That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://garbi.online/forum/
Please do! For some reason I'm strangely intrigued by this...Valael wrote:Well, a guy I know bought one and got it today, so once he posts impressions, I'll let you know what he thinks.
Before I had to give up mice, I used an MX700 for more than a year. It was absolutely fantastic for gaming.Chaz wrote:I've been using a Logitech Mx700 for gaming for over a year now. I've never had a problem with response time or lagging, even in FPS. I tried a wired one again a few weeks ago, and the cord hitting things drove me nuts. It's all wireless from here on out, baby!
Been using a MX700 for 2 years now. Will never use a corded again. It gave me a little trouble late last year and I called Logitech about it. They sent me a MX1000 free but while I waited the 2 days for it to get to me mine stopped acting up so I still have it unopened as backup.map wrote:not to go too far off topic, but does anyone use a wireless mouse for gaming?
Effectively infinite. It uses built-in batteries, and charges in a cradle when you're not using it. Mine lasted a good twenty hours of heavy use on a two-hour charge. Put it in the cradle when you go to bed, and batteries will never even be a concern.Faldarian wrote:Derail time I guess, but how was the MX700 (or similar option) on battery life?
That's the major concern that keeps me from going to any kind of wireless option, but if it's not a big deal at all I'll probably go grab one.
Yeah same with me. I can use it over 12 hours...forget to charge it that night,,,and use it another 10 or so before it wants to be fed.Faldarian wrote:Derail time I guess, but how was the MX700 (or similar option) on battery life?
That's the major concern that keeps me from going to any kind of wireless option, but if it's not a big deal at all I'll probably go grab one.
ok here's my official review:
In a nutshell
Don't get it. You're better off with a mouse that was specficially and ergonomically designed for human hands. A round mouse is not ergonomic at all, as I find out the hard way. I reverted back to my trackball.
In detail
The mouse software is okay, but it looks like something someone just threw together in 2 days to make a deadline. That's my engineer side of me talking. However, the software does offer something that my trackball driver doesn't, which is the ability to setup profiles and to map buttons to virtually anything you want (a keystroke, a prolonged keystroke, keystrokes with modifiers (ie shift, ctrl), etc.) But I'm sure an MX518 caliber or even lesser mouse will have the same thing.
The mouse itself is pretty small. I have pretty small hands, and I can't imagine people with bigger hands using it. It has the four buttons up top, which are decent. No problems with them. I pretty much had it setup so that the my index finger rested between the first two buttons and then my middle finger ..!., rested on the last two buttons, and so were controlled by those respective fingers. Then it has these 3 hidden buttons on the side. The side is made of some kind of rubber material, but you can't feel these 3 buttons AT ALL. There are two ways to know that are buttons there: 1) look down on the mouse and there's a little image on the base plate, 2) have the mouse positioned and held correctly so that your ring and pinky finger is holding the area where these buttons are. I figured out how to use the latter. My problems with them is that you have to hold the mouse in a certain way, ie kind of cupping the mouse with your fingers, so that you can press these buttons on the side. It's not very ergonomic doing so, and I refuse to do it.
Also with these hidden buttons, its very hard to know how much pressure to apply to them. Because they are hidden by a rubber membrane, you have to apply enough pressure to the membrane to transfer the pressure to the actual buttons. Well the problem is that the membrane itself is hard enough to where, you don't really feel it go in when you apply the pressure. Just imagine holding a glass and pressing the side.
Another nuisance I found with the mouse is that the fucking thing locked up on me. I mean, all of a sudden, it would just stop moving the cursor. I had to unplug the usb connector from the pc and plug it back in. One thing that caused it, I think, was that when I applied new settings to a profile without a name, it did it. But other times, it did it successfully. I also had my trackball still connected, but im not sure if that caused it. It just seemed buggy to me.
Now, I used the thing for gaming for a couple days. So I don't have an accurate review in this case. I was able to kill some people, but it was difficult for me, just because of the position i had to have my hand in to move it correctly. I think if I kept at it, I think i could adapt to it, but in the expense of a non-ergonomic position.
For those rare times when I forget to cradle it and it gets low on power, I keep the wired MS mouse that came with my system on my desk. Miraculously, WinXP picks up the fact that I've swithed my mouse without a hitch (only one cursor shows on the screen). Score one for Gates.Blackhawk wrote:Effectively infinite. It uses built-in batteries, and charges in a cradle when you're not using it. Mine lasted a good twenty hours of heavy use on a two-hour charge. Put it in the cradle when you go to bed, and batteries will never even be a concern.Faldarian wrote:Derail time I guess, but how was the MX700 (or similar option) on battery life?
That's the major concern that keeps me from going to any kind of wireless option, but if it's not a big deal at all I'll probably go grab one.
The battery didn't get its full charge until I had drained it and recharged it two or three times, but after three years, it still holds a full day's use on a single charge.