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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