Gaming mouse recommendations.

[TinCow]

Who knows, maybe I'm just special, but I notice it, and I've plenty of friends who do as well. I've also yet to know of a top-ranked twitch style competition gamer who uses a cordless mouse, but I'm not deep into that scene.

Oh well. If cordless makes you happy, then by all means go for it. Some people honestly just don't notice, or it doesn't bother them. This is an opinion thread after all.

I felt the same way until my wife got me a MX Revolution about a year ago. It's the best mouse I've ever owned, hands down, and I find it far superior for gaming than all the corded mice I used to use.

[Xiahou]

I felt the same way until my wife got me a MX Revolution about a year ago. It's the best mouse I've ever owned, hands down, and I find it far superior for gaming than all the corded mice I used to use.

I think cordless mice have come a long way from their extremely laggy ancestors- but by definition the technology would have to add some lag time, however miniscule. I'm sure that on modern wireless mice, most people would never notice the difference- myself likely included.

I think the main question one need consider when weighing corded/cordless is necessity. Do you need a cordless mouse? I have two cordless mice. I use one for my HTPC, so that I could mouse from my coffee table if I need to without dragging a cable across the living room floor. The other, I bought for my netbook, to spare me from wrapping up and untangling a cord every time I pack or unpack it. If you're sitting at a desk with your PC just a few feet away, I really think it's pointless to bother with cordless mice. You gain nothing and possibly introduce some lag and have to worry about batteries conking out on you while you play.

Also, I absolutely can not recommend a ball mouse.
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[TinCow]

I think cordless mice have come a long way from their extremely laggy ancestors- but by definition the technology would have to add some lag time, however miniscule. I'm sure that on modern wireless mice, most people would never notice the difference- myself likely included.

I think the main question one need consider when weighing corded/cordless is necessity. Do you need a cordless mouse? I have two cordless mice. I use one for my HTPC, so that I could mouse from my coffee table if I need to without dragging a cable across the living room floor. The other, I bought for my netbook, to spare me from wrapping up and untangling a cord every time I pack or unpack it. If you're sitting at a desk with your PC just a few feet away, I really think it's pointless to bother with cordless mice. You gain nothing and possibly introduce some lag and have to worry about batteries conking out on you while you play.

Any lag that is produced by my cordless mouse is less damaging to my gameplay than the occasional times when my mouse cord would get caught on my keyboard or something else on my desk. That's generally instant death right there and even though it didn't happen very often, it's far more serious than any fraction of a millisecond of lag which any person would inherently begin compensating for over time. In any case, I love the MX Revolution because of its layout and features, the cordless aspect is an entirely ancillary consideration for me. I like the cordless aspect mainly because it keeps my desk more tidy. The next keyboard I get will be wireless as well for the same reason.