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Why is my mouse skipping? Laser Vs Optical Mouses Explained

2012-10-06
okay Queen bucha how are you tonight I got your request to explain as to why your mouse would not be working properly so basically it doesn't matter if you have a Mac or a Windows computer a mouse is a mouse and it's going to run you know on any computer if it's USB port and the drivers support that operating system so anyway basically there's two types of Mouse's right you're probably your problem is most likely because of this basically there's two types of Mouse's and I've gotten both here for you to see this is a laser mouse which actually uses a laser sensor I can't see it with the human eye but you may be able to see it from this camera as it'll copy the may be able to see the actual laser now the laser if you can see the more I pull it back the light source is still the same strong light source regardless of the distance which means that this this will track on any surface pretty much you can track it on you know reflective surface it'll still do pretty well because it's a laser and this is on the right here this is an optical mouse okay so this as you can see I can clearly see this as well it's a red light especially a red light that if I pull it away the light source gets weaker so it's basically the optical mouse is only suitable for a non reflective sort of surface okay so if you use this optical mouse even on this lack of timber here you can easily see that the laser mouse performs just as well as a would on a non reflective surface pretty much but if I put this optical mouse on for instance this desk since this desk is lacking a bit this optical mouse starts to sort of glitch a bit so the basically the difference is is that yeah if you're having problems with your mouse it's most likely it's an optical mouse and what you want to do is you want to get a non reflective sort of surface for your mouse to work on this is an actual custom gaming mouse pad and yeah as you as you can tell it's non reflective and it works really well both Mouse's work exactly the same like they work really well on this mousepad however this mouse is more versatile so if you're traveling and you were you know you didn't have a mouse pad with you I'd recommend getting a laser mouse as opposed to an optical mouse but laser mouse is at the same time are also generally more expensive because they're using the laser so generally that's just in a nutshell what is happening here is basically you're using probably I guessing you're probably got one of these Mouse's that's an optical mouse and you're probably just using it on or a reflective surface and it's causing you problems so those are if you get a you can either do two things you can either get a new mouse pad that's not reflective or you can get a laser mouse so it's up to you so these are this is the laser mouse this is the infrared or optical sort of optical sensing mouse so they're both really good and when I use them on this mouse pad they both from really well so if I use them again if I say if I use this on the reflective surface this will perform a lot better so anyway I hope this has helped you out tonight and if you got any questions let me know and I'll be sure to comment as soon as I can and if you guys got any other requests you want me to do and want me to look into I'll be glad to help you alright guys peace out for now
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