{"id":21,"date":"2006-08-02T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrzeebo.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/02\/18"},"modified":"2011-03-01T19:38:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:38:22","slug":"18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/2006\/08\/02\/18\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most people, I really do like touchpads on laptops.  I think they&#8217;re an intuitive way to use a pointing device.  Because of this, I&#8217;ve exclusively used the touchpad on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/computers\/camilla.html\">Camilla <\/a>in the time I have had this laptop.<\/p>\n<p>However, once in a while, I really do a lot of work in one sitting on my laptop.  For instance, if I work from home, or if I take the laptop on a trip and it becomes my primary computer.  In those cases, the &#8220;intuitiveness&#8221; of the touchpad is overshadowed by the discomfort it causes after extended usage.<\/p>\n<p>For these times, I decided to buy a Logitech Notebook Optical Mouse Plus.  It was the top-rated corded optical notebook mouse on NewEgg and Amazon, and was only $11, so I figured it&#8217;s a good deal.  Why not cordless?  Mostly because it&#8217;d be just one more battery to charge.  Also, with a laptop, I don&#8217;t forsee the need to require the mouse to be far away from the computer.  I love the wireless mouse I have for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/computers\/fozzie.htm\">desktop<\/a>, but it just didn&#8217;t make sense for a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Seems pretty good.  Smaller than a desktop mouse, but not as small as some Microsoft notebook mice I have seen, so it&#8217;s still comfortable to hold.  Cord wraps around the bottom and snaps into place.  Feels pretty sturdy and solid overall, even the scroll wheel.  Not a terribly exciting upgrade, but worthwhile and a good deal.  Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike most people, I really do like touchpads on laptops. I think they&#8217;re an intuitive way to use a pointing device. Because of this, I&#8217;ve exclusively used the touchpad on Camilla in the time I have had this laptop. However, once in a while, I really do a lot of work in one sitting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}