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Summary: VERY NICE!
Review: I would of givin it 5 stars, but it does feel a bit made for smaller hands. I happen to have a small hand. Really like the fast movement of the mouse than with the roller ball type. A very Big Difference in the feel! Very Smooth! Definitely recommend this one for the smaller hands. It feels it gives the correct ergonomic feel to it. No need for a mousepad cushion for the wrist. Faster response, less manuevering.
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Summary: Great Mouse!
Review: If you are in the market to buy a cheap Optical mouse, this is the way to go. Optical mice are far superior to their mechanical predecessors, and this mouse is relatively cheap (when compared to the Microsoft mice). If you can afford it, I would get the Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical instead (because it is more comfortable and it has two extra buttons that are EXTREMELY useful), but as a basic optical mouse, this is great. It is especially good for laptop users!
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Summary: Excellent product for sure!
Review: This is great!!!!!! :) I love this mouse. It's a must buy definately. First off: you NEVER have to clean it! Secondly: This thing will work if I use it on my head! (I have normal somewhat short hair... it works perfect!) Works on carpet, on a chair. Doesn't do so well with glass/transparent surfaces, or white, but otherwise it works very well. Oddly enough if you're sitting beside someone and trying to use it sideways, it doesn't work very well. (It's something to do with the angle I hold it or something). However that circumstance is rare. It's very nice looking and very precise! It's just as good as any microsoft mouse, and the price certainly is right! :)
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Summary: An incredible mouse for the price
Review: I absolutely love this mouse, its a big step up from that nasty thing that comes stock with most computers. I first tried the logitech mouseman (45-50 dollars) but found that it was to large and switched to this mouse. For people that like to rest their hands on the pad this is a good mouse, for those that like to rest their hands on the mouse the mouseman is a better choice. The scroll wheel is low resistance, which I like a lot, the movement is incredibly smooth, and there is a 5 year warranty. If you don't already have it, get one. :)
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Summary: It feels so liberating ... and so smooth
Review: Quite amazing ... a true liberating experience for those who had years of titanic struggles with a rollerball's gunk problems. Logitech is well known to make great mouse products and this one proves it. Everything feels smooth, it glides smoothly, and it has smooth colours on it. The mouse stays true to form when I tried it on reflex games like QuakeIII and Unreal Tournament .... so what more can I say? You must buy it, because from now on I am spoilt with this wonderful piece of gizmo and will never, ever, tolerate rollerballs again.
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Summary: Some Driver and wheel problems 4 1/2 stars is about right
Review: Overall this is a great mouse and much better than the entry level optical mouse Microsoft is sporting (I own both). "cheap" sound? The Logitech mouse's construction is much more solid Microsoft's offering. what sounds cheap is the sound the MS mouse makes when you set it down. The only two complaints I have about this mouse deal with the scroll wheel. First off, the scroll wheel can get a bit loose at times, which can cause problems in games. Secondly, while the included software is good, but it causes problems in programs which natively support scroll wheels (like IE). The mouse can work with or without the drivers installed. If you like the drivers I suggest you also get the patch off the logitech site which fixes the scroll wheel glitch for games. if you don't use the drivers, get a third party ps2 rate adjuster so you can take advantage of the best feature of this mouse: the tracking. for you spec heads out there, my first gen optical logitech mouse tracking rate (for ps2) tops out at 130hz. by comparison my MS optical (with its "second" gen laser) tops out at 100hz.
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Summary: Too Small For BIG Hands
Review: It is a GREAT product. It has no delay in going across the screen. It is a product made for small hands but if you have bigger hands you might want to keep shopping.Its appearance is slick and appealing. I reccomend this product to those who rest their palm on the pad or if you have smaller hands.
