Logitech G7

SithUK

SithUK

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I've been wanting to make the move to a wireless laser mouse for some time now. I bought the mx1000 a few months back and returned it for two reasons:

My wrist was bent completely back when using it because it is huge / bricklike. The pain was agony after only 5 or 6 hours hours of CSS. I sometimes play for 12hours at a stretch at the weekend.

I never realised that I lift my mouse frequently to recentre it under the centre of my hand. Otherwise if I'd have to have a mouse area the size of a desk and have my arm stretched all over the place. My beloved 5 year old logitech MX300 cuts out at about 2mm off the desk meaning my wrist doesn't have to bend much to lift and recentre. The mx1000 had to be lifted a crazy amount as I recall causing more wrist pain.

My question is this: Has the G7 resolved these issues? Has it got a lovely tiny profile? Does its tracking cut out once lifted about 2mm off the surface?
 
The G7 is a very nice mouse although I've yet to use mine for gaming properly, it fits my hand very comfortably although I could also use the MX1000 without much in the way of issues either. It is definitely smaller though and lighter.

I don't know exactly how high you would have to lift the mouse but it doesn't seem to be particularly far to me.
 
all logitech mice are very similary designed, if you don't like the MX1000 that G7 will not be for you. You may be more suited to a Razer, but they do't make a wireless version sadly.
 
I own a G7, as for cutting out, I'd have to guess (and quickly measured) at about 1-2mm also. I have onlt ever owned Logitech mice, so I'm biased to their shape ...
 
I love my G7, before I had the MX700 which is another goos mouse, but the G7 is lighter easier to work, swapping the batteries only take a few seconds for continous gaimg. I suppose I too am biased towards Logitech, but they do make the best mice & keyboards ;)
 
The only times I've seen people complain about Logitech mice is when they're used to using Razer or another brand of mouse. If you didn't like the shape of the MX1000 then chances are you won't like the G7. Saying that, from what people have said on here it does seem to be a smaller, lighter, better mouse. But I wouldn't hold out high hopes.
 
Well on the point of lifting (compared against the mx700)

with no batteries the G7 is slightly heavier but the battery pack for the G7 is pretty light compared to 2 AAs making the mx700 feel much heavier when they have batteries in

if the mx1000 used AAs then overall id expect the G7 to be lighter and not so much of a problem
 
iv got a g5, i think they are the same as the g7 but wired.

when i 1st got it i found it so hard to aim and i was losin a lot of games because of it. I gave it a month and now im top 5 everygame, any high class mouse will take time to get used to. I would reccoment the g7. sexual mouse
 
I had the same problems as you because ive had the mx1000. The other thing that used to anoy me was it ised to keep slipping out my hand. Now ive got the g7 its a lot better and you dont get none of the problems that you get with the mx1000. The only thing i dont like bout my g7 it my batterys seem to die pritty quick and cant seem to buy them anywhere.
 
Its not the weight that gave me the problems with lifting the mx1000 it was the height I had to lift it so that it would stop tracking the surface.

I constantly recentre my mouse during play by lifting it and setting it back down so that the mouse is in the centre point of my wrist movement. So to continue looking right to do a 360 degree spin I would rotate right, lift mouse back to centre, drop, rotate right some more.

The mx1000 was forcing me to lift it a lot higher than my mx300 optical to stop it tracking the surface causing me wrist pain after many hours. Weight isn't so much the issue, its tracking height.

If the mouse is tracking the surface when I lift it then when i recentre it in the air i'd rotate back left again in the above example.

Am I the only person who lifts to recentre a mouse??? I like to have my wrist fixed and never move during play. I only move my hand by rotating it from side to side with my wrist acting as pivot point resting on the desk.

No one else does this?

My question to the G7 owners is how far above the surface does the mouse stop tracking. My mx300 cuts out at about 3mm which means I only have to barely lift my hand. I'd love for the G7 to be the same.

VaderDSL has roughly measured his G7 tracking cut off and estimates it to be 2mm. Can anyone else verify?
 
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