+1 on the Natural Keyboard.
I also replaced my mouse with a 3M joystick-type mouse because I was getting niggles in the back of my hand from too much mouse-wheeling. http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ergonomics/home/products/ergonomicmouse/ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2011 8:02 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] OT Mouse Hmmm, I also wonder (speculate) that if the nature of your work is such that a track-pad is adequate that you are simply using it less frequently/intensively too. Not intended as a disrespectful or derogatory remark, just an observation based on the typical relative precision/reliability of a trackpad vs a mouse (in my experience... ymmv). Having said that, apart from form designing or navigating the file system I know I for one use the keyboard (MS Ergonomic) perhaps as much as 90% and probably even more on any given working day. Never-the-less I ensure I have a mouse that suits my hand. My hands seem larger than average as holding most mice I end up forming a "claw" with my fingers, so I favour the larger rodents. Similarly I haven't looked back since adopting the MS Natural Keyboard in the mid-90's, my current preferred board being the Ergonomic 4000. I do recall a time many many years ago, only after about 3 years in the software development game where my right index finger "seized up" around the first (tip) joint after a day of particularly heavy clicking thanks to some diagnostic process I had to devise involving lots of message boxes. It was fine after a couple of days but was a contributing factor toward my leaning toward the keyboard as far as possible for such things. On 31 October 2011 22:46, John Bird <[email protected]> wrote: Nah - tiny movements and most gentle tapping of finger on a the trackpad. The only disadvantage is high precision stuff a trackpad is not so good for, but with various gestures (and more coming) . You know the idea - "Less is more" People never used to get RSI on a VT52 keyboard - that was an experience in a keyboard with a heavy touch motion and a separate shift key to do key repeats with. I liked them. Most of you have never seen one I bet. John It probably would help with RSI etc because you are working at 25% speed. I find a mouse pad way too slow. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
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