mouse for my macbook?

I'm going to buy a new mouse for my notebook. The only thing I'm doubting is whether I'm gonna take an optical mouse or a regular "ball"-mouse. Because I'm not going to use a mouse pad, so if I have to work on a white surface, an optical mouse can't function on it.

Besides, the mouse has to be normal-sized, not the one like mx500, which more look like a stone then a mouse. they are too large to carry on with. And it has to be 2-button mouse...

 

I don't know, I've heard of plenty of people using optical mice on plenty of different surfaces without a mousepad.

When you said "white surface", what do you mean exactly? Are you talking about using the mouse on the macbook itself, or something else?

You might also look at laser mice, wh ich apparently are even less picky about what surfaces they will work on.

 

2 words Mighty Mouse

 

I think you'd really want to try and spend some time using the Mighty Mouse - some people like it and some people don't like the scrollball and the way right-clicks are handled.

-Zadillo

 

The surface does matter, but only testing would find if optical works on surface A or surface B really. The more sensitive the mice get, the less the surface matters, so with today's laser mice I'm sure that as long as the surface is flat by some standard it will work just fine.

I'd say go for an optical, but test first if you can.

And I personally would rather use a "normal" mouse rather than an Apple one, personal preference though

 

Yeah, mighty mouse is a waste of money.
I ordered a Logitech v720 (or something like that) for $32 thats BT and 2 button + scroll wheel.
But yeah, I've noticed that optical and laser mice have all gotten a lot better about surfaces. The biggest problem are wood surfaces and certain types of glass surfaces.

 

I don't like apple's mice because you have to press the whole mouse down to click instead of pressing just a button. It's really annoying. But the laser mouse of logitech is soooo huge