[brianloveswords]

I actually try very hard to do everything with the keyboard. I'm an emacs zombie, though I'm sure the vim-o-nauts would agree: mousing is just really inefficient.

BUT! It depends on what you do. Occasionally I have to break out the graphic design “skills” and for that, I have my Mighty Mouse. I don't know that I would recommend it, it's pricey, some people like having a tactile right click (me, I just disable the shit because it's a fucking farce on the mighty mouse anyway, getting it to work reliably is impossible and I have no problem with holding down an extra key for context menus). It depends on what you plan on mousing around on. My advice is to just keep getting the cheap $7 Logitech opticals and try more keyboard, less mouse.

[qwph]

That's interesting. I recently bought a (cordless) Mighty Mouse, and I'd never noticed any problems with the right click on mine. Perhaps yours is a bit flaky? It sounds like it's not affecting your usage anyway.

I do agree with maximizing keyboard usage (as I tend to spend most of my time in Vim). I was suffering from "mouse thumb" and recently did an experiment with my office PC. I removed the mouse completely and turned on the MouseKeys accessability option (using the numeric keypad to move the mouse pointer around). After a couple of days, it felt as natural as using a mouse, and my thumb felt a lot better.