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Summary: An Excellent Mouse
Review: This mouse has no problems, no matter what others say. It doesn't sound cheap, and it's not too small. And so what if it isn't ergo? I hate ergo devices. Mice were designed to move a cursor across the screen, not to make your hand feel perfectly comfortable. I don't see why a normal mouse isn't comfortable anyway. And of course the fact that this mouse is optical just makes it that much better. The only downside is that the software is terrible. It adds functionality, but also takes it away. I think the mouse works better and more intuitively if you just plug it into the PS/2 port and use it as is. If you want to use it in games (such as counter-strike) you need to leave the software uninstalled, or the wheel won't function properly. Fortunately, the only problem is the software, and the mouse is perfect.
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Summary: If the Swiss made mice, they'd have this kind of movement
Review: I have bought an insane number of pointing devices. I'm not sure why that is, exactly, but I'm sure that therapy will probably be needed to unravel the mystery. The practical upshot, however, is that I've owned and/or tested just about everything that's come on the market in the past few years--and this little device is right at the top of the list. I find it to be far superior to its Microsoft competitor, which seems to be less fluid in its movements. Often, I've had to pick up the Microsoft Optical mouse from the desktop surface in order to "reset" it. Plus, when doing detailed graphical work, the Microsoft's tendency to randomly jump a few pixels is really annoying. Maybe my particular Microsoft mouse is a slight lemon, and in fact there's nothing generally wrong with the device, but for whatever reasons, I've had much fewer problems with this Logitech version. It's easily the most fluid, responsive pointing device I've ever used--outside of a graphics tablet. I am baffled, somewhat, by other reviews which comment on it's less-than ergonomic design, or its appropriateness for small hands only. After all, an "ergonomic" mouse almost certainly means a mouse that is designed for right-handed users. This more egalitarian design can be used by hands of all persuasions. Nor do I notice any unusually "cheap" clicking sound when I press the mouse buttons. It is certainly slightly louder than other mice I've owned, but it's hardly a sound connoting bad construction. About the only problem I've encountered with the device, in fact, has to do with the controlling software. If you're buying this as a replacement for a Logitech device already installed on your machine, you do have to take care to uninstall all that old software before proceeding. I found that one game I play got really confused when I just installed the new Logitech MouseWare over the top of what was already there. All the problems cleared up, however, when I manually uninstalled all Logitech MouseWare and then did a fresh install. Having said all this, and recognizing that the cord provided is a fair bit longer than most mice provide, I am intrigued by the future availability of a cordless version. I have a cordless Logitech roller ball mouse, and like the freedom it offers. If Logitech manages to pull off the same fluidity with the cordless version that they have with this one, it will be very hard to continue to prefer this one. In the here and now, however, I really doubt you'll find a better, more precise mousing experience than the Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical.
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Summary: Too narrow to be comfortable, unless you have small hands.
Review: Optical mice are great, for the reasons everyone else is saying here. There are two annoyances with this product, however. If your hands aren't tiny, the mouse will be too narrow. This is a problem because it is much more tiring and possibly painful to grip a narrow mouse over an extended period of time than it is to grip a wider one like the Microsoft mice. The second annoyance is fairly trivial--the mouse emits a noisy 'clink' that sounds a little cheap when you press the buttons. I got this mouse for a computer I'm building for my girlfriend; I have both a Cirque touchpad, which is my absolute favorite pointing device, and a Microsoft Intellimouse with OptiEye, a discontinued optical mouse that is very nearly the same as their other optical mice. It is very comfortable, and works great. If you ever experience any sorts of pain associated with mouse use, I highly recommend using a touchpad instead. The benefits are that you don't have to grasp ANYTHING, you can move the cursor with a very slight touch, and you don't even have to beat the tips of your fingers up from constant clicking, since the lightest of taps on the touchpad surface achieve the same result. In addition, you can set a touchpad on or against your leg at the same angle that your hands naturally rest in at the side of your body, rather than twisting them to the horizontal surface of a desk. The bottom line is that the tingle I was feeling in my hand, wrist and lower arm from constant mouse use went completely away once I started using a touchpad. Like an optical mouse, there is never any cleaning or moving parts, either, which makes them much more reliable than other mice or trackballs.
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