Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
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Customer Review: Best mouse I have ever used!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Logitech G9 mouse is without a doubt the best mouse I have ever used. I have used plenty of different gaming mice over the years. Most recently I was using the Logitech G5, which is also a good mouse but it can't hold a candle to the G9.
For those who have used the old G5 all of the best features of that mouse remain intact. Logitech managed to iron out all of the problems I had with the G5 with this mouse as well. First, I never understood why the G5 lacked the fifth mouse button, which is most commonly the "forward" button for web browsers. Logitech apparently updated the G5 later on to include that button but my version was lacking it.
The dial a DPI feature remains about the same but it's position has been moved to a more convenient location just below the left mouse button. For those who aren't familiar with the feature, it lets you adjust the sensitivity of the mouse on the fly without software. An LED indicator shows you which DPI slot is currently selected, you can change the DPI setting for each slot with the included software.
This mouse features a removable shell that allows you to swap between two different styles of grip. One shell is smooth and has a large area to rest your thumb, while the other is textured and has a slimmer profile. Switching between the two shells is a very simple process and takes all of 5 seconds to do. The removable weight cartridge is located under the removable shell. It is where your palm normally rests and is removed by giving it a light push. The cartridge will automatically pop out when you push it. The cartridge can hold up to four different weights.
On the underside of the mouse there are two special buttons. One allows you to switch between custom profiles you make with the included software. The other allows you to customize the mouse wheel. Some mice have what I call a "clicky wheel" that clicks into place as you turn it. Others have a smooth wheel that provides little resistance to your finger. The button on the underside of the G9 allows you to switch between these two wheel styles. The "smooth" style features and ultra fast mechanism that allows you to scroll at superhuman speeds. In smooth mode, a slight push of the wheel will send it spinning almost indefinitely. This is very useful in different types of games, and even for scrolling through long documents.
All in all, I have only one complaint with this mouse. When using the textured grip if you apply pressure on the shell with your thumb it will sometimes register it as a press of the fifth button. This can be very problematic in games but it could be an issue with my specific mouse and not all G9s. If you take the shell off and put it back on it sometimes fixes the problem.
Customer Review: Better Than Your Old Mouse...WAIT...IT BROKE!
Summary: 5 Stars
ORIGINAL REVIEW AUGUST 28TH, 2008
Never in my life have I found such a fast accurate mouse, where so much thought went into the design process. In fact, this is not for all practical purposes a single mouse, but you could at least consider it two different mice. Why? Well, it has two grips, which have two totaly different feels. Combine that with a totally customizable unique weight balance system, and you have quite a few combinations of custom mice right out of the box. You will probably settle on just one or two, but never have the choices been so plentiful.
Everything you get with this mouse is top notch, but you might expect that if you are willing to shell out this much for just a mouse. Sure, it might be the best mouse you've ever used. Sure, the feet glide, and the weight and grip combos are fancy, and the wheel can spin freely or spin in clicked steps, and macros and lights are customizable, but the real question is: is it worth the price?
Well, that is something you have to decide on your own.
Even if you are overpaying a bit, in my opinion, they have packaged it so well, and the performace is so great that it all seems like a good deal when all is said and done.
It's better than your old mouse. Probably better than your friend's mouse. You ought to give it a try.
NEW ADDITION 11/17/2008
This stupid mouse broke! At first, while playing Fallout 3 I thought, perhaps my character's agility is affecting how fast I can pull the trigger, and then suddenly, I realized, the left click button isn't working. Sometimes it would work, and sometimes not, and sometimes only when you pushed really hard at the very end of the button, and not where I normally pressed it at the end near the top of the mouse. This is SOOOOO frustrating paying such a whopping price for a really cool mouse which wore out after a few months with some fairly light gameplay.
You might think, this guy broke it by pressing too hard. Pretty unlikely since I am NOT a hardcore gamer, and really have used it mainly for video editing. And, even if I did break it, imagine someone who plays FPS's every night and I would have a hard time imagining how anyone could AVOID breaking it.
This may look nice, and it has great packaging and consumer appeal, but in the end, it is a cheap piece of crap.
01/08/09
In fairness to Logitech, they have a great return department. The warranty on my mouse covered a replacement, and I didn't even have to return the original. It makes you feel a little better to know that there is a reason you pay so much money for a mouse. It has a good warranty, and even if you might need to use it, you are at least getting your moneys worth.
Customer Review: good performance, respectable ergonomics
Summary: 4 Stars
I noticed that this mouse dropped to around $50 dollars at Best Buy and I had to take it home to try it.
I've been using Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 Mac/Windows for several months whilst playing World Of Warcraft. Needless to say, my hand eventually started to fatigue and so I was on the market for an ergonomic mouse.
I initially purchased an MX Revolution and shortly purchased this. I decided that I would return the one that did not meet my expectations and eventually returned the MX Revolution because of the battery issue and it was a little cumbersome while playing FPS games.
This mouse isn't perfect. The DPI, weight customization, macro assignments, and LED color changes are nice. Two shells are packaged with the mouse, but neither are as comfortable as the MX Revolution. Nevertheless, both are still more comfortable than what I was used to. It would be nice if they created a shell which was slightly longer and taller to fit my style, but they're both still usable.
While I do play FPS games such as TF2 and L4D, I'm in no clan and I rarely score within the top 3 in every game. However, upon trying this mouse, I noticed my KDR in TF2 did increase. The on-the-fly DPI switch enables me to switch to a more accurate setting for snipping and switch back when I'm out of sniping mode.
