What are some good wireless keyboards? (on both the cheap and pricy side)
Also, I own both the MX1000 and the latest wireless MS Explorer. Like every Logitech product I've owned (a wirless ball mouse, three sets of speakers), this one is defective. No matter what surface I use it on, the mouse jumps around randomly when moved, only by pixels, but enough to for example end up at the wrong shortcut, toolbar icon, or paragraph line when trying to click something. I have yet to call and ask for a replacement, but Logitech has been good about those in the past. Still, I'm really disappointed by this.
Both the MS and Logitech mice side scrolling stinks. It's not integrated with the scrolling up down well at all - on the MS the vertical scrolling of the wheel is totally smooth, which means you can't tell when you've scrolled one tic with the mouse, but you get random jerks on your screen. Logitech has the usual really senstive vertical scroll which makes it real easy to scroll without intent. Again the side scrolling is as a result painful, since you always do something else accidentally. Neither side scrolling feature works without the native mouse software.
Logitech, as always, has the mose godawful software. I don't even use their software and just forgo the extra task switching button on the mouse. Another complaint is actually the physical design. The indent for your thumb button is far too deep. If you hold the mouse with it, your thumb ends up paracticly under your forefinger, and the whole thing is just a little too round, so you end up feeling like you're holding half a baseball with a dent in its side. I find myself keeping my thumb on the small edge that outlines the base's left side just to keep the mouse moving precisely how I want it. It's just more intuitive than the grib they had in mind.
The greatest thing about Logitech's MX1000 is that it's rechargable and wireless with seemingly decent range. While the MS Explorer's battery life is pretty long, it occassionally (once or twice a week) gives me trouble finding the base station (starts being randomly unresposnive, so I click the reset button and move the base station an inch, then 5 seconds later it's ok again). Then again, I don't follow the 12 inch or however long radius rule of keeping no electronics next to the base station for either mouse - pretty stupid rule to have for a desktop computer. My base station sits on a printer, on top of a dvd player, on top of a sub, next to a tv, about a foot away from a surge protector.
My ideal mouse would be an MS Explorer physical design, software, and buttons, with a tougher mousewheel not present on either mouse, and with Logitech's wireless range and rechargability. I have noticed no difference in precision between the optical and laser mechanisms, other than MX1000's seems defective on my particular model.
For #4 Corral, can the border corners touch each other? (i.e. in their example, look at the 7, then extend the border just for this example, adding only the block below 7, making its corner touch the corner of 2...) If you can have them touch like that, then I don't really even know how to approch this:(
Got 1 - 3 though
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What are some good wireless keyboards? (on both the cheap and pricy side)
Also, I own both the MX1000 and the latest wireless MS Explorer. Like every Logitech product I've owned (a wirless ball mouse, three sets of speakers), this one is defective. No matter what surface I use it on, the mouse jumps around randomly when moved, only by pixels, but enough to for example end up at the wrong shortcut, toolbar icon, or paragraph line when trying to click something. I have yet to call and ask for a replacement, but Logitech has been good about those in the past. Still, I'm really disappointed by this.
Both the MS and Logitech mice side scrolling stinks. It's not integrated with the scrolling up down well at all - on the MS the vertical scrolling of the wheel is totally smooth, which means you can't tell when you've scrolled one tic with the mouse, but you get random jerks on your screen. Logitech has the usual really senstive vertical scroll which makes it real easy to scroll without intent. Again the side scrolling is as a result painful, since you always do something else accidentally. Neither side scrolling feature works without the native mouse software.
Logitech, as always, has the mose godawful software. I don't even use their software and just forgo the extra task switching button on the mouse. Another complaint is actually the physical design. The indent for your thumb button is far too deep. If you hold the mouse with it, your thumb ends up paracticly under your forefinger, and the whole thing is just a little too round, so you end up feeling like you're holding half a baseball with a dent in its side. I find myself keeping my thumb on the small edge that outlines the base's left side just to keep the mouse moving precisely how I want it. It's just more intuitive than the grib they had in mind.
The greatest thing about Logitech's MX1000 is that it's rechargable and wireless with seemingly decent range. While the MS Explorer's battery life is pretty long, it occassionally (once or twice a week) gives me trouble finding the base station (starts being randomly unresposnive, so I click the reset button and move the base station an inch, then 5 seconds later it's ok again). Then again, I don't follow the 12 inch or however long radius rule of keeping no electronics next to the base station for either mouse - pretty stupid rule to have for a desktop computer. My base station sits on a printer, on top of a dvd player, on top of a sub, next to a tv, about a foot away from a surge protector.
My ideal mouse would be an MS Explorer physical design, software, and buttons, with a tougher mousewheel not present on either mouse, and with Logitech's wireless range and rechargability. I have noticed no difference in precision between the optical and laser mechanisms, other than MX1000's seems defective on my particular model.
Or just ignore the original, then focus on individual details of the answers, checking them against each other, and look for differences.
For #4 Corral, can the border corners touch each other? (i.e. in their example, look at the 7, then extend the border just for this example, adding only the block below 7, making its corner touch the corner of 2...) If you can have them touch like that, then I don't really even know how to approch this :(
Got 1 - 3 though