My mouse started failing today
A long time ago, I purchased a wired Corsair gaming mouse that does not have a model listed on it. It has a white top with black sides, a red targeting button, and three adjustable weights on the bottom. The Corsair logo does light up which is fun. The Windows Device Manager application just notes it as a HID-compliant mouse under the mice and other pointing devices section. Even in the information section it does not tell me the model of the mouse. My email archives don’t go back far enough to actually figure out where I bought this mouse or when it was purchased. My initial guess had been that it was from Newegg or maybe Best Buy. It’s a classic Corsair branded gaming mouse so it really could be from just about any retailer. I keep a wired basic Logitech mouse as a backup for computer builds or situations like this one. The mouse is jumping around and has a sticky click scenario where it closes tons of tabs with a single click in my browser.
My computer setup is based on having one primary computer hooked up to my stacked monitors at one time. The two Dell ultrawide computer monitors housed on an ATDEC stand are set up to go to the default video source. My thunderbolt hub connects to them by USB-C cables and this Windows machine housed in my be quiet! Dark Base Pro 901 computer case is connected by HDMI cables. My keyboard and mouse are handled separately by a USB 3.0 switch selector. I have to manually hit a button on this switch to swap the input hardware between the hub or my Windows build. This works out well enough and I have found that a lot of the time I just use my MacBook Air and let the Windows workstation just hang out. My video games like Diablo 2 resurrected need that Windows machine to make the 4K gaming magic happen.
Using this basic Logitech mouse is a very different user experience. The usability and feel are a lot different which must be based on a sensor difference. My guess is that the sensor on the basic one is just slower or somehow lower quality. I’m probably going to have to do some research into buying another mouse, but it is one of those things that I’m not sure is super differentiated anymore. I feel like the mouse technology plateaued at some point and is just as good as it is generally going to get based on what you pay for in terms of a sensor. You won’t be surprised to find out that ChatGPT has a lot of suggestions on what mouse to buy these days based on a variety of considerations. I may try to survive using my backup mouse for as long as possible. We will see where this journey ends up going.
I used to use a Razer Naga. They're often over $100, and while I love them, I guess I'm hard on mice, so they'd die every year or so. And $100 a year is not *bad* but also, seemed like too much.
So I found a great Logitech mouse that had a similar button layout (I use the 12 buttons on the side mice because I'm a Real Gamer<tm>). Loved it. Finally the middle mouse scroll broke. I went to get another one 4 years later and found out Logitech didn't make them any more.
I tried 4 different mice from 4 different brands before I finally found one that felt good enough. If the 4th hadn't worked, I was gonna go back to the Naga.
Which is all to say, "I get it."
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll take a look at that Razer Naga mouse. I was looking at maybe getting the Razer DeathAdder V3 which is wired.