Chrome OS on my Acer C7 Chromebook has no support for mouse "acceleration"/DPI. It is almost as annoying as not having enough volume for the C7 speakers. While insufficient "on-board" audio can be mended by adding a pair of PC speakers (powered from AC outlet, or from spare USB port: I prefer former option), the lost acceleration makes majority of mice too slow (read: unusable) on C7. I'm lucky I invested into 6-7 buttoned Logitech mices a decade ago. One of them, the Logitech MX518 serves my C7 quite nice, because it has a hardware DPI switch that is recognized by CrOS as a mouse with different DPI. Even after full 9 years I own it, it still goes strong and sells at $36....$75 a tail for mice connoisseurs. Oh, and spare tail alone for it sells at about $5.
It takes 2 or 3 clicks on its DPI button to achieve a good speed for cursor in my Acer C7. Of course, it's nothing like using it in Ubuntu where I could also tune up the cursor acceleration and "ballistic" scrolling features that are mostly ignored in Chrome for Chrome OS.
To have an emergency clicker, I've got me this Logitech MX310 mouse:
Sadly, it's not the solution as CrOS remains slow and mice-dumb with this rodent: a button on top of MX310 that supposed to change the zoom/scale on the fly, doesn't work as DPI changer in CrOS. Of course, it can be programmed into anything in Ubuntu/Chrubuntu, but that's another story.
The problem with slow mice in Chrome OS is about three months old now, counting from the time I first have seen the complaint. All the bug reports, tickets, whatever were sent to Google devs. Or so Marissa swears, just like she did about low volume audio.
There's another glitch in Chrome OS that was recently discovered: Acer C7 has Bluetooth fully functional in Chrubuntu, but totally ignored in Chrome OS.
Google Chrome OS guys are seemingly up to their ears with work on Chrome OS for Samsung ARM Chromebook. For me, a today's ARM Chromebook is a dead end, but they might have other priorities in mind: schools, OLPC-like programs, kiosks, libraries, and the like. For them, my Acer C7 Chromebook is a dead end. Whatever. When the problem with booting Chrubuntu from an SD slot will be solved, I'll be out of very unloved Chrome OS on C7 most of the time. Good-bye ChromeOS, thank you for 100 GB Google Drive for 2 years and GoGo tickets which I have no opportunity to use.
Hello, Chrubuntu and Firefox, LOL.
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