New Unannounced Logitech Mouse


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This might be of interest to any of you who are hardware junkie's like me! :p

I was looking over an online store a few minutes ago and saw a reference to Logitech's MX1000 mouse. Altough it hasn't been announced on Logitech's website yet, it seems that it's their next-gen mouse and is pretty jaw dropping spec wise.

Definately the best mouse you can get at the moment, if you like cordless mice that is.

Brief specs:
  • World's first laser cordless mouse
  • 20x tracking power of optical mouse
  • Rapid charging base station
  • Illuminated 4 level battery indicator
  • Deep sculpted thumb support
  • Cruise control and tilt scroll
There's a review and lots of nice pics at http://3dgpu.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=310

Looks really nice too imho.
 
Exactly, laser mice are very new on the market. You're unlikely to own one in the UK at the moment, I think you mean optical. The red 'laser' isn't as much of a laser as what the new mice have ;)
 
Sorry for sounding ignorent, but I don't get all this about super high tracking power mice. I mean I thought the optical mice were 10 times more accurate than ball mice and now these laser mice are 20 times higher again???

I'm still using a 10 year old (literally) ball mouse and I always run my monitor at 1600x1200. If I want to move the cursor by just 1 pixel I can, easily. So what does it matter if the mouse can track every 1/200th pixels I move???

I just don't get it.

They look cool, so I might get an optical or whatever one day, but I don't expect them to work any better, in fact whenever I've used one, they've pissed me right off.
 
Well most people who dislike optical mice do so because they don't use it with a mouse mat, believing for some reason that you don't need one. Although I use the mouse on a table and it works fine, some surfaces are less kind. Then you'll get jerkiness like any normal mouse.

The 1/200th stuff just makes it more responsive, and the co-ords are more accurate for some stuff like FPS games - you may notice the difference. It's like the reverse of enabling mouse-smoothing - the game makes no rounding of your mouse co-ords so you have more accuracy.

Besides it's much easier to use a newer mouse than the old ball-based ones that require changing every so often and occasionally mess up.
 
Rico posted on Aug 30 2004 at 08:17 PM said:
Exactly, laser mice are very new on the market. You're unlikely to own one in the UK at the moment, I think you mean optical. The red 'laser' isn't as much of a laser as what the new mice have ;)
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Woops :ph34r: , excuse me for my ignorance i just presumed optical mice were laser mice, oh well you learn something new everyday. :p
 
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sam fisher posted on Aug 30 2004 at 10:55 PM said:
So my optical mouse has a camera in it?
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In a way, yes. Similar technology.

EDIT: I shall input my opinion as well. First generation mice that are based on new tech are always rough, V1 microsoft optical mice for example. I'll probably wait for the technology to mature.
 
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Well, I payed £60 for my Logitech mouse, and if this one is a similar price, I'll probably buy it just to see what the fuss is about :)
 
I'm very tempted myself to get rid of my MX500 and buy one. Would be my first cordless mouse too B)

Theres a picture in the article I linked to that gives a good idea of laser over optical. Shows the optical camera viewing the surface that the mouse travels over, lit by the LED underneath the mouse. With the laser mouse however, it looks like the laser is bounced off the surface into the camera, which will give a much more accurate reading as the laser is a much more precise point of light for the camera to track/focus on.
 
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