Frigging mice...

honey the codewitch

Refresh. I edited my previous reply a couple of times. Maybe what I added will help. :)

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Lost User

Never met an "accurate" wireless mouse. Maybe if it was the only wireless thing around.

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Mircea Neacsu

Me too :) Thanks for suggestions!

Mircea

Mircea Neacsu

Well, this one, I have to give it to it, is very accurate. No sudden jumps or lack of responsiveness even in Bluetooth mode.

Mircea

Jon McKee

Whatever you get, I recommend a laser sensor for precision movement. Optic sensors are ok but in my experience they have a very noticeable "dead zone" if you use very sensitive settings. I had a Corsair M60 Pro that was great for probably 5-6 years but then the right-click died a couple months back. I'm using a Logitech M500s now (had to find something local) which has been ok. The construction feels good (a nice stiffness to the clicks) but the sensor is dog-water at ~3000 dpi or higher. If you move the mouse a millimeter at a time from a dead stop as if you were carefully adjusting the cursor position, the cursor sometimes won't even move. You have to "snap" the mouse to kind of "wake up" the sensor before any fine movement.

Mircea Neacsu

Jon McKee wrote:

Whatever you get, I recommend a laser sensor for precision movement. Optic sensors are ok but in my experience they have a very noticeable "dead zone" if you use very sensitive settings.

That's what I used to know too. Seems however that these days special optical sensors are back in the game. Logitech calls them HERO or something. AFAIK Corsair has also an optical sensor and cannot complain about any lack of sensitivity. Maybe that's why it drains so much battery.

Mircea

Jon McKee

Interesting. I just looked it up and wow that HERO sensor is a leap. 25,600 max DPI? Who on Earth needs that? Pretty neat though, I wonder how they pulled that off and if it requires some special mouse-pad to reliably achieve that. 1ms polling rate too which surprises me. A lot of the optical mice (including my M500s) use the default 8ms which is... not as awful as people say but certainly noticeable.

englebart

I second the idea of two mice. Keep the accurate mouse in reserve and it will outlive its drivers. If you are using optical and need that level of resolution, then the surface/mousepad texture must make a huge difference.

Gary R Wheeler

RedDk wrote:

I can sympathize with the Corsair iCUE interface myself

Agreed. I bought a Corsair keyboard about a month ago. I actually use the backlighting, but its set to a constant medium blue color that makes it easier for me to see. I wanted to program one key on the keyboard to enter a rather long password I use. Their software has no documentation, no list of which keys may be defined, and why you can't use modifier keys (shift/ctrl/alt/win) when defining keypresses. There's also no definition of the difference between "Key assignments" and "Hardware key assignments". The 'profiles' feature seems overkill, and the stupid thing switches from one to another uncontrollably. I deleted all the profiles excepts a single one in the keyboard itself. I then convinced it to program the Scroll Lock to type the password... into Notepad. It wouldn't work in the app I needed it for. It wouldn't work in a command prompt window. It stopped working when I exited the iCue application. When I started the app up, it knew nothing about the definition I'd created. When I submitted a problem report to Corsair, they referred me to a YouTube video by some gamer twit reviewing the keyboard. That was the extent of their customer support. Don't get me wrong - it's a great piece of hardware. Good quality Cherry keyswitches, nice feel. One oddity is that the shift symbols are below the unshifted symbols on the keytops, instead of the reverse.

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Mircea Neacsu

It is a possibility but changing mouse resolutions is unpleasant. I find it changes my eye to hand coordination. For the moment I’m debating between using the Corsair as a corded mouse or throwing another 60$ or so on a Logitech G305.

Mircea

Brisingr Aerowing

I have a Logitech MK710 Keyboard / Mouse combo, and it works very well. My old MK700 / 710 combo had the keyboard last a couple years on a single set of batteries, and the mouse roughly the same (I did turn it off when I wasn't using it). I can't use it currently, as I use my computer while on a sofa in my Living Room, and the signal can't go through my legs (the mouse is on my right side next to the back of the sofa, and the computer is to my left).

