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QPAD XT-R Mouse Pad Review
Christian Bakke writes "QPAD is famous for their cloth mouse pads. But they are now producing hard surface mouse pads too. ClubFnatic looks at the brand new QPAD XT-R hard surface to see how well it performance. This mouse pad is supposed to be worth 47 which is of course a lot of money. The reviewer tries to see if the pad is worth this much money with cheaper alternatives available." I use a hard mouse pad from func.net on my living room chair arm, but given the 20 odd free mousepads in the office, it's hard to consider paying for one.
47... what? Rupees? Yen?
It's worth 47 what? Dollars? Pounds? Yen?
Seems a pointless purchase anyway, I use an optical mouse directly on the table.
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Most people don't work in IT, and don't get free mousepads. Unless you're trying to brag up your uber-mousepad collection on slashdot? Ok, that makes more sense. Carry on.
Of course, down in Kakariko Village it'd be five rupees, six tops, but today you're shopping with Tingle.
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47, expensive? 47 what? Rupees? Pounds? Dollars?
People still use mousepads?
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Obviously it's worth 47 first posts asking if they meant rupees, yen, chickens, or virgin sacrifices.
I actually read the article. As of right now that's US$58.8064
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
After trying various "high end" mousing surfaces and being disapointed by all of them (they all start to wear down after a month or so, in my experience), I have been using a 12" x 12" slab of Ubba Tubba granite. It works wonderfully with my MX518 optical mouse. Nice and slick, and she ain't gonna wear out! It's certainly not going to move around as you mouse. It stays relatively cool to the touch. Plus, it's just classy as hell. I windex it off every couple weeks and she's good to go.
a t=135 Ask a local tile store. They'll have lots of cool stone that will work great as mousepads.
Stuff like this: http://www.kreana.com/Catalog.asp?MainCat=60&SubC
I know it's sunday and all, but come on.
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~10 years ago and never want anything else. It was expensive those days, but today you get them pretty cheap. That's the only mousepad that lasts longer than it's user ;)
Does anyone notice that this artuicle does not have a "From ABC department" subtitle
Beacuse if you have a 'traditional' wood desk, and just use your desk's top surface directly, you will end up wearing away the finish and putting a 'rut' into your desk.
If you have one of those masonite tops, then i agree.. why bother.
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Indeed, let's "see how well it performance". And to think they turned down my submission about Dustin Diamond (Screech of Saved by the Bell fame) getting his house reposessed. C'mon, he's the ultimate geek!
R u kidding me, what a rip off. I have this genius mousepad. It came with my 286AT and looks brand new even now. Hard plastic, yeah baby.
Would it be too much to ask to post reviews that don't appear to be written by twelve-year-olds?
Where's the ubiquitous "It must be a slow day at the /. Editor Desk" posting, questioning the newsworthiness of a posting like this?
It's needed.....
I haven't used a mousepad since opticals were available... going on 10 years at least... what's next, buggywhips for our motor-coaches?
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My favorite mouse pad what the gray plastic one that came with Mario Paint. and does any one remember the mouse clear? I don't know how you live go with out one before optical mice.
This looks like a Everglide Mouse Pad. I've started using Everglide Pads back in the Tribes 1/2, BF1942, BF2 era and I highly doubt THIS pad can compare to the original.
For G*d's sake, it's a mouse mat!
47 euros.
crazy.
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Free mouse pads are everywhere. My bank, video store, and nearly everywhere else around me hands them out on a regular basis! (I have been cutting them up to use as a sound dampening material in some of my projects... ;) )
I found a MemoryFoam mousepad and never looked back! I purchased one for my laptop, then another for my desktop! It is SOO Confortable!
Me big Uggabongo. Bestest mousemat tester in world. See how well it performance.
Any pro level gamer here? Do these mousepads maken a difference with laser mice instead of a piece of cardboard or something? I'd presume modern laser mice really work the exact same on nearly any surface, no?
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For the last 3 years, ever since I got an optical mouse, I have used a piece of paper as a mousepad. I wouldn't even use that, but the surface of my desk is somewhat uneven.
Are they saying that gamers use non-optical mice? (it's been so long I can't even remember the correct term.) Seriously, and I thought high-end mice where for gamers....
Im sitting here in my Sunday chair and I cant think whats worse? 1. That I am replying to this article 2. That I read the other replies to this article 3. I clicked on the RSS feed to actually *read* this article Votes will be collected and tallied unfortunately I think they all tally to say that Im an idiot today :)
47 for a mousepad? That's chump change. THIS is a mousepad
Mousepads like this are released every day. Unless its something amazing, we don't care to read about it, least of all on the FRONT PAGE OF SLASHDOT.
