Logitech MX 400 Performance Laser Mouse
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Customer Review: Ideal if you're right handed
Summary: 5 Stars
Assuming you're right-handed, MX400 is a very comfortable mouse - but you have to give it one to two days to really fit in with your hand and to find your optimum holding pattern. The overall build quality, scrolling, glide, placement of back/forward buttons, cable, clicking, amazing tracking...everything's absolutely great about this mouse, including the 5-year warranty. Over several months of constant use, the scroll wheel misbehaved only once, and just a puff of compressed air corrected the problem.
As the laser optics used in this mouse is invisible to human eye, it makes a nice touch to your desktop or laptop setup,like a natural extension of the setup.
The optical engine is 1100 dpi, it is laser (a lot less picky about the tracking surface), has tilt wheel, and the buttons require just the right amount of clicking to activate and they have nice tactile feedback. Like all Logitech mice, it suffers from the SetPoint drivers' bloat, but if you're willing to let go of the tilt wheel, you don't need to install anything at all, just plug in the mouse and in Windows XP, all those back/forward buttons are automatically recognized. If you're short on USB ports, there's a PS/2 adapter so you can use your computer's mouse port (that green port that has been sitting empty until now).
One interesting information about this mouse: its wireless big brother, MX610, has a symmetrical version for southpaws. Beware though, MX610 series suffers from hit-or-miss tracking problems. For that reason, you might be able to find ridiculous deals at your local Staples/BestBuy/Fry's for a MX610, but the southpaw version is very hard to find in a brick&mortar store.
My friends call me a mouse freak...and I've tried nearly 75% of the MS and Logitech offerings. I can tell you that this MX400 is my day-to-day mouse, and it seems it will stay that way for a long time. Hope you'll like it as much as I do.
Customer Review: Almost perfect
Summary: 5 Stars
I just switched from PC to iMac. Wanted a mouse that I could configure and felt better than the supplied Mighty Mouse. Also wanted a corded mouse that I could use in working with images in Photoshop.
The MX 400 has more than satisfied me in the week I have been using it. I was able to configure the buttons to do what I wanted and had no trouble at all with the downloaded Logitech software for Mac.
As others have noted the wheel click is much stiffer than any other mouse I have used. I intentionally set out to train myself to use it and am getting pretty good.
In all other respects the mouse performs flawlessly. It is comfortable, responsive and precise. I love the amount of control I have over programming the buttons.
The last thing I figured out--maybe everybody else got this but me--was the side scrolling function of the wheel. I thought this was for moving the cursor or highlighting inside a word processor document or spreadsheet. (Maybe it does, but I have not figured out how.) So far the only way I found the tilt wheel function works is to scroll horizontally within a window that is open narrower than the full width of its contents. Just as the scroll wheel when rotated moves the window contents up or down, tilting the scroll wheel left or right scrolls the window contents left or right. That's helpful sometimes but with a wide aspect monitor that displays windows at full width, I don't see scroll bars at the bottom of windows that often.
All in all, the MX 400 exceeds my expectation and is well worth the price.
Update 1/11/09
As I hoped, I am getting better functionality even with the stiffness of
the scroll wheel click. I expect in another couple of weeks, it will be second nature.
Customer Review: Not bad, but could be better
Summary: 4 Stars
I just wanted a plain wired mouse with two thumb buttons and this mouse was what I was looking for.
Pros:
1. Like all other mice from logitech with two thumb buttons, when you hold it, your thumb rests right under the thumb buttons and all you have to do is roll your thumb ever so slightly to click the thumb buttons.
2. The price. I don't want to blow $50+ on a mouse.
Cons:
1. The mouse wheel button is difficult to press, that is, you need to push the wheel down pretty hard to register the click, so hard that it is easy to tilt the wheel and end up doing a left or right scroll instead. I wasn't really looking for a mouse that did left and right scroll with the wheel so I programmed left and right tilt to have the same functionality as the middle button. It's kinda sad that it had to come down to this, but the bright side is that I only need to use my middle finger to tilt the wheel left in order to middle click, I don't have to move my middle finger from the right mouse button and place it right on top of the wheel to do a middle click anymore. It'll take some getting used to though.
2. If you were looking for a gaming mouse, go find a different mouse. The mouse will freak out if you move it too fast. My old MX500 always tracked well no matter how fast you moved it. However, when playing FPS games, I have not hit the speed limit with the mouse (my playing style is calm and deliberate and not moving like I am heavily caffeinated), though I can imagine that some players may complain when doing a quick wrist flick to do a 180 degree turn.
Customer Review: The comfortable Logitech MX 400
Summary: 4 Stars
Designed specifically for right handed people - I use the Logitech "MX 400 Performance Laser Mouse" with my desktop Macintosh computer, and love it. The "MX 400" is said to have a more accurate tracking ability than an ordinary "optical" mouse, however, this is not why I recommend it. I find the "MX 400" to be as good as my old Kensington "Elite Optical" mouse for routine tracking, but in spite of the hype about laser tracking being better, I have not found this to be the case. In fact, when I use "Photoshop Elements" to trace the outline of an object in a picture, the "MX 400" is a little trickier to control than my old "Elite Optical". But what makes the "MX 400" a great mouse to use, is its overall shape, and the placement of its two customizable side buttons. The "MX 400" is ergonomic without being weird, and is the most comfortable mouse I have ever used. Its two customizable buttons are both on the left side, and very easy to trigger by just the use of my thumb. Other mice I have used, including the "Elite Optical", had a customizable button on both the left and right side of the mouse, and positioned them in a way that made it awkward to trigger either without first shifting my hand's grip on the mouse. This is not the case with the "MX 400" - this mouse allows me to hold it with a natural and comfortable grip all the time, while still being able to trigger either of its two custom side buttons quickly and easily. I therefore recommend the Logitech "MX 400 Performance Laser Mouse", for its superior design and great comfort in using.Customer Review: Very pleased so far!
Summary: 5 Stars
Coming from a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4.0, I can tell you this is a vast improvement. Granted, I'm a little bitter about the Explorer as the right-click failed after a little over a years worth of use, but that aside, I'll try to be fair as I compare the two...
Both mice are fairly similar in form - roughly the same size and shape (so the transition for me was quite easy).
Function - The navigation seems more precise, more exact. The tilt wheel feature is head and shoulders above the Explorer. Again, it feels much more precise - more akin to a click when you move it from left to right as opposed to the Intellimouse, which has more of *mushy* feel to it (those who have used it will know what I mean - the Logitech is much better in this regard).
Software - Other reviewers have mentioned the poor software that accompanies this mouse...the jury's still out for me. I have tried to speed the vertical scroll up for browsing, but haven't been all that successful as of yet (in all fairness I haven't spent a whole lot of time trying). So this really could be an issue with the software, or then again, just plain old operator error.
All in all, for the money, I'm very pleased with the product and I'm hard pressed to think there's a better mouse out there at this price point. If you're looking for a mouse with this form factor, you really can't go wrong.