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Agreed, I'd have gone G7 if it had the 2 side keys. Now that I dropped the money on the G19, I went and spent money on the most expensive mouse too, heh. I tried an X8 out first, more because I was seeing less complaints about it than the Mamba, but I ended up not liking the feel of the X8. My hand wanted to ride too far back on it for my thumb to be at the side buttons, and when I made myself move it forward, because of the way the rear end of the mouse is designed, it made the mouse rock backwards. I'd seen someone else complain about that.
So I ended up going down to Fry's and picking up a Razer Mamba, at least I could easily return that if I didn't like it. I love it. It's got a very nice feel and it looks sexy. The only thing I could want that it's missing is a tilt wheel, but I only expect to miss that 2 or 3 times a year, I know I didn't use it often on my MX1000. And that packaging is, well, pimp. Not that it matters once you've taken it all out and put it aside, but it sure does give a nice impression. PLUS, they actually give you a printed out manual showing you what the buttons are and how to program them, unlike the G19.
I work at home and use a KVM to switch between an iMac that I use for work and my Vista 64 system for personal use, both devices work fine with the Mac. I hadn't bothered to look into Mac drivers for the G15, but I see they exist now for the G15/G19, and the G19 screen works fine with it. In fact, regarding my previous bitching about the lack of a demo on the PC if you don't install from the CD, I downloaded the Mac driver and the first time it fired up, it played a Mac specific demo for me. So I'd rate the Mac version of the Logitech SW better, go fig. There aren't Mac drivers for the Mamba, so you can't do fancy things with it, but it works as a basic wireless mouse ok. What were you going to do anyway, play games on a Mac??
And as the other person said, I'd agree, the G19 is better than the G15. Is it worth $200 (or $170 from Dell using a coupon)...shrug, depends on if you like spending money. Which I obviously do
I had no problem dropping $70 or $80, whatever the price was for the G15 when it came out. I'd still like the G19 to have a list of say $150 to hopefully get more support for it.update: ok, now that I've tried working with the Mamba on a Mac, I'd say eh. Mainly because the back/forward buttons are acting the same as the middle button, which is to activate universal scroll. And without Mac drivers, you can't edit that response. Oh well, guess the MX1000 sticks around as my work mouse.
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