I have the wireless Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, and I absolutely love it, for anything.

I have never once experienced it being jerky though, except when the batteries are low, which is understandable.

kona: I have a Microsoft Optical wheel mouse and I use USB connection.

Do you have the USB to PS/2 adapter for your optical mouse? If you do then you should use it to connect your mouse to your PC. The instruction booklet for the mouse says it's the best way to connect your mouse to a PC. The USB is for Mac compatability. Macs use USB for keyboard and mouse.

mmm, I use an external high speed active USB 2 hub for my wireless mouse and keyboard on one system and all USB on the other wireless mice.

Yeah, I move my mouse and keyboard around at times and I will make use of the keyboard and Flat screen at times with my laptop so I can set them up on my laptop table and sit back in bed or on the couch.

Not a thing says anything about the USB connector being for MAC and PS2 for PC/ Matter of fact they come with a USB connector on the cable for the transceiver and a female to male USB/PS2 if you don't have an open USB port.

I use the Logitech cordless optical mouseman. I had some issues at first, with the signal not connecting on bootup..but that problem has been fixed. I go through a pair of AA batteries maybe once every other month...sometimes sooner if I've been playing mahjongg too much (too much clicking! ). I love the fact that it's a cordless, I get too flustered with corded mice. Like Koasati, I've programmed my thumb button, but use mine for double-clicks.

Tech Cat: I love a wireless mouse. I hate that cord on a mouse, it's always in the way. I don't move my keyboard around too often, so it's not an isue there.

About USB. A USB mouse works fine, but I found a major issue with USB keyboards: in Windows, the USB drivers are loaded with Windows, therefore before Windows loads, there is no USB support. I had a USB keyboard at work until recently when I had a problem and needed to boot in safe mode. An impossible task when your USB keyboard isn't responding during the boot process!!

Do you have the USB to PS/2 adapter for your optical mouse? If you do then you should use it to connect your mouse to your PC. The instruction booklet for the mouse says it's the best way to connect your mouse to a PC. The USB is for Mac compatability. Macs use USB for keyboard and mouse.

USB works fine for me jesse. Even in my games it works great.

I did have the adapter but the dog got ahold of it.

BTW Jesse and everyone: PS2 is a thing of the past. Most new Motherbords do not even have PS2 posts I think. USB and firewire are taking over I bet.

ports

Kona...not so...my ASUS P800P Deluxe ain't exactly old...and has PS2 ports for both a mouse and keyboard....along with 8 USB2 [for onboard].

As some have mentioned....it ain't clever to rely on USB keyboards if you're dealing with Bios setup....otherwise you'll get that old error code....

Keyboard not found.  Press F1 to continue.

[that's a REAL error message]

er.....'for onboard'....that'd be four onboard....

Well hopefully in the future they will do away with PS2 ports. After all, macs use nothing BUT USB and they work fine.

4 on board and then two pin-outs allowing you to add two ports on the end of ribbons adding up to 8

atleast my ASUS is configured that way, my Gigabyte has a total of 6, but that system is in the corner desk and it is easier to get at a hub rather than the back of the system.

and yes, each of my systems and all new clients network upgrades have PS2 connections for mouse and keyboard on them.

though I have yet to have any problem with the Gigabyte not seeing the keyboard at post time, must be the active USB hub...

Well hopefully in the future they will do away with PS2 ports. After all, macs use nothing BUT USB and they work fine.

Perhaps they will do away with PS2 ports in the future, but for now PCs are not ready to abandon PS2 entirely since there is that USB keyboard issue discussed above. Who know? Maybe the Longhorn generation of PCs will replace PS2 with USB.

I use a Logitech optical wheel mouse with a ps2 adapter, which I use in conjunction with a usb "finger" mouse. Works great together.

Since my mouse can connect to my PC via USB, would it be better for me to disconnect it from it's PS/2 port and reconnect it to USB?

USB over PS2?

not any gain really, other than USB doing multipule devices.

That and if your USB is on the front it is easier to get at if you have to unplug for any reason.

Then I suppose I'll just keep my mouse plugged into PS/2 to maximize the number of open USB ports.

My logitech optical mouse works great in every way. And the only reason my batteries run down is because I spend way to much time on this thing.

I use a M$ browser mouse with USB, No problems and I love it....Only crappy gamers whine about it..And they blame everything else but themselves when the lose or die.,,,,,

i got me a cheapo ge optical usb mouse. It works great and i have no problems playing games, like wolfenstein enemy territory, or tiger woods 2004.

Is a mouse without a tail still a mouse or just an ugly rodent?

Some people have not, nor ever will have, any idea of the skill level of a hardcore gamer. Some equipment everyone thinks is great just doesn't cut it. Like crappy ATI graphics etc...

Get out there and take on some serious players...

Like crappy ATI graphics

Crappy ATI graphics?

way better than Nvidia by a long shot

Try playing UT online - you'll get your ass fragged - ATI's lag big time

I do not understand. the 9800 Pro outperforms all of Nvidia's cards.

'Bench tests' vs real-world use will often give different results...