Friday, September 02, 2005

Logitech Cordless Internet Pro Desktop Black

It's a wireless keyboard and optical mouse set.
IMO, this piece of hardware sucks beyond comparison.

Let me point out the major details.

If you release pressure on a key, making it go up even a millimetre, it's considered lifting the key up totally. Now i have no problem with that but... With my old keyboard, the point in time where the key would no longer be considered as being pressed was also the time when the key would begin to pop back up.

The mouse is also very hard to configure and it was only by some dumb stroke of luck that i did manage to. At the beginning, changing any setting for the mouse like pointer motion and etc couldn't be done. What i'm saying is if i moved the slider to adjust the motion, the minute i let go, the damn thing went back to it's original position.

I only managed to "fix" it by resynchronizing the device with my computer and then not allowing the Logitech software to "set-up" the device accordingly. The Logitech software still controls the mouse settings though but now i'm using the wireless optical mouse generically.

The maximum mouse motion speed is less than half of what i used to have with my old trackball wired mouse. So now I'm stuck with having to use acceleration to compensate for the slowness of the cursor. I hate acceleration.

There's no caps lock light. It uses the on screen display of "CAPs lock is on" which for some reason makes the screen refresh very slowly and that seriously screws up any game that i'm playing. Not too mention any 3d display that i am using for modelling.

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You also can't press more than 2 keys at a time. or at least that's what i got. When playing CS, if i press "W and D" or "W and A", i can't press any of the number keys except "1". So i can't change my fucking weapon while running. Talk about being screwed.
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These are my own personal and probably "spoilt" gripes but nonetheless are still valid. lol.

The back end of the mouse is way to big for me. The part where your palm normally rests on a mouse is very high.

No "next/previous" button for media. They already have a "Media(start program)" and "play/pause" button here. You'd think that they'd know that most people would normally use these keys to control their music while working in another window.

The button that say "WWW" shows no WWW when pressed. My solution was to customise it to open up my browser manually by linking it with the executable.

Only three "extra" buttons are customisable. (Heard all of them are customisable in later versions of the program though). The favourites button, Email, and WWW . The rest, Media, Play/Pause, Mute and volume, aren't.

For me, even as a semi-designer, i still prefer the trackball mouse. it's a WhereYouMoveIsWhereYouGo kind of thing. It's got no frills and does what you want it to.

This set retails at $59 at comex. Regardless of it's price, Logitech shouldn't be coming out with keyboard of this standard.

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