Logitech Cordless Click!(TM) Plus Optical Mouse (930951-0403)

Rating:
Summary: Good Ergonomics, but no Precision
Review: I expected this mouse to be as/or more precise then the optical explorer mouse I had from Microsoft. Once the MS mouse stopped working correctly. I bought this mouse. I have to say it fits my hand perfectly, but has many bugs. It will for instance: not record slight movements in opposite directions correctly, will sometimes just stop working only to start working 5 seconds later.

It's so buggy and it's not even funny. Save yourself the money. I installed / reinstalled drives, checked-rechecked, read-reread manuals. It still works like crap. Please buy another mouse then this.

Rating:
Summary: How did I live without a corldless before?
Review: I've had this mouse for a year now and I love it. It is used everyday, several hours per day. This is my first wireless mouse. Since it's used with my laptop in my living room, it's been operated on my wicker coffee table, chenille furniture, my dog (etc., etc.). It is always consistent no matter what surface I use it on. I keep the computer powered-up through the day and the mouse always connected-- the mouse batteries usually last about 2 months (two AAs).

I'm using XP and did not have any problems with installation.


Rating:
Summary: I hope you're not considering buying this mouse
Review: It's not worth it:

Pros:
It looks ok

Cons:
Button placement*
Battery life**
It has almost no battery saver feature***

*1 button is place where you almost has to 'break' your hand to press it

**It eats tons of batteries... I've had this mouse for 1.5 months, and during that time it has used twice as much batteries than my previous mouse (cordless mouseman) used in 6 monhts

***Whenever I turn off my computer, I have to take the batteries out of the mouse, otherwise there's no battery left for next day

Rating:
Summary: Don't buy if you are left handed
Review: My main gripe about this mouse is the product manual doesnot say it is suited for right handed people. I do have other complaints read on..
The mouse has two buttons to the left side of it near your thumb if you are a right hander. These two buttons can be configured to perform different operations like forward, backward etc. Now if I use this mouse in my left hand my little finger brushes over those buttons and invariably I press the forward or backward buttons. So I have to be conscious of not pressing those buttons. If you are left handed don't buy this mouse.

Now you may ask me, why not disable those buttons. Alas I can't do that. I have installed the Logitech's mouse driver software and it replaces your standard "control panel->mouse". It has a drop down menu where you can configure the buttons. You always have to map it some function here. You cannot map it to a "NONE" operation.

One other inconvienience with this mouse is, myself and my wife we frequently change the mouse buttons, she being a right hander and me a left hander. The mouseware software with logitech is so un-userfriendly you have to do multiple operations for the simple task of switching the primary and secondary buttons.

However the mouse responds without any lag and is pretty good. If you are right hander you can probably buy it if you don't mind the cumbersome mouseware software.

Rating:
Summary: Super mouse for long-use
Review: This is my third mouse in about 18 months. This one will stick around awhile, I think. My last 2 mouses werre Microsoft Wireless mouses - Wireless Optical Blue and Wireless Intellmouse Explorer. Both were certainly adaquete, but had issues: The Wireless Optical Mouse Blue was a small for my hand, and the mouse was jerky. The Wireless Intellimouse Explorer was a huge leap further. 2 Extra buttons, much larger, and much more ergonomic. The mouse was still a little jerky but significantly better.

Both Microsoft mouses had a common issue. I was frequently accidently clicking the right button. Some corded mouses gave me this issue too, but it was by far most pronounced on those wireless mouses. So that was a criteria for my next mouse - a better right button. I tried both an MX700 and this mouse (Cordless Click! Plus Optical) and the MX700 had the light touch right button. The CC+O, however, had a vert stiff right button. Not so stiff as to prevent intentional right clicks, but to prevent accidental ones. So if you're like me, and find yourself unintentionally right clicking a lot, consider this mouse.

Furthermore, the extra buttons are nice. The Back/Forward buttons, while not tremendously useful, are nice. The real surprise though, was the "Quick-Switch" button located south of the wheel. I assumed it would be useful in games (just having an extra button), but shockingly, it's extremely useful in Windows as well. Clicking it pops up a menu duplicating the taskbar listing the windows that are open. Only - the list is sorted such that it is _extremely_ easy to switch between two windows. The top entry will only change between the active window and the window you're alternating with. It's useful for multiple windows as well, but seems to have been designed for two amongst many.

Ergonomically, this mouse is nice (though a bit smaller than my old Intellimouse). There are curved ledges to rest your thumb and pinky on, and to hit the forward/back buttons, an upward twist of your thumb is all you need. I did find my pinky dragged alongside the mouse, but it was less than with any mouse except my Intellimouse.

The biggest downside to this mouse is the driver. Both MS mouses let me customize the buttons actions on a per-application basis. In iTunes, or Winamp, for instance, I could make forward/back correspond to next/prev song. Logitech forces this on a system-wide basis. The other thing is that in games, the extra buttons on the MS mouse, back/fwd just showed up as extra buttons 4 and 5. On this mouse, games don't even recognize they've been clicked. The workaround is to go into the mouse properties in the Control panel, and specify Back/Forward/Quick Switch to correspond to keystokes - but here, options on a per-application basis would be far better than having to switch the options going between apps and games.

Despite the negative, this is the best mouse I've ever owned. I would only suggest it if you have the right-click problem I do - otherwise, the MX700, though more costly, offer an extra 2 buttons and needs no batteries.