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- The scroll wheel is atrocious. It's a complete gimmick. "Frictionless" scrolling means your page is going to shift on you even when you inadvertently graze the wheel, and the faux mechanical setting doesn't scroll consistently with each notch. Utterly useless.
- It's not balanced because all the weight comes from the AA batteries, which means the mouse tracking sucks at high DPI settings.
- Logitech removed the useful up/down scroll buttons and third thumb button from the MX1000.
- The rechargeable battery in my MX1000 is 5 years old, and still lasts a week on a single charge. AA batteries would cost another $20+ if I had to replace them every 3-6 months for 5 years.
The MX1000 had it's share of flaws, but, overall, it's a much better mouse. Rather than fix it's shortcomings, Logitech got caught up with gimmicky technology (starting with the revolution series) and screwed up their line. Sad.
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The up/down buttons are replaced by the wheel, yeah. Similar, but not the same. I like it more though.
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1. My hand tends to stick to the desk/wood/particle-board that I'm using.
2. The underside of the mouse stays clean. Standard Microsoft mice with the large "feet" on the bottom tend to gum up quick, and get stuck.
3. It's quieter than listening to the mouse go CLUNK... CLUNK... CLUNK every few seconds.
4. Related to #2, I find mice generally always track better on mousepads than solid surfaces. Not to mention there are some surfaces that laser mice just will not work with. We have some desks at work that are sprayed with this kind of smooth, black powder coat. Laser mice refuse to function normally on those desks at all.
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But, I keep my desk pretty clean and sprayed down so I very rarely need to clean the feet of the mouse. And the clunking never crossed my mind. Though I was also never a person who got annoyed by things like pencil/finger tapping, whistling, humming, etc.
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My G7 doesn't like to track on wood very well at times, so the mouspad had to be brought back out.
Plus, when it's a bare or finished wood surface versus say, a plastic surface, I'm more worried about damaging/dirtying the surface. Mousing areas tend to pick up an amazing amount of gunk on them. It's kind of gross really.
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now if only they made aluminum external keyboards for when I get a macpro
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Step 2: Cut said metal into mouse pad
Step 3: Sell to morons
Step 4: Sleep on bed of money "stolen" from people dumb enough to think this is a good idea
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This can also be used to patch bullet holes in jet airliners, paired with chewing gum to plug leaks in a submarine, and be thrown at an assailant like a spinning aluminum mousepad of death.
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Plus, laser mice do not work on all surfaces. I've run into several times where a mouse pad was required in order to use a laser mouse due to certain desktop treatments.