For the past several years I’ve been using this mouse. From the day I started using it I loved it. It’s so comfortable, all the buttons are right where I need them etc etc etc. After about a year or two I started having a problem. The left mouse button, when clicked would sometimes register as a double click. Odder still is that sometimes holding down the button, the computer would seem to think that at some point I lifted the button and re-clicked it. It wasn’t a huge deal at first, I could deal with most of the consequences of this. But as it got worse it was harder to deal with. Firefox has what seems to be a unique feature in that if you highlight something you can then grab it with the mouse and drag it around and it’ll paste it somewhere else. It’s a feature I’ve never used on purpose and I didn’t know until my mouse started doing it on it’s own (see the above sentence on releasing and reclicking while holding down the button). Again, I loved this mouse so I just dealt with it. The kicker really came at the beginning of a month when I had to reconcile my business checkbooks. About a thousand transactions, each one has to be clicked one at a time as you match it up with the bank statement. Double clicking on something when you don’t realize you double clicked on it adds considerable time (since it’ll uncheck it without you realizing).
I did some research on Google and found that it’s a common problem in this mouse with the microswitch. I called Logitech and they sent out a new one.
After about a year the same thing happened to the new one. Called Logitech again and they sent out a third one. I’ve had this one for only a month or so and it’s already giving me the same problems.
Today I’m going to run up to Bestbuy and pick up this one. It appears to be an updated version of the one I have, maybe the updated the microswitches as well. I figure I only paid for the mouse once and I’m on the third one. I’ll give them another shot. If this one does the same thing I’ll start looking into a different brand.
I really hope this one does well. Other then this problem I’ve never been this happy with a mouse. I think it’s a combonation of where the buttons are, the fact that it weighs almost nothing and the little curved part that holds your thumb. Keeping your thumb off the desk makes it appear to move even smoother.
Corded, non-optical. Ack.