Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
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Manufacturer: LogitechAudio: English (Original Language)
Model: 910-000173
Color: Black
Product features:
- Interchangeable grips
- Ultra gaming-grade precision
- Plug-and-play performance
- Weight tuning system
- Custom-color LED display
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Customer Review: Logitech G9 Mouse
Summary: 5 Stars
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The G9 Laser mouse comes packaged in two triangular boxes. One box holds the mouse. The other box contains an additional grip, a breath mint size tin containing 8 weights, and software. The mouse attaches to a computer with a USB plug at the end of a thin braided cable. At no time did the cable ever get in the way when moving the mouse. It always slid away easily. I just wonder if the cable is thick enough to protect the wires inside, especially since the mouse is intended to travel from computer to computer. Maybe I worry too much. The mouse slides on polished plastic pads which are not replaceable. They will probably outlast the cable. There are two small slots near the front and back pads. I poked at them a couple of times then thought better of trying to take the mouse apart. I'll wait until doing so becomes necessary.
A large grip with a thumb rest comes installed on the mouse. It's very easy to move the mouse with this grip as the thumb rest becomes a sort of handle. There is a large button on the back of the mouse that moves two metal pins and unlocks the grip. The other grip included is smaller and has a gritty feel. Logitech claims the coating is absorbent but when my hands got moist the grip felt slick. I prefer the size of the gritty grip and the surface of the thumbrest grip. I guess I'll be shopping for a new grip soon. I wonder if any dealers will stock them.
Underneath the grip is a slide out drawer that can hold up to 4 of the extra weights. You can put as little as an extra 4 grams or as much as 28 extra grams of weight into this drawer. No matter how I positioned the weights in the drawer the mouse was always stable. The 28 grams of weight really anchor the mouse to the playing surface. As the weights effect the speed of the mouse I envision using the weights to tune the mouse to different surfaces.
The mouse has a left and right button, a scroll wheel that can be depressed as well as toggled left and right, and another toggle switch on the left side, totalling 8 different controls that can be programmed. One nice feature is a ratchet switch on the bottom of the mouse. Pressing this gives the scroll wheel a feel of 12 or 16 notches per revolution. It takes a little pressure on the wheel to feel the hesitation as the scroll wheel turns. This is a nice feature and I hope Logitech puts it on their other mice. Above the left mouse button is a toggle swith to change the speed of the mouse. The mouse speed is displayed as a series of 4 LEDs above this switch. One light is shaped like a small running man. That light and the next light are always lit. Although the preprogrammed profiles only have 3 available mouse speeds as many as 5 can be chosen. With two LEDs always lit, the display doesn't indicate which of the two slowest mouse speeds are selected. Why have LEDs that aren't functional? The plastic of the right mouse button extend above the display lights, but pushing on the plastic has no effect in that area. On the bottom of the mouse is a profile selection button. This must be held down and the profiles are selected by the mouse speed toggle. I don't think this process is intuitive. The instructions for selecting among the profiles isn't in the user guide that comes with the mouse and not in the online documentation. The instructions are written on an extra thin piece of paper. I expected to move through the profiles by just pressing the bottom button. Either way, it would be nice if the profile button was on the top of the mouse. Three programs are included with the mouse but these don't really demonstrate the multitude of programming options available. That's ok though. Programming the mouse is where the fun is.
Loading the setpoint sofware only takes a few minutes. I loaded it with my firewall up. Even though I selected don't check for updates online, the software periodically starts the online search process when I turn on my computer. I also had shutdown problems when Windows wasn't able to shut the mouse down when my computer was shut off. After a couple on/off cycles this problem went away. The software puts an icon in the system tray and a folder to store profiles in My Documents. Clicking on the icon gives you access to a programming console. A drop down box lists the different profiles. A list of settings appears on the right. You can program the mouse by selecting a function from the left side menu or by clicking the edit buttons on the right side. There is a 120 choice color pallet to use to change the color of the mouse's LEDs for the different profiles. Although the colors look very similar on the programming console, they are easily distinguishable on the LED display. There are 48 choices for programming the buttons plus the ability to record macros using different mouse clicks and keystokes which really extends the possibilities. The Zoom controls are nice. The pointer speed is adjustable in 200 dpi increments from 200 dpi to 3200 dpi. 1 to 5 different speeds are available for each profile. The x axis and y axis can be adjusted separately. There is also an acceleration control and a number of different polling rates to choose from. Finally, there is an adjustment for the scroll wheel speed.
Creating a new profile is simple. In the program manager you select the new button, provide a profile name, and choose whatever different features you want. There is a menu of created profiles in the program manager. To load the profile into the mouse's memory requires you to press the onboard memory button and then transfer the profiles between the two menus using arrow controls. There is a selection in the profile manager to assign specific applications to a profile. I was unable to test whether this automatic selection process was confused by different versions of the same application, but it appears that as long as the versions are in different folders it should work fine.
This mouse is a great product and very versatile with no serious problems. It's features are very usable and well thought out. For someone like me who is always fighting with a mouse trying to get it to move where I want, this mouse is almost perfect.
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