[X4U] Hopping Mouse

[keith_w]

Randy B.Singer wrote:
> Richard Gilmore said:
> 
> 
>>I have been noticing this strange phenomenon on both my
>>Tiger Macs Intel and PPC. Sometimes when I click the mouse, it will suddenly
>>leap in a random direction so that my click lands somewhere else. REALLY
>>annoying. But it's a non Apple Macally mouse. My Apple mouse never did this.
>>I installed the Macally drivers nothing changed. It also hops a line up
>>sometimes for no reason which invariably makes me click the wrong thing. But
>>I don't like the one click Apple mouse nor the Mighty Mouse. So I'm not sure
>>what to do. Should I be complaining to Macally?
> 
> 
> 
> The first optical mouse that I ever had was a Microsoft Optical 
> Wheelmouse.  It has terrible tracking at first, using the mousepad that I 
> had always used, which was neophrene with solid blue coarse nylon on top. 
>  The cursor sometimes jumped unexpectedly, and precise maneuvers were 
> very difficult.
> 
> After trying the mouse on just about every surface I could find, I 
> finally tried a mousepad from 3M called the Precise Mousing Surface:
> 
> http://www.3m.com/us/office/myworkspace/mos_mousing_surface.jhtml

I'm sold, product no. 70-0711-7803-5, but just try to figure out where 
to buy from that site!

I gave up. I'll go give my money to Staples or somebody...

keith whaley