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carmalee | 20:21 Wed 20th Jul 2011 | Technology
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Do they lose their effectiveness over time? -
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You're still using an old type mouse?
Yes they do, they lose their grip and get quite floppy. Yes postdog, I can't get on with the lappy tablet at all - even my laptop has a mouse plugged it.
Er, no!

You shouldn't even need a mousemat with an optical mouse (unless, possibly, you're using a very roughly-hewn piece of wood as your desk!).

Internet cafés and most offices no longer have mousemats. I've got one but it's solely as a way of keeping a bit of space (on my extremely cluttered desk) free for mouse movements. It's not actually necessary.

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which is what I meant, nothing to do with a lappy. Personally, from experience, those type of mice lost effectiveness because of dirt and fluff and it had little to do with the mat.
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postdog - I don't think so (major techno phobe) - it's a saitek - bought a couple of years ago.
Thanks Boxy - wondered that.
Buenchicho - put Noisy on the key board then I may understand the reply! Optical mouse - a rodent with glasses? any roughly hewn wood in my house is not used as my desk. xC
It still works for me, I like my mice!
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:-)) boxy
An optical mouse, Carmalee, has little red light underneath it. (So perhaps she's a 'lady of the night'?)

Traditional mice, however, are masculine as they've always got balls down below ;-)
That's a bonus!
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I love the answer Buenchico! and yes, she is a lady with a little light - carmalee goes off chuckling into the night xC
mats have no 'function' they are just a surface.

open your mouse and clean the ball and the 3 little track rollers with a cotton bud,,,there will be a sticky brown ring of greasy gunk on each one
I have a Garth Brooks mousemat but it is redundent as I have a laptop and don't need it, but it still sits on my coffee table as a sort of, errr, decoration I suppose lol
If you don't use some sort of mat, you will wear off the top suface of your desk.
How does one open one's mouse? Never been happy with vivisection.
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thank you for the tip Joko
I thought a mouse mat was just to provide a flat surface for the mouse to move about smoothly.
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think you're right starbuckone
i have a mouse that glows in the dark, throws out different colours, bit like traffic lights without the stop, go, option.

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