My friend has one of those gamer keyboard-and-mouse pairs that attempt to look sleek and dangerous and that have black plastic with colourfully glowing sections and names like 'the Viper' or something (actually, I think the mouse was a Rat). The keyboard is very clicky but apparently very nice to use once you get used to that. He showed me the macro keys, I guess they can be set to alter common computer functions or insert chunks of text and so on. I suppose that could be very useful once you realise a need for it. Myself, I am content with the cheap laptop keyboard and a cheap optical USB Logitech. But Eric Raymond has some things to say about* keyboards including the Model M: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4975 Also there was a guide to mice originating on 4chan, and when I tried to find it again I found there was quite a few: https://www.google.com/search?q=4chan+mouse+guide.
Good luck. -Arlo *It was at this point in typing this email that my mouse decided to be ironic and ignore left clicks. Thankfully I still had the trackpad. And then it went away after about five minutes. Edit: siiiign...reminded me of a reference I could not find a good link to.
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