$70 Cordless Notebook Mouse with No Scroll Wheel 372
superfloungmous writes "CoolTechZone.com has reviewed Logitech's latest V500 Cordless Notebook Mouse that uses 2.4GHz wireless technology to transmit signal and has a scroll panel instead of a scroll wheel. The concept behind a scroll wheel is you simply move your finger in up, down, left and right directions to use the function. The mouse has a whopping $70.00 price tag as well. Could this be the end of scroll wheels? Here's a quote from the review, "One of the unique things about the V500 is its scroll panel, and this is the very first mouse to actually use this concept. Throughout our testing, we are nothing but impressed with Logitech's new idea. It worked perfectly, and it's actually better than a scroll wheel in many instances. It looks like the era of scroll wheels is short-lived if Logitech applies the same design to its desktop equivalent products."
Pictures? (Score:1, Funny)
2.4 GHz (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pictures? (Score:2, Funny)
User preference differ (Score:3, Funny)
I think it would be harder to keep from making mousing mistakes with a scroll pad than a wheel, which requires more effort to engage.
But still, people who like touchpads will probably like the scroll pad. People who make mistakes with touch pads probably will not like the scroll pad, either.
What the!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:whooping! (Score:2, Funny)
-Jesse
Re:2.4 GHz (Score:3, Funny)
Re:2.4 GHz (Score:4, Funny)
Oh. SHIT.
Re:Doomsday? (Score:2, Funny)
Ok, ok, I'm sorry.
D
Re:small nit to pick (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Thinkpads (Score:3, Funny)
"My hands can stay on the keyboard"
Yea right.
Re:whooping! (Score:2, Funny)
Are water cooled cpu gags going to be the next hot mod?
KFG
Re:keep reading (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I have one (Score:5, Funny)
I already have a mouse (Score:3, Funny)
Re:small nit to pick (Score:3, Funny)
A mouse on top of a mouse.
Re:small nit to pick (Score:4, Funny)
Re:2.4 GHz (Score:5, Funny)
Back in the day when I was working on a DOS based, flat file database app; one of the new guys discovered that if you moved the mouse, searchs, updates, maintenance processing, ran faster.
The logical reason was that the interupt checking to see if the user had hit the space bar to cancel, was firing and not waiting that extra milisecond because the mouse was saying 'nope nothing happening here' quicker than just timing out the interupt. So you just balance the mouse on the SHIFT key and boom, faster processing of long reports!
The Customer Support people in house were like "We are NOT telling that to customers!"
Re:2.4 GHz (Score:4, Funny)
Re:sounds like the iPod interface (Score:4, Funny)
Actually they are almost exactly the same.
Re:2.4 GHz (Score:2, Funny)