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I just have to say that the Logitech MX-700 cordless optical mouse is great. By recommendation of everyone on the internet, I recommended this mouse to a fat friend of mine for his new system I built for him. He wanted a wireless mouse, and I said that the MX-700 has had great reviews from anyone who has ever used the thing. So when slickdeals came along with it for $50, I told him to buy it then (i didn't get one at the time since I have a generic wireless keyboard/mouse from logitech), so he did. It came in the mail yesterday, so I hooked it up, and played with it a bit. I was not disappointed. When I used that thing, I shook it all over the place, and no skips. My free cordless from logitech (they gave out a bunch free if you didn't know, was about 2 months ago) skips whenever I whip it around, which is rarely other than to watch the mouse cursor go in random directions. The forward/back buttons on the mouse doesn't fit me nicely, maybe because I have long thin fingers. The scroll wheel is very smooth. Their "cruise" buttons doesn't fit my hand nicely, have to move my middle finger back too much to use the down one, which is much more often than the up one. Their task switch button is just plain stupid, since only a 3 year old kid's hand would be small enough to reach it easily, unless they want you to use your whole palm to push the button, then they made it way too small. The laser, oh the laser... They are a great. My mouse uses the horizontal position for the laser, and its pretty weak. You can stare at it without hurting your eyes too bad. The microsoft optical mouse I use for my notebook is a vertical one. Its pretty weak, and doesn't pickup motions as well as my logitech cordless. But the MX-700? Its like a huge flashlight compared to these other opticals. Its atleast twice the size of the others in diameter, and maybe 4x brighter. You look at that light for a split second, not even having to point it directly at your eye, and it blinks you for a bit. Its like comparing staring at a flashlight at 10 yards vs staring at a car's highbeams at 10 yards. But that huge tube of light does have its downsides: the battery dies pretty much overnight (or so I've heard). My low-end cordless uses weak 3 year old rayovac rechargables, which I change over with a backup old pair thats already charged maybe once a week. So over a week's time, I only get bothered to change my batteries once. The MX-700 would drain those same batteries in 3 hours (figured by math + multimeter). So what do they do to fix this problem? The receiver is a recharging station. So when your not using the mouse, you place it in the charger, and it blinks yet another light from your computer system until its charged (which is pretty fast, compared to my rayovac's). Their 'feature' of being able to charge the mouse without having a computer isn't a good one, though it has its reasons I'm guessing. You see, the USB connector (also comes with a PS/2 adaptor) has a power-cord that you have to plug in. This allows you to charge the mouse without having to have it connected to a computer, and probably also allows it to charge the battery much faster, but they used a power block instead of a small connector. So for most people, you have normal width cables for your case and your monitor, maybe another one for your printer, a block adaptor for your speakers, and another block adaptor for your mouse. For those of us who have 4+ computers in a room, that starts to eat up power strips pretty fast. I'd hate to see how many strips I'd have up when I move to a townhouse for college. Point of story that rambled way too much? A++++++, good deal, would buy for myself. (Once it goes sub $50 again.) |
