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 Love it or hate it; not much middle ground December 4, 2004
Sean Henning (Denver, CO, USA)
32 out of 34 found this review helpful
The ergonomics on this mouse are either wonderful or terrible, depending upon how you hold it.
Wonderful: If you rest your hand on it with thumb and pinky finger resting in the side grooves, it feels fine. If your hand is the right size, this mouse becomes a semi-luxurious hand cradle.
Terrible: If you hold the mouse in pretty much any manner other than that described above, it's terrible. A sharp edge running down each side of the mouse catches at your joints in a manner that is at first just vaguely irritating, and eventually (after hours of use) distracting and uncomfortable.
Test drive this mouse on the display shelf at your local CompUSA/Best Buy/Office Depot/Whatever. Close your eyes and rest your hand on the mouse. If your hand instinctively molds to its surface, don't waste time looking at other mice. You've found your mouse, and you won't be disappointed.
If your hand does not immediately accept the position suggested by this mouse's design, move on and don't look back; you'll never get used to it.
Unfortunately for me, I fell into the latter category. After about 10 hours of continuous use at work, mine went back to the store. It's a shame, as this was otherwise a quality mouse.
-sean henning
PS - this mouse does not work with my KVM (IOGear MiniView Plus 2 port PS/2 + audio: B0000512HI).
 smooth moving September 3, 2003
Jadecat (Lake Orion, MI United States)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am no computer whiz and have just replaced an 8 year old computer with a new, modern one. That meant getting rid of the old keyboard and mouse. I wanted to start fresh. Before, I had an old style, rolling ball mouse. I thought it worked okay at the time, but after I bought this one (it's optical, and not a rolling ball one), I was surprised by how much more stable this mouse kept the arrow key on the screen. The scroll down wheel on the top of the mouse is a wonderful extra. Instead of having to click and stay on that darn bar on the right side of the screen when you want to move a page up or down, you just roll the wheel on the mouse with your finger and it does it for you. I will never get a mouse that doesn't have that feature again. This one also has a neat feature of having two little buttons on the sides that act as your back button and your forward button. So when you want to go back to the page you were just at, you can click it with your finger instead of dragging the mouse to the back button on your screen. Super convenient and handy. There are mouses twice the price of this, but I can't imagine them being any more nicer to use. Plus I got mine on sale, so I am very satisfied with it.
A quality product that delivers November 25, 2004
Serious Shopper (Portland, ME USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just like one of the previous reviewers, I had a MS IntelliMouse and didn't think I could ever find another that I liked as much, in spite of it's occasional nasty little habit of flipping out on me, which meant I had to reboot, and then it would be fine. Looking back, I don't know how I put up with it for so long. One of the reason I love this mouse so much is because I have a small hand (size 5 glove if that helps you) and it fits perfectly in my hand. Very comfortable to use and I'm at it for ten, twelve hours a day. The back and forward button placement is superior to the MS mouse and much more solid and responsive. I use the scrolling wheel constantly for my particular work. The quick switch program selector button is incredible and suits my work to a tee, as I usually manage to have at least ten windows at a time open. You just click the button and up pops a menu of every window you have open, and it's in nice big print. With my old mouse, I had to keep "reigning it in" but not with this one. Very little movement required to zero the cursor in on whatever. This is an overall excellent product and I'm now sold on this brand. I would say Logitech = quality.
great mouse for Mac OSX October 5, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's no longer a tragedy that the Mac only comes with a pathetic one-button mouse. If it came with a two-button one, it probably wouldn't be as good as this one anyway. For less than $30, you could be right-clicking, scrolling, and customizing other buttons with this baby! Nice and smooth, good feel to the buttons. Oh, it's probably good for PC's too.
 not a great 5 button programable mouse March 1, 2004
Khue Q Ngo (Florida)
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
I just bought this mouse and wanted to get rid of it right away.
Drawbacks:
1. The Switch Application button (the one on top) is located way back. I always have to curl my finger hard to press this button.
2. The palm rest is two high and it feels like you do not rest your palm at all. Sometime, it hurts your ankle
3. The Back button is designed way back. I do have to pull my hand back to be able to press this button => extremely inconvenient
4. The Forward button is located on the right, I rarely use it since it hurts my little finger everything I tried to locate and push it
5. The software does not work instantly. Sometime, it takes a few seconds to close the application compared with instantly by selecting Close application button on the application window.
6. If you use mouse a lot while surfing internet, I do not recommend this mouse. You are not able to combine relaxing your palm on this mouse and using all 6 buttons at the same time.
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