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: 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.
Customer Review: Fantastic accuracy
Summary: 5 Stars
Logitech MX 400 Performance Laser Mouse
Logitech MX400 Mouse
Last month I replaced a failing Dell mouse with the Logitech MX400 Performance Laser Mouse. I particularly wanted a cord type mouse and after trying several in the store, I settled on this one, then purchased it through Amazon.
I was drawn to the black and grey color scheme, more so to the contour shape since it fit comfortably into my arthritic hand.
Installation was a snap, programming easy. The increased accuracy of the laser technology over the trackball is brilliant. This mouse does so much more than any previously owned that I'm still in learning mode. For example, with the Logitech MX400 tracking is flawless on virtually any surface and one can scroll side to side and zoom in for closeup shots with the innovative Tilt Wheel Plus Zoom. Forward and backward buttons perform effortlessly for Web browsing and the soft contour sides fit a medium to small hand perfectly.
It has a PS/2 port or USB interface so works with any PC or Mac computer. SetPoint software guides you through the added features setup for Windows XP or Vista (downloads available at Logitech for Windows 98, ME and 2000).
Customer Review: Does What Its Suppose To DO
Summary: 5 Stars
I have owned 2 optical type mice and with both of them I had problems with them not tracking properly, for lack of a better word the pointer would stick. I could never figure out why this was happening. I would clean the lens, make sure my desktop was good and clean and even with my second optical mouse it would not track properly even becoming unresponsive at times. This would happen what seemed like every day.
So I finally got sick of it and did a search on the internet and found a couple of articles that state optical mice will not work well on a black surface. Well my desktop is black and I was having problems. So I ran across this laser mouse by Logitech and it has worked flawlessly for the week I've had it.
This mouse has other features that many people make like but I basically use a mouse for pointing and clicking and it does so without any tracking problems, so based on that I give this mouse 5 stars.
2/21/08
Just a follow up on above review. The mouse still works flawlessly after one and a half years of using this mouse. Using it now.