I bought a replacement mouse for my old Logitech USB optical mouse which has given me over five years of trouble-free faithful service. The one I decided to buy was a Logitech LX3. It is a lower-end model but not so low as to be considered bargain-bin. In other words, a slightly-above-par mouse.
Or so I thought.
The LX3 is absolutely terrible. It feels weird in the hand, the extra left-scroll/right-scroll wheel buttons sound cool to begin with but prove to be worthless very quickly due to the odd finger motions to make it work. Yes, it does operate properly, but the overall feel of the mouse is just plain bad.
I bought this mouse earlier today. Currently it’s back in its box and I’m going to go get a refund. I hated it that much.
On a scale of 1 to 10 I give this mouse a -1000. It sucks.
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Julius B Thyssen said:
9/13/2007 8:37 pm
Indeed, what a strange mouse this is. The stupid salesperson at MyCom talked me into this one, because the others were sold-out. One would think Logitech has the mouse-comfort down, but this seems not the way.
The LX3 Optical has very weird movement accellerating speed (deviating from the norm), and as said before: The shape is just idiotic and feels crappy. No matter how you change its settings, they remain off.
Looks a lot better than it feels and functions. DON’T BUY THIS ONE!
I too am returning it tomorrow. I’d rather get my money back (I thought 24,95 euros was expensive by the way) than strain injure my hand with this mistake.
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RedX said:
9/18/2007 7:42 pm
I actually like this mouse a lot. It feels fine in my hand and I don’t have any speed problems with it. I did find the left and right scroll functions to be quite useless, but using the setpoint program from logitech I simply replaced them. Now my left middle click is alt-tab and it is really convenient. I don’t find it hard at all to use the left and right wheel either. It is quite cheap so I am satisfied with my purchase.
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Andreas said:
5/12/2008 5:46 am
its terrible for gaming. the buttons and top of the mouse are one piece so it’s hard to push down. my fingers ached after a bit. awful. it looks nice but dont get deceived by that like i did.
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