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Apple's system mouse driver sucks... replacement?
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When I first installed microsoft's intellipoint drivers for my optical ms mouse, I realized that apple's system mouse driver was not nearly as accurate as Microsoft's. This is easy to see when switching between them and trying to circle a small object on the screen with your pointer. Using intellipoint was great, until yesterday when I tried to switch to logitech's new VX Revolution. Logitech's software is only willing to use the system driver, as their software does not include a driver selection of their own.
(I have attempted to leave microsoft's software still on, but it does not effect the system driver.
Has anyone written a replacement - or are their any hacks to up the accuracy?
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Last edited by Bruck; Jun 9, 2007 at 06:29 PM.
Reason: dup)
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i tried to ask for it to be deleted. duplicate because initial post was in wrong forum.
Sorry
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The answer is in the duplicate thread, USBOverdrive 
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usb overdrive did not help, but SteerMouse TOP seems to be exactly what i was looking for. Too bad I returned the mouse already and will have to go buy it again. haha
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Generally, people who don't like the Mac's mouse are Windows switchers. Mac people hate the way the Windows mouse works.
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Originally Posted by chabig 
Generally, people who don't like the Mac's mouse are Windows switchers. Mac people hate the way the Windows mouse works.
Can you elaborate? I use both, started out with Windows, and I am really not at all sure what you're talking about.
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I am referring to the "sensitivity" or accuracy of the standard apple mouse driver. If you use a mouse driver like microsoft's intellimouse one with one of their mice, (where you can swap from osx's default driver to ms's, you can notice the accuracy difference. Its subtle, but its there and once you use a better driver, it seems like night/day.
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I can't hit a target accurately on Windows. I always overshoot a couple of times if I try to do it quickly. The Mac mouse, on the other hand, is easy to control.
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