Well, I just got the mouse, and all I can say is that it's whogging awesome. The first piece of advice I can offer is NOT to use the supplied driver-use USB overdrive instead. Razer's drivers are very limiting, and don't even allow you to (no, I'm not making this up) assign the right button to right click. It does have a nifty glass breaking animation thingy for showing how fast you've selected the double-licking prefs, and it has acceleration control globally as well as across two axes, but the lack of control over what the actual buttons do made me turn to USB overdrive. Once I did, however, I got the level of customizability I wanted.
This mouse is hyperhyperHYPERsensitive; they weren't lying about the 1600 DPI thing. By default, moving it about an inch and a half throws it all the way across the screen. This is perfect for me, as I have a very light touch and manipulate the mouse with my fingertips. The top is smooth, so after a while your hand might start to get sweaty, and the side buttons have bumps on them to help you locate them. This is great for the left side ones, but I find that the frontmost right side bump chafes my pinky. I'll probably file it down tonight.
The USB Overdrive is a device driver for Mac OS X that handles any USB mouse / trackball / joystick / gamepad / media keyboard and any Bluetooth mouse from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on a per-application, per-device basis. I cannot find my Razer mouse or keyboard in Windows Device Manager under “Mice and other pointing Devices” Razer mice and keyboards are not typically listed under the “Mice and other pointing Devices” section of the Windows Device Manager.
That said, while many have complained about the positions of the side buttons, I find them just fine. They click easily and aren't too close together at all, though this might be because I have small hands.
The size is perfect, the buttons provide just the right level of force and tactile feedback, and the plethora of buttons is convenient. The mouse glides smoothly across the usually slightly sticky surface of the computer table I also use for cutting apples, impressively enough-more than I can say for my wrist. The feet don't skid, get caught, or anything. It's a marvelous mouse. Originally posted by sladuuch: Razer's drivers are very limiting, and don't even allow you to (no, I'm not making this up) assign the right button to right click.
By 'right button' you mean one of the side-mounted buttons, right? Right-click works like right-click is supposed to, I assume.
(Correct?) I just don't want to pay 20 dollars for a tricked-up mouse driver, as my needs are VERY simple. I just want the precision without the goofy (to me) ergonomic feel of the Logitech. Thanks for the 'mini-review.' I do believe I'll be picking one up. Welcome to Ars, too. Originally posted by VirtualWolf: I picked up a Logitech MX-518 today. It's very nice, but the buttons on the top of the mouse don't seem to be recognised by either USB Overdrive or Mac OS X.
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The one with the little windows on it shows up in USBO as Button 6, but the + and - buttons don't register at all. They've done something non-standard with those two buttons, maybe? Those are the resolution switch buttons that can't be remapped without Logitech's Windows driver (they don't have a Mac driver for that mouse - and trust me, don't try the Logitech control centre). I mentioned this in my Logi G5 review. Originally posted by Tutor: Get version 1.62 from their web site, it supports that feature. Version 1.61 beta lacked that for my Diamondback, too.
The Diamondback is fully supported by the Razer Pro Mac drivers too, I assume? (The 'Pro' appears to simply be a Diamondback with white plastics, from what I can tell.) Just wanted to make sure. I like the black better. Don't know if it is fully supported, but I tried version 1.6 and 1.61 beta, which both didn't work correctly.
Then I tried 1.62 with my Diamondback and it works as it should. The Pro shall have 2000dpi, the older models like mine do 1600 which is not too shabby either. New models also shall works with laser optics instead of leds. I am fine with those. I tried a Logitech laser once and was irritated, cause it reacted to my moving the mouse back, too. I do that slightly lifted, but the laser mouse got that and moved the cursor, too!
Couldn't stand that. Originally posted by VirtualWolf: I picked up a Logitech MX-518 today. It's very nice, but the buttons on the top of the mouse don't seem to be recognised by either USB Overdrive or Mac OS X. The one with the little windows on it shows up in USBO as Button 6, but the + and - buttons don't register at all. They've done something non-standard with those two buttons, maybe? Those are the resolution switch buttons that can't be remapped without Logitech's Windows driver (they don't have a Mac driver for that mouse - and trust me, don't try the Logitech control centre).
I mentioned this in my Logi G5 review. Doesn't really matter, they're rather awkward to press anyway.