So for my replacement, I decided to get the Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX.
Here's a pic of them side by side:
What I really like about this mouse is the hyper fast scrolling and the dark field technology.
The hyper fast scrolling allows you to scroll through a 50 page pdf document in 2-3 seconds, making the middle click quite redundant. Oh by the way, pressing the scroll wheel changes between hyper fast and normal scrolling mode, the middle click button is the one below the scroll wheel (with the 2 window icon).
The dark field technology is incredible, it makes the mouse works anywhere, really. And as logitech has claimed, it works on glass too. Only one surface it failed to work prolly: mirror, just tried it for fun, who uses a mouse on a mirror surface anyways?
The 2 special feature is indeed special and impressive, however, the Anywhere mouse disappoints me in the ergonomics.
Many other reviews mention that the Anywhere Mouse "feels really good in hand" etc. I really beg to differ. Here's why:
1. The 2 sides of the mouse curves outwards.
This is actually very irritating, as when you grip the mouse, your 4th finger and last finger tends to touch the table surface, the curve outwards causes a quite sharp (pokey) edge near the bottom. What you get is a quite noticeable uncomfortable feeling in your 4th and last finger.
The Bluetooth Mouse's sides are curved inwards, it's really superb. Not only there is no sharp edge, the curve inwards accommodates the natural curl of your fingers when you use a "claw grip" on a mouse.
A pic to show what i mean. Notice the red line i drawn on the Anywhere Mouse
2. The mouse is too flat.
The Anywhere mouse doesn't offer any support on your palm. Even though you will not fully rest your palm on this 2 small mice, the support of your palm makes the grip feeling nicer, like holding something.
You can see in this pic (as well as the preceding pic) that Anywhere Mouse is indeed flatter.
3. Too small to be big, too big to be small.
The Anywhere mouse is too small to be comfortable as a full size ergonomic mouse like Razer's Deathadder, Lachesis. However, it's abit too big to be comfortable as a mobile mouse. As mentioned above, "Crawl Grip" usually means your 4th and last fingers are curled inwards, the wider width causes your grip to feel quite awkward, and creates a strain.
The width difference between the Bluetooth mouse and Anywhere mouse is approximately 1cm:
4. Very very heavy mouse
I did a weight measurement for both of the mice:
Anywhere Mouse:
80g without Batteries
130g with 2 AA Batteries
105g with 1 AA Battery
Bluetooth Mouse:
60g without Batteries
84g with 2 AAA Batteries
(Using Sanyo Eneloop AA and AAA battereies)
AA batt has approx 2.5x higher capacity than AAA, so the battery life is obviously higher. Thus, Logitech very "smart-alec-ly" used AA instead of AAA batteries, the weight goes a lot higher.
Conclusion:
In all, the Dark field and Hyper fast scroll is indeed interesting features, however, the ergonomics of the mouse is very very bad, compared to the Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse. The weight and the bad design makes it feel very uncomfortable. You can already feel the strain on your arm just using the Anywhere mouse for just 30 mintues.
On a side note, the design of the Anywhere Mouse is pretty similar to the Razer Orochi, which was the mouse i had before the Microsoft one, and it had the same issues.
No comments:
Post a Comment