I'd like to read a review of one of these, however: www.corepad.com
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the Razer eXactmat. It cost me 50 SGD($34.99 USD), comes with 2 surfaces(rough/smooth) for different mouse sensitivities and it's quite big compared to a func to boot. I am using the rough, aka "control" side, with my Logitect G1+ mouse. Good enough for FPS gaming, precise enough for Photoshop too.
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I hear it adds 10hp to your computer to use a $50+ mousepad as well. Too bad the reviewer forgot to paint the edges of the pad blue for maximum performance, and they also didn't provide any statistics as to accuracy with case badges applied versus without.
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Is he reviewing a high-tech product or a fashion accessory? Oh, wait...
~$26 for a 10"x12" sheet of tempered, rounded, colored glass with rubber feet seemed a little steep, but I'll be hanging on to this thing for years. My MX510 mouse (the model previous to the MX518) glides like butter across the surface, and I'd never go back to a normal pad.
Only two minor downsides to this type of glass mousepad:
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Yeah, I don't get it either. I haven't used a mouse pad since I got my first optical mouse. They track pretty much flawlessly on any surface. Others here have mentioned that they use them for gaming (which I haven't done on a PC in years) or that they use trackballs. I love my Kensington Expert Mouse trackball, but it's about 10 years old and mechanical, thus requires frequent cleanings. I could get a new one, but $100 seems like a lot to spend on something that's not functionally any better than the $20 Logitech 3-button scroll-wheel-equipped optical mouse I have right now.
Take a peice of white paper. Take a peice of transparency. You might want to wash off any coating now or is will come off later. Tape the paper and the transparency to your darkly coloured desk. Your optical mouse should now work.
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In Soviet Russia, the mouse pad owns you!
I am using OLD HARDCOVER BOOKS as mousepad for years now. Theyre cheaper, bigger, feel better and much more robust. I killed 10+ mousepads before that and none of them have been nearly as good and robust ad ANY blue hardcover book. Rough (unprinted) blue or brown surfaces of my dad's old scool books and atlants work best.
I hold my optical mouse quite still in one hand and move my other hand around underneath it.
At first I tried moving the desk, but that just scuffed up the wood floors.
...to edit the damn articles! ;) The spelling. The grammar. Seriously, that was one of the worst postings I've seen on /. Not to mention the fact that I really didn't need to read a review of a mousepad.
Here's a tip: smell your mousepad. If it's cloth or foam, and you've had it for a while, it will probably smell like catfish bait. Buy a nonporous mousepad and clean it regularly. That is literally all you need to know about mousepads.
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My favorite pad is the one I designed for myself at CafePress http://www.cafepress.com/randomvariable.43609878
Alas, they don't carry hard mousepads, or I'd definitely have done that. But my pad is still an excellent optical mousepad.
what a way to waste money. i remember vga cards used to be cheap also, and afterthought compared to the pc. now they are easily 10x the price, all because of hype. considering that these pad must cost tens of cents to make, i think the company has a good business plan no matter what i think.
I guess I don't get out enough. I never knew that there were ANY famous mouse pad manufacturers.
Cheap ikea type furniture from office max with a fake wood veneer doesnt track very well because the printed wood grain is coarse enought that it looks like a newspaper (lots of little dots) to a mouse.
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I have found that a mouse pad has become redundant. I recently got the Logitech G5 with teflon pads, and I haven't found a need to ever use a mouse pad again. The pads never gum up and cause friction to slow down the mouse and the high resolution tracking is enough to track well with the wood grain on my keyboard tray.
Perhaps for those people that go to LAN parties, bringing in your own mouse pad where you never know what surface you might have to play on is important, but I can't see spending that much money for a sheet of textured rubber. Also, why does it have to be big? I thought most FPS gamers turn up the tracking on their mice so that a small twitch is all they need to perform big moves in the game, having to drag your mouse across near a foot of mouse pad kind of defeats the purpose of it being for gamers. I myself can get from one end of the deskto to another with only 2 square inches of desk space.
But, I guess there is a niche market for people that feel they need a mouse pad, those that believe the optical mice won't track accurately without a quality texture and surface to track on. That some how the material use will give them an edge on gaming that putting a mouse on a regular desktop won't achieve. In any case, if you can make that much profit selling $1 worth of materials for that expense to those kinds of people, more power to you.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
I'm still using my free (with purchase of the game) Duke Nukem 3D mouse pad I got ages ago!