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Thread ID: 83952 2007-10-19 04:32:00 Silent mouse and keyboard Advocar (1098) PC World Chat
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603026 2007-10-19 04:32:00 I have a W--e with very sensitive hearing????. THE CLICK CLICK CLICK of the mouse drives her !!!!, Keyboard less so. DID BUY a keyboard with pad a while but while less quite, there are still clicks and nowhere as quick and easy to use.
Are the expensive gaming laser mouse's quite? any ideas? removing the w--e or PC from lounge not preferred option.
Advocar (1098)
603027 2007-10-19 05:06:00 Hmm.

Maybe some of these will be useful?

link 1 (www.engadget.com)

link 2 (www.makezine.com)

link 3 (www.berm.co.nz)
wratterus (105)
603028 2007-10-19 09:24:00 Don't use the mouse. beeswax34 (63)
603029 2007-10-19 09:29:00 I can't remember.. but there is a programs that clicks the mouse for you when you mouse over for a set amount of time
those might be handy if you don't want to click on the mouse
heni72847 (1166)
603030 2007-10-20 04:01:00 Buy a tablet, or if you have 6 grand lying around, one of these (www.gpstore.co.nz) goodies. Alternatively just get a tablet PC while you´re at it. gnail (6819)
603031 2007-10-20 05:30:00 HP touchscreen time!!!! beeswax34 (63)
603032 2007-10-20 05:44:00 Buy earplugs for w..e? lakewoodlady (103)
603033 2007-10-20 05:59:00 Time to trade the wife in? LiquidSolidity (1589)
603034 2007-10-20 08:44:00 I have 2 mice - neither of them expensive models.

I also have very good hearing.
One is so quiet, I defy anyone not setting alongside me to hear anything from it.
The other I can "just hear", but I find it hard to believe it could bother anyone else a few feet away..

So what model is this "noisy mouse" which upsets your wife?
You say it's noisier than the keyboard.

My keyboard is another matter entirely. It's also a cheapie, and yes, it does click. And anyone trying to listen to it would notice noise from close up.

Which brings me to - what does your wife spend her day on?
Obviously not an office setting...
And what is she trying to do when the clicks "drive her !!!!!" ? That is, what are you disturbing?
Even if she's fortunate to live in the country, that too has background noises.
Most of us can mentally shut out extraneous noises - if we really want to...

Have you considered that it may not be the noise that bothers her as much as the fact that you're tapping away when she has other ideas about how the time could be spent?

Like talking to her instead of the computer?
Laura (43)
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