MediaPlay Cordless Mouse - Blue

[Ocire]

Well, I was finally just absolutely fed up with my two year old ball bearing, Dell mouse. So I went out and spent 53 bucks on a new Logitech MediaPlay Cordless Mouse - Blue.

This mouse is really great. It has Left click, Right click, tiltable scroll wheel, a media button you can click to open all popular music players, a play/pause button, volume control, and two other buttons used in Logitech's music player. There's also two other buttons that can be set for useful shortcuts (copy, paste, forward, backward, etc).

The mouse can be plugged up threw USB or PS/2 and has a distance of 10 feet. For comfortably I would say the bigger your hand, the better..but if your hand is smaller, you do need to keep your index and middle finger spread somewhat apart.

It's a very smoothe mouse. And I would definately recommend it.

PS: It also has a cool light up feature when you click certain buttons.

Official Logitech MediaPlay Cordless Mouse - Blue page:

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products...,CONTENTID=9340

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Quick Review...

PROS:

***a lot of convenient buttons

***very comfortable

***easy set up

***set up buttons to do a lot of things

***good battery life

CONS:

***side buttons hard to reach with thumb

***not comfortable used as a remote

***fingers have to be a little spread out..somewhat uncomfortable

Edited September 2, 2005 by ocire

[Opelman]

Thanx for the review

I like the mouse a lot I think in having a one...I have a 2-year old Microsoft mouse and believe me it's sucks.

Cheers

[bob_loblaw]

Oh man that is a sweet mouse. I must add that to my must get list.

[Code.Red]

Great review, and nice mouse, too! The volume control seems really handy! (Y)

[CipherFlaw]

This mouse feels very good in my hand. I've had one for almost a year, and it's still working great. The batteries that came with it still have some juice, I thought they were going to die on me a long time ago. So that tells you it doesn't chew up your batteries :pint:

I highly recommend it.

[Ocire]

wow..your batteries have lasted a year? i got a pop up about an hour ago saying Mouse Batteries Low...i've had the mouse for 2 days..so they better last!! lol

[CipherFlaw]

When you are done with your computer for the day, flip the switch on the bottom to turn it off. That should give your batteries a few more days to live :laugh:

[bob_loblaw]

Just got one yesterday and so far Im really happy about it. :D

Better than my old Microsoft Optical mouse and has all the features I need. It may not be a $100 laser mouse but I have no need for that.

Kinda wish the lights would stay on though instead of only turning on when you use the media buttons.

[squiro]

Had one now for about 3 or 4 months and its excellent.. i was using firefox 1.0 and the back and forward buttons never worked on the mouse properly which annoyed me a bit... so had to go back to IE ..

the new firefox beta 1.5 is out now which im testing and the back forward buttons on the mouse now work which helps...

apart from that the mouse is excellent.. best buy so far peripheral wise....

[Monkeh]

Install the Setpoint hack from http://logigamer.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=142

It'll double the mouse's functionality :yes:

This mouse is the best choice for users that handle a a lot of media and media playback software. I've never had a problem with its gaming performance either.

[Primie.uk]

I've got myself one of these the other day, bit disappointed myself, was really hard to set up, mouse doesn't work without mouse pad.

I'm now wanting to get rid of it, looking for a gaming mouse instead.

[asdflkjsdrhthfhrhr]

this is not a good review since it doesn ot haeve a thousand pretty pictures (N)(N)(N)(N)(N)(N)(N)

[CipherFlaw]

i was using firefox 1.0 and the back and forward buttons never worked on the mouse properly which annoyed me a bit... so had to go back to IE ..

586501967[/snapback]

Update your mouse drivers, my one buddy did that and said it was all good after that.

[slide]

I have replaced this mouse 2 times for the paint wearng out !

[Monkeh]

I have replaced this mouse 2 times for the paint wearng out !

586606134[/snapback]

Are you kidding me? Did you buy a new one or did the store actually replace it at no cost?

The silver wearing out is natural.

[dinojr]

I got the red/black one cause I had the silver paint wearing problem with my old logitech mouse. I don't think the glossy black wears off that easily and even if it does it shouldn't be that visible.

Mouse compatibility wasn't that great out of the box but thanks to program hotkeys, UberOptions, and a few hours of tinkering and adding custom key presses to my apps I have it just the way I want and now it's totally awesome. My 2300mAH rechargable batteries lasted a month without using the on/off switch.

I watch lots of videos on my pc so I use it as a remote a lot. It takes a little bit of time to get used to but I have it under control now. The only problem is that when holding it as a remote and watching videos in full screen mode, your fingers might move over the sensor causing cursor to reappear or even worse, move to the top or bottom of the screen causing the full screen controls in your media player to popup.

Other than that problem with the remote mode, it's the perfect mouse for me. I do some light gaming too and I found all the extra buttons very useful.