Monday, May 14, 2012

Of Mice and Keyboards for man...

How lovely, I have something to rant about...So my office issued me a Logitech m705 mouse to go with my workstation. The mouse is not bad, it has excellent tracking and a grate momentum scroll wheel. I do however have one major concern and one minor one. Firstly for those of us with carpel tunnel you know how difficult it can become to move each finger individually, due to this the mouse has one major pitfall for being an ergo mouse. The designers made the right click button quite easy to press, on the order of about 1.35 PSI compared to the left click button at about 3.75 psi...if you can imagine my right click button is so light that accidentally brushing it with my finger causes it to click and with repeated left clicking even applying pressure too far back on the button causes the right click to go off. The other thing I have to complain about is the thumb button and the slider pads on the bottom of the mouse, they are also very poorly designed and not well thought out. The thumb button is easily clicked with the mouse is lifted and pressure is applied on the sides of the mouse. The slider pads on the bottom of the mouse have a problem sliding after some use. This in turn also causes the mouse to stick to hard surfaces like my desk or mouse pad and then results in me having to unstick it from said surface which usually leads to me pressing the thumb button and followed by the right click going off from the weight of its own button coming down on itself as I set it down gently...so you can see why this mouse is well annoying. Like with any quality product there are some things that you sacrifice for the performance, I can confidentially compare this mouse to a DeLorean, very modern design with a high level of technological excellence and crappy development team with cost cutting on the mind. I am an avid Logitech fan, I have used several generations of their MX series with the latest model sitting pretty next to my ancient Logitech media keyboard which I have adapted from PS/2 to USB based solely on the fact the feel and response of that keyboard is orders of magnitude greater than even the most expensive modern Logi. My advice to anyone that uses a mouse avidly with CT Syndrome should consider the MX series mice. 

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First post, boo!