ![Wozzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@Wozzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wozzo)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-goes-to-mice-or-mouses/47906/3 "2000-12-31T23:46:30Z")

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I got an optical mouse with my new iMac, and I love it.

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**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-so-it-goes-to-mice-or-mouses/47906/4 "2001-01-01T02:27:16Z")

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I still have a trackball mouse (which I have to clean shit out of all the time, I hate it) but just yesterday I visited a friend’s house, and he had an optical mouse. It worked great. I didn’t see any problem with it, except when I was playing CounterStrike, sometimes (actually, it only happened twice) at random times I would be looking directly upward for some reason. It might have been the mouse, or the game which caused it. But it wasn’t a terribly debilitating error to begin with. I really want an optical mouse.