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Originally Posted by goofyballer
idk, never had that problem.
I just ordered one of these for my work computer:
I like the side buttons a lot and how they have the same form as the ones I'm used to on my trackball and can be hit with clicking fingers instead of mouse holding fingers. If I like it enough I might switch it with the SteelSeries at home.
This came today, and so the goofyballer work battlestation is complete:
It has 3 on-board profiles you can set up, color-coded on the side of the mouse (so right now I'm on green). The configuration software gives you lots of options:
Sample SC2 profile - using 3 buttons as control groups (7/8/9), and two as camera hotkeys (shift+f3/f4). If you want, you can set up buttons to switch between DPI settings (each profile has 4 you can switch between, at increments of 250).
As I expected, the extra buttons are awesome and pretty easily reachable, so if you want to be able to bind a lot of commands to your mouse this is pretty handy. There's 5 buttons (6 if you want to reclaim the profile switch button) you can access with your pointer fingers, and while maybe other people like the style better where extra buttons are on the side, this seems like it'd be way more effective and precise.
The one downside, for me, is that it's pretty small:
I think a lot of people prefer that, but where the SteelSeries seems like it can be used both palm or claw style as you prefer, this one is definitely not a palm mouse, but I feel like I'm trying to use it that way anyway so my hand winds up sitting on the mousepad. I may well take this one home and bring the SS to work, since this is a mouse I'll be using for everyday purposes for long periods of time and not something I'll be using exclusively for gaming, and things I like about this one (button variety + placement) are more suited for that than work purposes. The comfort of the SS mouse and the smoothness I feel when moving it (as if I'm softly navigating my cursor through a river of fluffy clouds) definitely blow this one away.
I also might take the MVP mousepad to work and compare it to the TL one - they're actually very different, the MVP one has a rough texture to give it more friction I guess, TL one is totally smooth.
But anyway, this was only $30 on Amazon, so if the style seems like something you'd like it's a pretty ****ing great value.