The mouse glides like it's on air on my desk (no mouse pad, though I'm tempted to buy one if it's smoother). It's a dramatic change from the Microsoft notebook mouse 5000, which felt really rough to use after using this (and I never noticed prior to using this).
Is it as comfortable as the MX Revolution? No, but it's comfortable enough to play games, which is what I wanted. Is it ideal for MMORPG games such as WoW? No, the MX Revolution worked fine for me, but the internal battery bothered me and the batteries in my notebook mouse 5000 died several times while gaming (which is something I'd prefer not have to deal with again). Is it useful in FPS games? Yes, the DPI and polling (I think that's what it's called) makes this mouse very reactive to the slightest hand twitch which is good for FPS games.
In summary, this will increase your FPS game if you've never used a gaming mouse before. It's not the mouse that I would use in the work environment (MX Revolution wins that), but I'd prefer nothing else when I'm gaming. The mouse is very versatile and the only thing that keeps it from a perfect score is additional shells that would match my preference.
Customer Review: Painful for small hands, overall a disappointment
Summary: 3 Stars
Overall, this mouse is a big disappointment to me. Other people will talk about what's right with the G9, I'm just going to talk about what I don't like about this mouse. I play World of Warcraft as a resto druid, and need a mouse with a lot of buttons for mapping my various healing spells for use with Grid and Clique. I own the Logitech MX Revolution and am mostly happy with it - it is a great mouse with a lot of buttons that are easy to configure (I use it with uberOptions), it has a comfortable shape, but it is a little long in length for my small hands so I can't reach the thumb buttons without repositioning my hand. I was also concerned there may be some lag given the fact that it is wireless. I checked out various wired gaming mice and was disappointed to see that so many offer limited buttons and no left-right scrolling functionality - which provides me with two extra, easily accessible mapping options. The World of Warcraft mouse looked intriguing (and I'm a sucker for lights!), but reading reviews made me steer away from it. Sounds like great concept with very poor execution, plus it was noted that it was lousy for small hands.
The G9 seemed closest to what I was looking for feature-wise, so I decided to give it a try. First off, the mouse feels and looks extremely cheap, especially after using the MX Revolution. I like the shorter length, but the width and shape are miserably uncomfortable for my small hands with either grip installed (I also tried using it without a grip found it unusable that way), and it doesn't matter whether I try a palm or claw-style grip. Middle-clicking is much too difficult and is the worst I have ever experienced. I also find the cord too stiff, and due to the way it was packaged, it is stuck with a weird kink in the cord near the mouse that drags the mousing surface, which is extremely annoying.
I am no stranger to setting up mouse mapping via SetPoint (this mouse uses its own version, btw), but I could not get this work work for the life of me with the G9. It stayed in the same profile no matter what I tried. Turns out it needed to be run as administrator (maybe because I use Vista 64-bit?), which required a call to Logitech to find out as trying that was nowhere in the instructions and it simply didn't occur to me - it was never required with other versions of SetPoint, after all.
In a nutshell, if you have small hands or need to use the middle button a lot, I'd stay away from this mouse. The bells and whistles it has to offer mean nothing if it's painful and difficult to use. I am back to using my MX Revolution.
Customer Review: Good mouse, has 1 problem
Summary: 4 Stars
The only problem I have with this mouse is the size and the hard textured cover for this mouse is also textured on the bottom section of the mouse. Since there is texture on the bottom of the cover, it slows the mouse movement down. A bit of sandpaper does take care of the problem though.
(UPDATED on 05-07-2010)
Okay, having owned this mouse for over a year, here are the good things. Tracking is great (does not seem to catch hairs as often in the optical sensor as often as other optical mice). The internal weights are a bonus and do help if you use them. The exchangeable cover is easy to pop off and clean (had a fine hair catch behind one of the side buttons making clicking noisy, but it was quick to fix after unscrewing the inside button arm, cleaning it, and screwing it back in place). I like the color changeable LEDs on the top of the mouse. I will honestly say this is one of the best optical mice I've owned aside from Belkin's 5-button mini mouse (which they no longer make).
Downsides. The scroll wheel. It is a great design among scroll wheels with excellent tracking too, but it clogs with hair.
I am a hairy fellow and after about 6 months the scroll wheel stopped working. I removed the plastic snap-on cover, then peeled off the glide pads (which I cut to leave the screw locations exposed because I had to repeat cleaning out the wheel another 3 months later) which cover the 4 screw locations. Lifted up the top of the mouse and the scroll wheel was chock full of lint and a bit of hair. The C-shape of the wheel and the wheel well lends itself to hair and lint gathering too well. To clean you need a long pointy tweezer and then you pick out the fluff debris with the tweezers. The lint and hair likes to stick onto the tiny metal arm which acts as a microgear when scrolling and then just keeps gathering the fibers fed into it until it turns into a fluff-clog. This does not break the wheel or prevent it from turning, it just ends up blocking the optical emitters and sensors on the wheel so the mouse can no longer recognize the wheel is turning. Removing the fluff usually fixes this unless the fluff has clogged up the little spokes in the wheel. If you're really careful you can use the tweezers to spread apart the wheel pivots and lift out the wheel at an angle so as not to break the microgear arm. A bit of a compressed air or a clean toothbrush can quickly clean out any of the rest left on the wheel.