Razer Nostromo or Naga?

[Snowreap]

that kind of mouse wouldn't work well for me because I don't move my mouse with my hand, I move it with my fingertips (specifically my pinky and thumb). my wrist rests on a stationary cushion so my hand is mostly motionless except for a bit of side-to-side pivoting. the bulk of my mouse movement comes from my fingers. my palm actually doesn't touch the mouse, unless I'm moving it down.

Razer calls this the "fingertip grip": http://www.razerzone.com/mouseguide/ergo...gertipgrip. they say that it gives you the most control and agility, but at the cost of the worst hand fatigue and learning curve, when compared to other grip types.

I learned to mouse on Sun2 and Sun3 Unix workstations. the mice on those machines had three buttons and were relatively flat (not more than 3/4" tall) so holding them on the sides with thumb and pinky was natural. and because they were optical mice and had to be used on specially imprinted reflective mouse pads, you also learned to be economical with movement, since the mouse wouldn't work if it went off the edge of the pad.

-ken