Update: I received the mouse today and played around with it for a little bit. Here are my observations Overall Look/Feel As much as a right handed mouse is supposed to feel better in my right hand than an ambidextrous one... I definitely prefer the feel of my old ambidextrous M$ mouse. I also prefer the symmetry of my old mouse as well. This just looks off. I've seen right handed mouses that look a lot more balanced than this. It's not so bad that I wouldn't use it, though, but it's far from a good looking mouse. The button position is never going to please everyone due to differently sized hands. My hands are larger than average, and most of the buttons are placed well, with the exception of the wheel. The wheel is way too far towards the center to work comfortably. Add that to the fact that the wheel button is slightly hard to click and you've got a bit a problem. Hopefully I can get used to it, but if not, this might end up in a drawer. Accuracy I haven't spent much time tweaking it, but so far, it feels a little jerkier than my M$ optical. I don't have a lot of faith in the 8m mouse to dongle working area claim so I'll be plugging in a USB extension and seeing if that helps. The scroll wheel feels jerky as well, although it could be the lack of smooth scrolling configurations in the generic windows mouse interface (that I had previously with my intellimouse software). Zero Button Remapping Capabilities Who sells a mouse with buttons that can't be remapped? This is ridiculous. I tried installing the 8 button Logitech software in hopes that I could use that to remap my buttons, but, alas, it didn't recognize the mouse. From what I can tell, it has no interface of it's own and only uses the default 2 button + wheel interface that comes in the windows control panel. Neither MS nor Logitech would EVER pull this garbage. I did some research into 3rd party software. Autohotkey, an open source app, will remap 7 of the 8 buttons. This helps tremendously, although there's a bit of learning curve involved. Since the only reason I bought this mouse was for the extra button functionality, I had to find a workaround of my 7 bucks/time on the rebate would have gone down the drain. It took about 2 hours to figure everything out. Mapping the buttons took some reverse engineering/quite a lot of time. So you don't have to go through what I did, here's how all the buttons map (following the diagram on the inner flap of the manual): A XButton1
B XButton2
C ^WheelUp
D ^WheelDown
E can't be mapped
F MButton Left mouse button LButton
Right mouse button RButton And, although your assignments will differ from mine, here is how my script looks (the semi-colon is for rem functionality/explanation- autohotkey ignores everything after it when it runs the script): MButton::!F4 ; wheel button closes the window
XButton1::Run www.altavista.com ; button A launches altavista
^WheelDown::Run www.google.com ; button D launches google
^WheelUp::Run www.yahoo.com ; button C launches yahoo Latex Allergies It's difficult to tell, but it looks/feels like the sides of the mouse are rubber. For those with latex allergies (1% of the general population but probably much higher for indoorsy computer nerds like us  ) this could be a problem. Edit: 1 week later and I've come to my final conclusion. This mouse is crap. The tracking is jerky and erratic, and, regardless of how much you tweak the settings, it never gets smooth. I can live with funky button mapping workarounds, aesthetic issues and latex, but I can't live with jerky tracking. See ya mouse, you're going in a box. |