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This week in the hardware review department, Inside Mac Games takes a closer look at the venerable mouse pad for the first time in more years than we care to recount. Once the loyal sidekick of the mouse (icon of the computer revolution), the mouse pad slowly became associated with the evils inherent to mechanical "ball" mice of the eighties and nineties. At the turn of the millennium, the advent of highly accurate optical mice seemed to spell imminent doom for the mouse pad. However, rather than surrender to the ever-changing tide of innovation and become a relic of a bygone era, the mouse pad has evolved, and indeed experienced a resurgence in the past few years. To learn more about this phenomenon and see one of the latest mouse pads in action, check out our quite abusive evaluation of the XTracPads Fat Mat by way of the link below.

IMG Reviews the XTracPads "Fat Mat"

Fat Mat

XTracPads

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