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Memtha

Corsair macro software is the best I've ever used. Out of the two. Because the other one BSoDs when any keystroke is used (saitek). Seriously though, I am annoyed that I paid for the corsair keyboard with 18 extra programmable keys, and they only seem to work in notepad. And of course, there's no linux version.

Rage

I would recommend an Evoluent mouse, even if it breaks all of your requirements :-D Evoluent VerticalMouse Vertical Mouse ergonomic mouse ergonomic computer mouse carpal tunnel syndrome repetitive stress disorder RSI[^] - Alternating is not necessary anymore, because the vertical position is not causing RSI - This mouse literally got me rid of the carpal tunnel syndrome I suffered from before using it. - Resolution is higher than you will ever need, and I am the kind of guy doing pixel-precise screenshots. - You can choose wireless, but I prefer hard wired for everything - a cable is reliable, and I have not had any problem with cables lying around on my desk. - Cheap is expensive -> I bought my Evoluent mouse in ... 2005, it still works like a charm. /edit: I must add that they had a wonderful customer support back then -> the hardware chip interpreting the scroll wheel signal bugged after about three years usage, and after I notified them about it, they ... sent me a brand new mouse from the US as a replacement with an apology for the problem ! Cannot judge whether this is still valid nowadays, since I experienced no problem with the mouse since then, but this was truly unexpected for an item out of warranty time :thumbsup:

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ElectronProgrammer

You have my sympathy. I too have lost a lot of time/patience/hair to mice. I have RSI and, from my experience, a good ambidextrous wireless mouse that is also not too expensive and durable is hard to find. I did not had any luck with that yet. My previous one did not last to the end of the warranty. My solution, that I currently employ, is to have a mouse for all the fast work and a pen tablet for the precision work. And keep alternating between the two. The mouse I use is a logitech mx master 3 (right hand only). I have it for a few months and haven't charged it since I bought it (November, I think). There is software to configure it in Linux if you need. The pen tablet is a wired Wacom Bamboo Fun (CTE-650) but I think there were wireless versions back when I bought it (2007 maybe?!). Like the mouse, it has software to configure in Linux. Configuring the buttons on the tablet to zoom in/out makes life easier. I can not say anything about the software for windows because I work only in Linux but it used to be good on windows 7 (for the pen tablet) and did not get on the way of work. Regarding battery life, depending on what amount you refer to with "breaking the bank", there are wireless mice that have the charger in the mouse pad so, as long as the mouse is on top and almost centered on the mouse pad, it will charge even when you are using it. Probably you will not find one that is ambidextrous. Good luck.

Maximilien

Fun thing happened today. My mouse batteries just died!! :rolleyes:

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Mircea Neacsu

Yeah, that must be fun! Doubly so when you have a deadline coming up :rolleyes:

Mircea

jmaida

Have Logitech M215 mouse and K360 keyboard. amazing battery life and uses standard AA batteries Standard batteries are the way to go. Mouse accuracy is very good. Uses Logitech wireless USB receiver for both mouse and keyboard

Joan M

I would say this one: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-anywhere-3-for-business.910-006215.html[^] Hope this helps. :)

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Mircea Neacsu

I might try it. Thanks for the tip.

Mircea

jschell

Mircea Neacsu wrote:

his is nothing like what I've expected. Biggest problem is the ridiculously short battery life: about a week on average and that's without the fancy RGB lightning.

Appears to be up to spec since this is exactly what the following says. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/08/19/corsair-harpoon-rgb-wireless-gaming-mouse[^] I presume you stop using the mouse and computer at some point in the day. Why not just plug it in? I use a wireless mouse that takes actual batteries. I change them once a year because I change the batteries in everything that often. Never had a problem. It is a M510 mouse from Logitech. I switch hands back and forth for the same reason you mentioned.