Time for a new mouse

[8bit]

After 12 or so years of sterling service my old Logitech G5 is finally on it's last legs. I haven't paid any attention to the mouse market at all since I got the G5 so no idea how it's evolved, but everything in that segment now appears to be horribly angular, covered in RGB lights and buttons and very expensive.

So my criteria are:

* Wired (can't be doing with charging batteries)
* Must have thumb (back) button at least
* Must have scroll wheel
* Decent size, as I have fairly large hands and don't like to hold a mouse "fingertip style"
* Reasonable price - not paying £150 for a mouse FFS
* Not look like The Terminator's first dump of the day.

Open to suggestions...

ETA - doesn't *have* to be a gaming mouse, main criteria is comfortable for use by those with relatively large hands and have the back button.

[8bit]

hyphen said:

8bit said:

* Wired (can't be doing with charging batteries)

Opening a cover and chucking in 2 AA batteries every THREE years is a non-issue.

Get a Logitech M705, ditch wired and thank me later.

Edited by hyphen on Monday 19th February 22:20

I've had wireless mice in the past, granted a long time ago (I've had the wired G5 for 12 years so that gives some context), I'd be doing well to get three MONTHS out of a set of batteries back then, never mind years. Have they really improved that much in that time?

Also - what is latency like these days? That was the other thing that annoyed me back then.

[8bit]

Thanks all.

On paper the M705 appears slightly shorter (lengthwise, not height) than the M500 so veering more towards the M500 at the moment. One thing that concerns me slightly - the "hyper fast" scrolling. I popped in to PC World last night as they had a display of various mice, not connected to a computer or anything but just there to hold and stuff. A couple of the Logi ones had that hyper-fast scrolling, that's the sort of step-less scroll wheel. I didn't like the feel of it at all (obviously without being able to use it on a computer), is that something one would get used to?

I did actually buy a mouse, some cheap Advent thing - it felt really comfortable in hand, ideal size and shape for me - got it home, plugged it in, lasted 3 minutes. Didn't track properly on any surface, actually the worse mouse I've ever used.