A New Mouse

This doesn't really concern FCP, although I'll be using it a lot and I assume there's plenty here who can answer my question. I'm shopping for a new mouse. Can I get some recommendations for high quality ergonomic models that help prevent stress/injury in the hands/arms/shoulder?

Indeed not the right place for this request
If you're worried about injury through mouse use.... don't use one!!
Since I changed to a Wacom tablet, I've had no problem with RSA.... and find editing with a tablet much easier than a mouse. But I keep my (wireless) apple mouse on stand by for the odd tricky thing a tablet falls down on.
J.

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I'm in the market for a new mouse. Rather than buying a straight replacement, could users give me a little feedback on their non-mighty mice?
I'm left handed, though that doesn't matter as I can use a mouse happily in either hand, usually depending on available desktop space. Any thoughts?

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I am running Creatice Cloud with Illy CS6 on Windows and I need a new mouse
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Use of a stylus is entirely a matter of personal preference and style. It is certainly not necessary and is grossly misleading to characterize it as "best," as if it's some kind of necessity.
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Shopping for a new mouse

Whats your favorite and why?
Thanks

Short of spending inordinate amounts of money, I'd go as far as to say most >mice/meeses/mouses are relatively the same. As long as they're not cheap >and break right away.
kind of, but also not really. I just did a whole lot of looking into mice myself, after finally figuring out that they're absolutely not all equal. especially when you are talking bluetooth mice, in my experience you really can make some bad choices.
what i learned from my looking around: laser tracking and optical tracking are not the same thing. you definitely want to go for laser tracking, makes quite a difference. this means that if you're looking at the mighty mouse, it's only the wireless one that has this type of tracking, so take a look at that one.
I think logitech also have a few decent laser tracking bluetooth mice on the market.
if you are going for bluetooth, get something recent to market. bluetooth drivers used to be horrible things for some brands like kensington, they would randomly cut out and need to be reset, or the mouse pointer would just jump all over the screen whenever it felt like it.
under no circumstances should you get a kensington pilot mini optical bluetooth mouse. I just trashed mine, worst mouse I've ever had. it was so bad it turned me off even considering any kensington mice at all when looking for a new one.
so I ended up going with the wireless mighty mouse after testing it out with logic for an hour or so at a local dealer. compared it with a logitech that they had, unfortunately they had no logitechs with laser tracking in stock or it might have been better competition. but I've no regrets at all with the apple one, it's actually quite amazing, never thought I'd like it this much. even the weird scrollball thing is pretty cool, you get quite used to being able to x/y scroll in logic quite quickly.
anyway happy shopping. don't buy kensington!

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