Price: $US40
Tracking system: Optical
DPI: 400-3600dpi
Polling rate: 1000Hz
Weight: 133 grams
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I’ve slaughtered nations of prancing polygon people with the original MX518. Using the G400 is like picking up my favourite gun again after being separated it from it a very long time — think Nicholas Cage and his twin gold pistols in Face/Off. The G400 is a few frills affair, a tool. There are not 6000 buttons. There are no glowing lights. Just a pair of optimally placed thumb buttons, a solid scroll wheel, and quick-access dots to quickly jump from less sensitive DPI settings to more sensitive. The ergonomics are perfectly balanced — the bean shape is ultra-comfortable, but not forceful in positioning your hand in a particular way. Logitech’s macro software is quite swizzy. Cheap for a gaming mouse.
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This is perhaps blasphemy, but the truth is, I don’t think anybody can credibly claim anymore to perceive any kind of lag differential between modern wired and wireless gaming mice. Wireless is good now, with polling frequencies that match wired mice. So I wish the 2011 update was a wireless model. I’d prefer a braided cable, ’cause they feel sturdier. No official Mac software support is a mild but not unexpected bummer.
Last Word
Relatively simple calculus is involved here: Do you want a gaming mouse? Do you want it to be (relatively) cheap? Do you want it to be excellent? Done. Buy this. [Logitech]
Michael
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:45 AMYay no support for Mac, this mouse is a must buy for me now
JD
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 8:31 AMIt’s a gaming mouse, so of course there’s no Mac support. The Mac doesn’t have any games silly!
poltak
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 9:21 AMI’m not a gamer, but I bought the MX518 (the previous model) when I was younger with the assumption that it would make me better at CS… alas, I still only got a kill every 5 or so games… After I while, I realised I suck at games :P
Anyway, the point of the story is that even as a non-gamer, the lovely feel, sensitivity and ease of use makes me still use this mouse today.
Also, all the buttons on this mouse work fine on Linux and Mac after plugging it in. I would’ve thought the newer version worked the same.
Btw, excuse my ignorance, but what does this new model offer over my old MX518?
realstevejobs
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 10:08 AMIMHLHO any review of an asymmetric UX experience should at least give lip service to the question of suitability to the left handed.
ozoneocean
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 1:43 PMThat’s a good point. I’m a right hander but only use mice left handed (due to nerve injury in the past). Asymetric mice are tricky to adapt to, not impossible in any way, but you have to get used to operating thumb controls with other fingers ect.
villainsoft
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 10:58 AMNo Mac support? yeah right. works fine on my hackintosh.
Awnshegh
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 11:16 AMMy MX518 at home is still my go to mouse. While my friends and family are upgrading to thse button riddled menaces each year my old faithful MX518 is still kicking.
Ollie
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 11:49 AMIf you’re cack-handed you’re not a gamer =P trololol.
Seriously… MX1000 > anything. End of. THREE useful thumb buttons, not two. Crouch, Prone, and Teamspeak. I’ve had it since release and it’s still going hard as the day I bought it. No problems with the batteries at all, they still go for a fortnight without a charge easy. Just a pity they tried to make “better” mice and went backwards. If they re-released it I’d buy 10 of them so they’d last me another 100 years.
Chris
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 3:01 PM+1 to this.
Have had an MX1000 and MX5000 keyboard for a few years, and it’s amazingly comfortable, still works brilliantly, and my battery gives me a couple of weeks between recharges as well. My only gripe with it is that being bluetooth, it probably doesn’t poll as well as a wired mouse (but I can’t tell the difference), and Logitech setpoint and Win7 don’t always work perfectly together.
BTW, the side scroll click is brilliant – especially for weapon changes :)
Sam
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 11:54 AMPeople, please read how it says “no OFFICIAL Mac software yet” and these mice are just like the G5 I have at home, just without the cool grip/pattern thing
Sam
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 11:55 AMBrilliant ones though still
D.P
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 1:30 PMLogitech G500 for the win baby. LogitechShop sells this for AUD $50.
MotorMouth
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 3:34 PMI will never trust Logitech again. They run so hot and cold. The first of their mouses I had was absolutely awful, the worst mouse I have ever owned. But when I started a new job it came with a portable Logitech mouse that was amazing. So good, in fact, that when they bought out a new model above it with better tracking, etc., I bought it without question. It replaced the first Logitech mouse as the worst mouse I have ever owned. Since then, I have stopped looking at Logitech mouses and gone back to Microsoft, whose hardware products are consistently good.
wait
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 6:48 PMwait, wait, wait, wait, wait….. did you just say that MICROSOFT, as in the company that makes windows Microsoft, make GOOD hardware products? are you sure you live in the same century as me? MICROSOFT!!!?!??!?!? HARDWARE!?!?!?!? NEVER EVER COMBINE THOSE TWO THINGS IN THE SAME SENTANCE EVER AGAIN!!!!