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I bought an MX500 from Newegg to replace my 1 year old trusty MX500. I would have went with the MX510, but I was a bit leery due to stories of the button surfaces being so smooth that they collected crud and dirt so easily. So I held off.
Now, mind you, in August 2003 I bought the MX500 when it first came out, and I bought it from my local Staples. It is the best mouse I ever had, and just recently the buttons started becoming flimsy; thus was my reason to replace it.
When I bought the MX500 from Newegg, it came in its retail box, as normally expected. However, upon opening it, it was immediately obvious that this new mouse was "cheaper" in quality. On the new one, the gray texture was smooth instead of gritty, as it was on my old MX500. The buttons felt flimsy from the start; unnatural and would sometimes either need to be clicked harder or softer. The rubberized texture grips were no longer "rubberized"; they felt more like hard plastic.
So I did what any [H] guy would do and opened the mouse up. Voila, looked like major design differences. The PCBs on my original MX500 were black and had a Logitech logo on it; the new one has Chinese markings and the PCB is your regular cheap brown.
So what the heck happened here? Why is the same model so different and so cheap compared to the first? If I go to the MX510, will I have this same type of cheapness factor to deal with?
Now, mind you, in August 2003 I bought the MX500 when it first came out, and I bought it from my local Staples. It is the best mouse I ever had, and just recently the buttons started becoming flimsy; thus was my reason to replace it.
When I bought the MX500 from Newegg, it came in its retail box, as normally expected. However, upon opening it, it was immediately obvious that this new mouse was "cheaper" in quality. On the new one, the gray texture was smooth instead of gritty, as it was on my old MX500. The buttons felt flimsy from the start; unnatural and would sometimes either need to be clicked harder or softer. The rubberized texture grips were no longer "rubberized"; they felt more like hard plastic.
So I did what any [H] guy would do and opened the mouse up. Voila, looked like major design differences. The PCBs on my original MX500 were black and had a Logitech logo on it; the new one has Chinese markings and the PCB is your regular cheap brown.
So what the heck happened here? Why is the same model so different and so cheap compared to the first? If I go to the MX510, will I have this same type of cheapness factor to deal with?