MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse w/Charger

dkgamez writes ""To make a long story short, here I am, with my dream - a cordless-optical-rechargeable mouse. You can't imagine how good I feel right now.""

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riight

[dr_labrat]

I'm sure HP have been selling something very similar for a very long time....

Re:riight

[Blkdeath]

As I pointed out in an earlier story, A4 Tech has been making a cordless optical mouse for quite some time - but it uses a much better charge mechanism - a USB charge cable. When the batteries run low, you simply attach the cable to the front of the mouse and until they charge, you're using a corded optical mouse.

Saves having to put the mouse in the cradle and sit there uselessly while you wait for it to charge (or, have a hot-spare mouse sitting ready to be swapped in ... )

P.S. - Does Logitech pay for these ads?

Not the first one...

[staili]

At least Dexxa and HP have similar products.

The long story.. is quite short

[jukal]

atleast at the moment " Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0113' Script timed out /articles.asp" :)

But I quess you mean the GyroMouse by Gyration, or maybe something else. Anyway, there seems to be atleast a dozen devices to fullfill your dreams - lucky you ;))

Re:The long story.. is quite short

[Dahan]

But I quess you mean the GyroMouse by Gyration

As the title of the story says, it's a "MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse." From Logitech.

Google cache

[staili]

At here.

I hope that is not the Maxell...

[pvera]

...that sells for about $30-$35 on CompUSA. I got one and it is a piece of crap (DOA, Mickey Mouse buttons, terrible cradle design...). The wife later bought herself a MS wireless optical blue which was a lot better (read: did not die after 2 days) than the Maxell. Later she got a MS Office keyboard bundle at Costco (it was so cheap that the mouse was literally free) that came with a MS Wireless optical Explorer, which is what I use now. Great mouse and it does not eat up batteries.

Scrollwheel bug

[doc modulo]

"Update: the scrolling lag is caused by the MouseWare. Until a newer version of MouseWare comes out, you can temporarily use the mouse without the MouseWare or with Microsoft IntelliPoint, which works perfectly with the MX700; the only drawback is that you will not be able to use the app switch button. "

Don't count on it. This scrollwheel bug has been in mousewhare forever, I've even sent them a detailed bug report, all I got was a standard letter back telling me to "use the newest MouseWare software version". They are never going to fix this bug.
I guess they are using a weird floating point algorithm to keep track of the scrollwheel, this ofcourse leads to rounding errors and this makes the scrollwheel not respond with some clicks, and skip 2 clicks at once with the next.

Which is very irritating if you use your scrollwheel during games. Want to switch to another weapon? Scroll, nothing, scroll, switches 2 weapon spots at the same time, die, D'oh.

The best way to fix the Logitech Scrollwheel bug is to install the MouseWare software, configure it the way you want, then stop the MouseWare process running in the background.

(Ctrl + Alt + Del then stop the EM_EXEC process).

With every reboot and reconfiguration of your mouse, EM_EXEC will be running again. To stop EM_EXEC at every reboot, delete the automatic startup entry in Windows Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...\...\...\Run\

Done, have fun playing, laugh at the idiots of Logitech's software departement.

Optical... cordless... rechargeable... mice

[srussell]

A couple of points:

To those who say this isn't news: it is. It may not be the first cordless optical mouse that comes with a recharging station, but it is the first from Logitech.

To those who say this is a useless product: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Don't knock it until you try one of these mice. I don't think there are many people who would doubt the advantage of optical over mechanical mice. The wireless feature, however, is one of those "once you've had cordless, you won't go back" things. The recharging station is a nice feature, because without it, you're guaranteed to get annoyed for a couple of minutes at least once ever month or so when your mouse batteries run down. It also opens the possibility that Logitech has fixed a problem with their earlier versions of this mouse.

This article touches briefly on the sampling rate of this mouse, which was nice. When you go down and compare these optical, cordless mice at the store, you find that none of them have any hard specs about their sampling rates. I have one of the earlier Logitech cordless optical mice, and really liked it. However, it couldn't come close to the accuracy of a corded optical mouse. The optical sampling rate was low enough that the difference in accuracy was very noticable. This reduced sampling is done to improve the battery life. A low sampling rate is an issue that can make you hate your mouse.

With the inclusion of a recharging station, it is possible that Logitech modified the mouse to sample at a higher rate and use more energy, because battery life isn't as much of an issue any longer. The batteries are capable of driving the mouse over several days, even at high consumption rates, so as long as the user puts the mouse in the cradle overnight occasionally, the mouse can be less efficient and perform better. It is one of those myriad little user-friendliness things that can make or break a product's popularity.

Personally, I'm happy to see this mouse. Microsoft makes good ergonomic keyboards and crappy operating systems, but Logitech, IMHO, makes the best mice.