I find the Mac mouse acceleration to be the best implementation I’ve yet found for low-to-medium precision mice, and likewise for every trackpad/trackball I’ve ever tried. ¹ I think - the mouse does not have a human-readable model number printed on it nor does it say anything useful about itself to the Mac What's the general consensus here about whether Apple or Microsoft are more in tune with how their customers operate mice? Being lazy, I move the mouse solely with my wrist in a claw grip, whereas if you move your whole arm you don't need anywhere near as much a speed boost. This depends in part on how lazy you are. Obviously everyone's mileage varies, and someone here has already said that he doesn't like acceleration and turns it off entirely. I have no idea why people can't standardise on what speed the mouse reports back to the computer, since it's not as though the MS Comfort Mouse 4500 is marketed as the "Crazy mouse for people too dim to find the cursor speed slider".) (I do struggle a little bit, possibly owing to the hyper acceleration needed with Microsoft's own lumbering lummox mice their Comfort Mouse 4500 though was fed steroids as that's way too far in the opposite direction - a falling speck of dust landing on it will move the cursor halfway across the screen. For me, Windows succeeds perfectly in giving me good "swing" around a large desktop (3200×1200 at work) yet retaining very intuitive low speed tracking. I've always found Macintosh pointer acceleration to be slow and unhelpful, while Windows pointer acceleration always seems natural no matter what version of Windows it is and no matter what mouse anyone has. I have enhanced pointer precision turned on, whatever that does. In Windows, I have a Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical 1.1 with the tracking speed at notch 10 (of 11!) as the IMO has very sluggish tracking compared to most mice (equivalent to notch 4 or 5 of anything else). The mouse is a Logitech Laser MX200¹ and I have the tracking speed on notch 7 (of 10). Every time I start using it, I struggle with moving the mouse accurately for a while, as it seems to swing between "glued" to "on drugs". I still use a Macintosh running Tiger, and one of the things I notice about it is just how awkward and finicky its mouse cursor acceleration profiles are.
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