Mouse cleaning

[Tim Anderson]

<problems with optical mouse sticking to the pad (Pepsi Syndrome) and
 scratching the opti-pad deleted...>

And the tech-support hotline laughed at me when I stated that I'd rather
have a mechanical mouse!

Granted that when the opticals run they run better.

Unfortunately in the 'real' world we have 
to deal with things like DUST, HAIR, COFFEE, COKE, dropping books on
that stupid opti-pad, etc, etc... On my Microsoft (tm) mechanical mouse 
all I have to do is pull out the mouse ball, clean out the dust bunnies,
put it back together and I have a new mouse. The opti-mouse, however, is
junk if I happen to loose the opti-pad, scratch the opti-pad, or (heaven
forbid) want to try to turn the opti-pad 90 degrees. I won't even tell
you about the time that we accidently swapped the opti-pad with another
mouse's opti-pad when moving 5 computers to a convention...

A choice between opti and mechanical would be nice!

tima at agora.hf.intel.com