# Graphic designers, recommend me a new mouse

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphic-designers-recommend-me-a-new-mouse/391875>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 12, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphic-designers-recommend-me-a-new-mouse/391875 "2007-02-12T17:15:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphic-designers-recommend-me-a-new-mouse/391875/1 "2007-02-12T17:15:37Z")

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My old mouse is starting to get a little cranky, and I didn’t really like it much anyway, so it’s time for a new one. Can anyone recommend a good mouse? I’m particularly looking for one that has good control when doing detail work, like touching up a photo, or trying to hit just that one letter with the cursor in InDesign. I think I really only need two buttons and a scroll wheel, not one of those crazy gamer mouses with more buttons than my keyboard, but feel free to enlighten me if you like those.

And I’m on a Mac, if it makes a difference. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphic-designers-recommend-me-a-new-mouse/391875/2 "2007-02-12T17:37:48Z")

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Mouse? For graphics work? Are you a masochist?

Get yourself a Wacom tablet. I’ve got one of their Intuos tablets, but the Graphire is also quite decent.

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**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphic-designers-recommend-me-a-new-mouse/391875/3 "2007-02-12T17:45:05Z")

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Yeah, that’s something I’ve been thinking about, but I don’t do too much heavy art type work, mostly just page layout. I’ll check those models out, though, thanks.

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphic-designers-recommend-me-a-new-mouse/391875/4 "2007-02-12T18:20:03Z")

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Be sure to get one without a ball. (If they’re still made.)

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**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphic-designers-recommend-me-a-new-mouse/391875/5 "2007-02-12T18:36:43Z")

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[MacWorld reviews the best.](http://www.macworld.com/topics/hardware/inputdevices/)