Mouse movement issue

What's with the movement of the mouse for macs. When I move the mouse slowly, the cursor moves slowly. I checked the preferences already but none. Is there any other option to get rid of this annoying feature.

 

Yeah I noticed the same thing when I first got a mac. Definitely an annoying feature. The mouse movement is ultra-slow compared to windows. Supposedly that is normal for the mac.

I installed the Microsoft Intellipoint software on my mac and it gave the mouse the "normal windows feel." I didn't even need a microsoft mouse (or any mouse at all) to install it. I was actually using only the touchpad and then a logitech mouse.

 

Yes. that drove me completely insane until Budding was kind enough to point me to http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30303 which lets you turn off the ridiculous acceleration. (After running the program, I got better)

 

Erm, what exactly is the problem?
You want the mouse to move at the same speed regardless of your finger velocity?

And holy crap, did you actually finally get a Mac vaio_boi???

 

Hollownail, it's not the trackpad, but if you plugged in an external mouse to a mac, the acceleration system would kill you straight away. It's like uberunbalanced. The cursor barely moves (literally, like 1 px on screen per cm of mouse movement or something) if the speed of your mouse is below a certain threshold, and goes absolutely insane the second you bypass that point. It's absolutely mad.

 

I must be lucky (or am just used to using many different environments) as I quickly found touchpad settings on the MacBook that were fine, and have used three different mice on my MacBook that also seemed fine with minor adjustments.

What mice are you having issues with? I've used a Kensington Bluetooth, MightyMouse Blustooth, and a Logitech Wireless. The Logitech and KEnsington used the stock driver.

 

Well, I've experienced problems with the Logitech MX300, MX518, V270, and the Mighty Mouse all using stock drivers. Maybe it depends on taste, some people can bare with and even like the mouse acceleration. Others, like me, can't live with it.

 

In my case, it was the touchpad that drove me nuts. It was exactly as Budding described. I could not move with any speed until I'd passed a certain threshhold, at which point, it was in a corner of the screen.

 

The touchpad has been fine for me from the start, just minor adjustments. I plugged in 3 generic USB optical mice and all of them were OK as well - the speed in each one was different and it needed some adjusts, but that's all.

 

I am talking about the cursor moving very slowly when I move the mouse slowly and then if i move the mouse fast, the cursor moves fast as well. But it's not just a bit slow, it has a bit of delay.

 

I've heard about this quite a bit but I have never experienced it. (Or maybe I just like it how it is)

I DID however change the tracking settings etc. in the System Pref so maybe that's something.

 

Aside from that, how well did the V270 performed? I was thinking of getting one.

 

A bit off topic, but compared the USB mice like the MX300 and MX518, the V270 utterly sux in my opinion. It's slow (not as rapid or responsive as the wired ones - not surprising, as it's bluetooth and requires like 0.1 secs to activate if you don't move it for about 5 secs), heavy (2xAA batteries), and the buttons take a bit more effort to click (playing diablo2 on it for 2 hours or more gives me wrist pain - something the MX mice never give me).

However, for a bluetooth mouse, it does it's job perfectly. It has an extremely impressive battery life (1 month with it on 50% of every day, and still perfectly fine), extremely impressive range (I swear it's more than 10 meters - some of my m8s jacked this the other day and were using it from the lab next door - and it worked), and is quite responsive once you get it moving.

Note that I was comparing it to high grade performance mice from Logitech in the first paragraph, so I suppose that is a bit unfair. You can ignore the first paragraph if you're not planning on using it for gaming.

 

Too bad, I was thinking of playing Warcraft 3 with it. I guess I will just use a generic USB mouse. A BT mouse is interesting because it frees up one of the USB ports and it's less bulky, but... besides I've never experienced this accel problems you guys reported with wired mice.

 

What about this?

 

I also think the v270 is junk. I liked it at first, but it eats batteries and it drops connection a lot. Even when the mouse is right next to the unit, sometimes it just stops working for a bit.

 

Oh? Haven't experienced that with mine yet. Perhaps you got a lemon.

 

I wholeheartedly agree, and I mad as hell that a lot of Mac users don't seem to get the point. Uberunbalanced and huge distances for one or just a couple of pixels is the right wording.
The "acceleration" only lets you control the mid and upper speeds, but the lower speed remain untouched - it's super uber stupid if you ask me.

Can't wait to try those tools. I guess I found the one single thing I like about windows: the mouse. ha ha

 

I thought, rather than create a new thread, I'd bump this one from a little bit ago. I've tried to get used to the default acceleration curve... it's not happening. Just recently I was on my windows laptop with this same external logitech mouse, and it reminded me of how effortless interfacing with the computer can be.

I tried SteerMouse, and it was nice. Not as nice as Windows, but I think to myself, maybe I can tweak this into something almost as nice. The problem with SteerMouse though, is that it takes away my right click. It adds a "middle click" functionality, but removes the "right click", replacing it with a "context menu". What in the hell was that programmer thinking?

I tried iMouseFix as well, and no dice. It doesn't feel right either. Isn't there a way to just make the cursor move as it does in Windows, without idiotically disabling functionality for no **** reason?

 

Install the microsoft intellimouse drivers. I linked to them in my first post in this thread.

 

Thank you for the kind thought. Those drivers don't do anything with my logitech mouse though, I'm afraid. :/