Laser mouse vs. infra red mouse

[Happy Hopping]

What's the benefit of laser mouse over infra red mouse? I am using inra red mouse for a long time, sometimes, when I highlight a paragraph of the text, something is off, and it highlight the wrong selection. I assume laser mouse don't have that problem?

With the good old roller ball mouse, I don't have the above problem, but of course, we live w/ the dust contact problem w/ roller ball mouse

 

[jcll2002]

lazer mouses you can use on different surfaces, rough ones that you cant use with optical. its also more accurate

someone else can probably give a better response though

 

[Happy Hopping]

Well, my mouse is always on a flat surface. And I don't do any work that requires a cross hair. Just general work w/ internet browsing, general 2D charts/graph.

So by more accurate, is it enough improvement for the above or needed for that matter?