A lot of dashslotters seem to rave about those Kensington expert mice. Their trackballs look nice too. I think they are pricey, though.
I think my modes of preference have typically gone tablet > thinkpad clitmouse > trackball [esp. for FPS] > anything else, as long as it is wired and optical. At that low end, you have a lot of options, and not much separating them at all. If you're a heavy mouse user, invest some money in a quality pointing device, your wrist will thank you! Otherwise, you usually just want something that is comfortable and works.
I'm pretty boring as far as keyboards go, I hate all those useless extra buttons keyboard manufacturers stick up the top, cluttering things up. Add to that, desktop keyboards ALL have too much travel, and include that "Num Pad" [does anyone actually use that thing?], and miss out on useful features like META, SUPER and HYPER keys, for example. I think, until cheap Art Lebedev Studio
Optimus Maximus clones hit the market [ten years, if ya lucky], the best looking option might be to
hack an ordinary keyboard.
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13
