best mouse for work

[Krisztian Gulyas]

I know it depends on a lot of factors.

 

In the office, where I work, they asked me to find a few mice that is similar to the Logitech G100s (same shape, similiar weight, about 80-90gramms etc), but some different mouse click travel distance, more sensitive tracking (3000+DPI). Most of us use a combination of claw+fingertip grip.

 

The only mouse I found is the G303 from Logitech.

 

Which one would you recommend?

 

Thank you!

Edited August 16, 2016 by krisztiangulyas

[algisraubiska]

Personaly I work with Logitech Marathon m705 (bought a long time, like 5-6 years ago), but neither it's form nor weight will fit into your search terms.

It's perfect form for my tastes and It has a side button situated near the curve for the thumb, I've assigned it as a middle button for Pan'ing and it's much more comfortable than pressing a mouse wheel (all of other mice I've ever used eventualy gets this button dead from constant pushing), and works like for 2 years with two AA batteries.

I'd go with Logitech MX Master if I needed to renew the hardware.

[Krisztian Gulyas]

Thank you for the reply. I've been searching a little more and just found the (just announced, about a few hours ago) Logitech Pro. I can say it's identical to g100s, only it's better based on the specs. It's exactly what I've been looking for.

[Dimitris Tolios]

On the DPI of the sensor: forget the 3000 dpi "requirement". This is waaaay to sensitive / fast for most people. Even dedicated gamers don't really use more than 1200-1600 dpi in screens with "usual" ppi. Note that dpi on the mouse is linking inches (or mm/distance in general) traveled by the hand/mouse, with pixels on the screen, not inches (physical dimensions) on the screen. If you have a 1000 dpi mouse and a 1080p screen, you need to travel ~2in on your mousepad to cover the width of the screen (~2K pixels). You would need double that sensitivity (2000dpi) to do the same move and cover the width of a 4K screen. Depending on how the UI is scaled though, 2000 dpi might not be practical for most people to use the pointer with consistency without overshooting their target 2/3 times.

 

Thus mice like the G400s / G500s etc, might be gimmicky over-burdenned with keys and options, but do come with a very handy feature: adjustable sensitivity through dedicated buttons on the mouse itself, that by default don't need drivers to access some factory set steps, and are very easy to explain even to people that don't care to dive into mouse utilities and optimization software to fine tune their own preferences to the exact. "Oh, if the mouse is too sensitive or too slow, press "-" behind the wheel, or "+" infront respectively till its to your liking"...that's all you need to explain. (ok, in some models those are not by the wheel, but that's easy to adapt to).

 

The fully symmetrical / rounded designs the generation of mice before the Logitech G100s had is falling out of favor, with more contoured designs emerging, starting with the MX 518, G400s (both of which where the choices for workstation mice in my previous DTLA office) and the latest manifestation in this class, the G500s.

 

A compromise in price could also be the G300s which tries a symmetrical contoured shape for both right and left handed use (if that's a concern in an office with people that do use the left hand for the pointing device, rare even between left handed people, but happens). But it doesn't have the dedicated sensitivity buttons. It can be programmed to do the trick, but you need the utlitilties package from logitech to map this function on some of the extra buttons.

 

Another much simpler design with fixed dpi (1000) could be the Logitech M500 that is easily usable as both a claw or palm mouse and feels the right size for many hand sizes. 1000 dpi is a good setting for most "regular" ppi panels: 24" 1080p / 1200p should be a good pair with 1000 dpi for most people.

 

Notice that people have religious attachments to their favorite mice, thus loved out-of-production models like the MX 518 are insanely marked up as supply drops in search of "devout" supporters that are willing to pay "anything". So if you commit to uniformity through "the ages", maintaining the exact shape and/or model might be a ever-increasingly-more-expensive proposition.

Edited August 16, 2016 by dtolios

[simonm]

I was getting sore wrists from your conventional mouse so i purchased an evoluent vertical mouse 4 - best investment ever. It has a natural holding position - like a handshake and all my pain now gone! couldnt recommend this highly enough. Has an extra button which i use as a double click - so 1 click makes it double click - and you know as well as i do how much we clickety click

 

my 2 cents....

[Chris MacDonald]

I have a pretty basic dell mouse, but it has forward/back buttons and on-mouse adjustable sensitivity. Any more features would likely be lost on me at great expense.

[RyderSK]

I was getting sore wrists from your conventional mouse so i purchased an evoluent vertical mouse 4 - best investment ever. It has a natural holding position - like a handshake and all my pain now gone! couldnt recommend this highly enough. Has an extra button which i use as a double click - so 1 click makes it double click - and you know as well as i do how much we clickety click

 

my 2 cents....

 

It really helped you that much ? I really need to buy one and try. My right wrist is getting problematic way too soon for my age. Pulsing, twitching...all kinds of mess.

 

I use Logitech Performance (now Performance Master ), every other mouse on market looks like gaming trash to me and isn't ergonomic enough, but even this mouse I hold almost like it would be vertical, with half of my hand....

[TomasEsperanza]

I've mostly used the Logitech Performance MX mice for last 5 years or so. However, I now use an Evoluent mouse.

 

I must concur, the "handshake" grip is no gimmick, I have had rsi type discomfort for years, not just from mice, but musicianship too. (However I don't play much these days, and the problem only rears it's ugly head when "mousing" or driving.) The Evoluent eased this to the point that I am rarely getting that pain any more, so pretty impressive tbh.

[Amen]

I use the vertical mouse, too.

The best thing I ever did. At the company, where I work part-time, nearly everybody got one.

 

After a long 12 hour/day week of 3d even a vertical mouse will not help you anymore. But eight hours a day working with a mouse are not a problem anymore.

I was at the point where a normal mouse was very painful to use after just a few hours.

 

As a sidenote, my brother works at VW and he said most of the office workers get a vertical mouse if they complain about pain.

[Jose Negrete]

I also got an evoluent vertical mouse 4 this year and it's also made a big difference for me. Much more comfortable for me (8-11hrs use per day). Before getting that model we got a $20 anker vertical mouse to test out for a month or two. The anker was fine but much stiffer wheel click.