{"id":287,"date":"2011-01-26T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2011-01-26T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T13:44:26","slug":"new-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/new-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago I got the Microsoft Sidewinder X8 mouse<\/a>. It seemed like an awesome mouse at the time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rugged, enough buttons to be useful but not overwhelming, and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153works on anything\u00e2\u20ac\u009d BlueTrack technology. It was a little big, but I have big hands, so I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too worried about that.<\/p>\n

Well, it sucks. The receiver has to be really close to the mouse, or it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t track smoothly. The feet on the bottom of the mouse (any of them! it comes with three sets of interchangable feet!) don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t glide smoothly on my mousepad. The battery doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hold much charge anymore; and, to make matters worse, the charge cable doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seat snugly on the mouse and will sometimes stop mid-charge. It was also awkward to hold \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not because it was large, per se, but because it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really attempt to fit your hand.<\/p>\n

I finally got to my breaking point with it and decided to use some of my Christmas money to buy a replacement: the Logitech Performance Mouse MX<\/a>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only had it for a few days, but so far it is blowing the Sidewinder out of the water. The receiver is tiny, but even from all the way at the back of my computer, it flawlessly picks up the signal from the mouse. The feet on this mouse are incredibly smooth, letting it glide easily on the mousepad. And the contours on the mouse make it easy to grip.<\/p>\n

So, like I said, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still early days, but I have better hopes for this mouse. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago I got the Microsoft Sidewinder X8 mouse. It seemed like an awesome mouse at the time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rugged, enough buttons to be useful but not overwhelming, and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153works on anything\u00e2\u20ac\u009d BlueTrack technology. It was a little big, but I have big hands, so I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too worried about that. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,44],"tags":[166,7,82,79,80,83,81],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mageuzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}