Mouse recommendation for faster speed

[BCrosby]

I am looking for a mouse recommendation. I am using Autodesk Inventor on a Windows 7 machine with dual screen, one 30" and the other 24". My current Dell mouse can't seem to cover the screen real estate quick enough or without me actually having to pick up my mouse. My settings in Windows for mouse speed are all the way up. I'm not sure what to look for in a mouse to solve this issue.

[BCrosby]

I am looking for a mouse recommendation. I am using Autodesk Inventor on a Windows 7 machine with dual screen, one 30" and the other 24". My current Dell mouse can't seem to cover the screen real estate quick enough or without me actually having to pick up my mouse. My settings in Windows for mouse speed are all the way up. I'm not sure what to look for in a mouse to solve this issue.

[BarryZA]

I have a Logitech G500, that goes up to an eye-watering 5700DPI. At the moment I have a dual screen 22 and 17" (don't ask) and set on about 4700DPI is plently for me.

Plus the mouse has lots of programmable buttons. I have enter, esc, CTRL Z, CTRL Y, CTRL O, CTRL S, and page up.

AND it even has removable weights to customize the feel

It's big in the hand, which I find very comfortable and comes with about a 1.5m long braided cord. What more do you want.

[mpatchus]

Are you using an optical mouse?

Using a mouse pad?

My optical works as you describe if I use the desk surface instead of the mouse pad.

[BCrosby]

I am using an optical mouse on the desk.

[BCrosby]

I will look into that mouse. Thanks.

[BCrosby]

The reviews on the G500 aren't all that great.
http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/g500s-laser-gaming-mouse

[pball]

I have a logitech M310 at work and a M510 at home. I can easily scroll across two 1920x1080 monitors in one swipe of my wrist.

[BarryZA]

I've had my G500 for a good 1.5 years, I spend 8-12 hrs a day with the thing, sometimes 6 days a week. Perfect so far. I do think what the gamers put their equipment through can be extreme.

Thats why I have a GT graphics card, don't tell me CAD cards need to work harder.

[dgorsman]

Actual mouse shouldn't matter, just the speed is high enough to cover the entire screen over the available wrist movement.  Keep several exercise toys on hand to keep things stretched properly.  I also keep a solid black, fabric top mousepad.  It gives a solid background for the laser, lets me mouse over the gap between surfaces, and the soft top lets me agressively mouse around without a constant SCRAPESCRAPESCRAPE noise, even the occaisonal SMACK is very muted.   Every few months it goes home and through the clothes washer to keep it clean.

[cadlad]

Increase the DPI, the higher the DPI the less movement it takes to move the cursor. Check out the Cyborg RAT 7, gaming mouse. Lots of customization both hardware and software, which includes tabbing through DPI modes on the fly on the mouse body.

[-niels-]

I use a Wacom tablet, which gives me absolute input over a mouse's incremental movement.

But i will add that not a lot of people have this setup, i'm just used to it because i also do graphic work.
(it's always fun to see people get behind my machine and start searching for a mouse)

[BarryZA]

Interesting... Someone just gave me a Wacom, but I have 2 problems with it.

It is the baby one and it as no zoom.

I am left-handed, and I use my space navigator with my left hand.

But I can see the potential of the Wacom, in the right hands I believe it will be faster than a mouse. And it looks like they basically last for ever.

All I use mine for is to pan ACAD drawings.

[-niels-]

No zoom shouldn't be much of a problem when you have a space navigator 😉

I have a first generation Bamboo, with the zoomwheel/pad on top and hardly ever use that because of my spacepilot.
The tablet can also be used left-handed, but then you'd need to relearn using your spacemouse... so time to get ambidextrous... 😄

As for lasting forever... yeah, except for the tip in the pen there is very little wear.
(and even the tip gets replaced seldomly)

Btw, there are also Wacom tablets with a mouse.
Seeing as you can also set those to "pen mode" it would give you an "absolute mouse"...