Mouse precision problem on Mac - but not PC

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snowkiwi

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#69391 7-Oct-2010 10:04

I've just purchased a MBP 13" - Its real pretty.

But am having a problem with the pointer precision with any mouse. It seams to constantly do little jumps then slows - and I've tried 7! wired /wireless/ new /old /$25 to $150. All work smooth as silk on my PCs, but jump around on the MAC on the same surface, with almost no system load. It jumps the same on the windows XP/parallels 6 trial.

One thing is I like almost max tracking speed. Turning it down on the mac helps a bit but it still nowhere near as smooth as the PC and now its too slow. Luckily the Trackpad/gestures is/are pretty good (and I hate trackpads on PCs)

What gives - Cant find any solutions on forums just that PCs have more advanced mouse precision.

edit: all are standard laser tracking mouses

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gehenna

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#389089 7-Oct-2010 10:49

Try an app called SteerMouse, it might help.

snowkiwi

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#389110 7-Oct-2010 11:33

cheers- will try it.

snowkiwi

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#389321 7-Oct-2010 20:20

Steer mouse seams to work great thanks - will try a bit more before I think about laying down the US$20 for it.

I'd love to know what it is actually doing under the bonnet - the install seamed pretty lengthy with a restart.

I'm really surprised Apple hasn't sorted this themselves the forums suggest its been like this for several years at least

- everything else they do seams to just work - mouses... not so much

merve0o0

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#389988 9-Oct-2010 21:31

Yea I noticed the same thing when I got my iMac. Magic mouse is smooth but I just never liked it so I got a logitech performance m950 and it was jumpy and almost impossible to be accurate with. In windows 7 bootcamp it's fine. One thing I have noticed is that every so often when I restart the settings have reset them self to real slow.

I wonder if it an issue with the os mouse settings and the logitech settings conflicting.

I'm not sure if it has fixed it's self now but I've had the mouse for a few months now and I don't notice the problem anymore

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#390020 9-Oct-2010 23:28

some mice just need a good driver to work, and often they don't have mac drivers. i use steer mouse to enable/customise all the buttons on my mouse that apple doesn't recognise because there is no official driver.

pretty good app, i've owned a copy for years.