A plea to logitech

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Attean

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Can we please get a new version of the mx518 with better polling rate, higher dpi, and weights?

The g5 is great but the mmb is a travesty.

If you think this is a good idea, say so. I've wanted this for so long, and if it exists please let me know, you'll be my hero.
 
Attean said:
The g5 is great but the mmb is a travesty.
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What do you have against the MMB on the G5? It was a bit touchy for me at first and I'd end up scrolling sideways instead of clicking it, but it took very little time to adjust and feel natural. I just wish the horizontal scroll speed could be increased (can it?).
 
have to say that any direct improvement on the mx518 i would be all over. currently mine is still going strong (which is good)
 
Yeah, sorry, I started this thread because my g9 just isn't cutting it. It's uncomfortable and I paid $85 for it like a smuck. Now, I'm considering buying an mx518 but its features just aren't there, but I love the shape. I'd hate to pay $40 for another, worse mouse.
I tried the g9 for a while and while the features are great it just isn't the right shape for my hand, hurts after an hour or so of use.

leahzero said:
What do you have against the MMB on the G5? It was a bit touchy for me at first and I'd end up scrolling sideways instead of clicking it, but it took very little time to adjust and feel natural. I just wish the horizontal scroll speed could be increased (can it?).
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It is rediculously high and hard to press down. Not natural at all for me. The G5 also lacks the fifth button on the side there, inexplicably.
 
Attean said:
It is rediculously high and hard to press down. Not natural at all for me. The G5 also lacks the fifth button on the side there, inexplicably.

I tried the g9 for a while and while the features are great it just isn't the right shape for my hand, hurts after an hour or so of use.
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On the newer revision of the G5 the 5th button was added back on and I hear the scroll wheel has been fixed.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104076
 
yeah, that one has the two buttons back but the mouse wheel is still retarded strength hard to push.
 
Logitech needs to update some of its older designs imo. 518 would be nice, but I would kill for an MX1000 with a better receiver and battery in it. MX Revolution tried so hard to dump nifty features in the mouse it made it functionally useless for a lot of things.
 
Revolution's chassis is just a terrible shape compared to the 518. Mx1000 update would be nice.
 
Alright well I ended up getting a mark2 g5, we'll see if it's better than my g9.
 
shadowbreaker513 said:
Different shape, no autoscroll buttons near the wheel, and a lack of a thumb button (I use mine as a double click)
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You might've missed it but the MX1100 has just as many thumb buttons as the MX1000... The 1000 had that two button rocker plus a tiny button in the middle of it (which I never used, the app switcher). The rocker was very comfortable in gaming tho, imo. The 1100 has two standard thumb buttons plus a hidden 3rd thumb button inside the rubber curvature part of the mouse...

Sounds odd and not very ergonomic but it seems easy enough to press w/o being in danger of inadvertent presses, when I've tried it at the store anyway. I actually like the overall shape of the 1100 better than the 1000, it's a little bit wider and a little bit more like the old G-series without losing some of the grip of the MX1000... That's highly personal though.

My ring finger always seems to have no place to rest on the 1000 tho (the area around the right mouse button just isn't wide enough), feels a lot better on the 1100. The MX1100 is going for $55 after MIR on Newegg right now btw, you might've noticed the banner ad at the top, heh.

I imagine the auto-scroll buttons were nixed since they've added that free-scrolling wheel, you can't even map any of the other buttons to auto-scroll within Setpoint anymore I think... If you get used to the switching wheel it's just as useful if not more so though, again a matter of personal taste (I've gotten used to the wheel when using my VX Nano w/my laptop).
 
Anyone here own some of older Logitech mice from 7-8 years ago btw? Mouseman Optical and the sort (the one with the blue glowing logo)? There was one feature within Setpoint back then that I absolutely loved and somewhere along the way they killed it for no good reason...

One of the shortcuts you could map to the buttons was a small-ish box that would show up after the button press (about the size of four desktop icons), and within it there were 8 on-screen buttons to choose from... I think it was X (close), maximize, minimize, resize, jump to scrollbar, and something else. I found it really really useful, dunno why they ever killed it.
 
I want a newer MX518 with the following changes:
1) No faint high pitch whine from the mouse. I've used 3 MX518's over 3 years and they all do it, granted you only hear it when you hold your ear by the mouse, but it shouldn't be there.
2) A better body texture for the mouse so I don't have to clean it every day with a cloth.
3) The new scroll wheel from the MX Revolution and MX620.

Besides those, the mouse is perfection.
 
I'll probably get some hate for this, but..

I run two eve clients on my desktops; left hand uses a Diamondback and right uses a MX518. While the 518 is more comfortable at first, I find it much easier to navigate with my diamondback..

Try a razer?
 
i used the mx518 for along time, then upgraded to the gen1 G5 and LOVED it.. had to rma it and got the gen2 G5 with the two forward/back buttons and it was really nice to have that extra button back again but the feel of the surface its like nails on a chalk board to me. its rough and dry. i hate it.
 
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