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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.
Euros, but Slashcode filters out the Euro () symbol in submissions, pretty much like how it used to filter out the Pound Sterling (£) & Yes (¥) symbols.
I actually read the article. As of right now that's US$58.8064
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Pounds.
You know you *could* have clicked on the article to find out... I know that's way more effort than the average reader is capable of.
my family used to have a shop selling kitchen and bathrooms as well as a plumbers merchant's shop. We got about 15 mouse-pads yearly, at every trade show you would get about 3... it's just one of those things that people will stamp their logo on to try and make you think about their product at work or home... That industry is about as far as you can get from IT, I bet they still do it too, and I wouldn't be that amazed if loads of other companies did it as well
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Optical mice do not work well on glass desktops or surfaces that have certain variations in surface color (such as hickory).
I have an optical mouse, I get the best performance when using a mousepad. I remember in 8th grade, the school had a special computer for me to use in English class (my penmenship was shittier than it is today for some reason) I ended up using a folded piece of notebook paper for the mousepad on a ball mouse (Mac LC) and it worked like a charm.
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You mean the € symbol? You know, you'd think someone like an editor or something would look out for these known problems with slashcode.
47 for a mousepad? That's chump change. THIS is a mousepad
Yeah, I used to game professionally (and then I decided to go to college for a degree in 3D Animation so I could make the things instead of play them). I've played with super mouse pads and the like and in all seriousness I chose to use a piece of cardboard that had a thin foam layer attached to the bottom of it for three years because it was the largest and lightest pad I could find (and by find I mean I ripped the latex off of the sides a puffy children's Barney notebook I bought for a buck. Two pads, 50 cents each... not bad).
It makes zero difference as long as the mouse moves unobstructed. Honestly, I'm really intrigued by the granite idea someone posted earlier. All that really matters in pro gaming is that the mouse surface stay slick and smooth and that it's large enough for wide sweeping movements. I usually shot for 12"x12" cardboard. A lot of my competitors used Ratzpads, and if they'd been larger I likely would have as well just because they're cheap, light, and slick.
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~$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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I used to be pretty good at Q3 with a trackball, it was startling how easy "gross" (such as a 180) were, but finer aiming and such required much practice. For awhile I even managed to play my FPSs with a touch-pad, which was a total pain in the butt (though tap shooting was nice).
For the past couple years I've been using a decent optical mouse though. I wanted a scroll wheel and buttons for my non-gaming life, and they didn't have a decent left-handed trackball that could handle that demand (no, I refuse to use a right handed mouse/tack-pad). The mouse is MUCH better at finer motions and aiming, though the gross motion suffers a bit. A mouse is definitely the preferred way to go, in the end.
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Look at this trackball if you want something left handed. It's ambidextrious, and instead of a scroll wheel, it has a scroll ring. It also looks like it has 4 buttons. I haven't tried this one specifically, but I have a logitech, with a large ball (this one is bigger), and I have to say that the large ball makes it easier to control. I also find that using fingers works better than the thumb.
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