Andy’s Blog

In My role as an I.T. train I meet many different people from all backgrounds.

One of my newest students suffers with Cerebral Palsy. When we first started our lessons we made steady progress but a recurring theme was mousing difficulties.

We tried many things, increasing the mouse sensitivity, different mats, different mice all with varying degrees of success but still the usage of a mouse was a problem.

After attending a gaming LAN I turned up for a tuition session with my Razer diamond back still with me, and whilst unpacking my paperwork the obvious hit me.

Within a couple of minutes the drivers were installed and the mouse connected.

The first test was interesting, I’ve never seen a mouse pointer whizzing around the screen so much, after 10 minutes practise and a little tweaking with the in-built control panel, success.

Activities that would normally take a couple of minutes could now be done in next to no time and with much increased accuracy.

Why?

Without messing to much with the windows settings the average mouse operates at approx 400 dpi, the Razer had a dpi of 1600 3 times the sensitivity and with the drivers in place this seems like a lot more.

An action that would normally require 3 inches of mouse movement could now be completed in less than 1, meaning that with limited movement the same actions could be completed.

So if you need that extra sensitivity, precision or speed and not just for gaming why not try a high quality pro or gaming mouse.