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Why are there two scroll wheels on one mouse? My mind can't handle being this confounded
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Yo, dawg. I heard you liked scrolling so we put a wheel behind your wheel so you can scroll while you scroll.
Scroll wheel 2
I've got one of these for Photoshop. I've got the front wheel set up as normal, but the second wheel is set to change the brush size. It makes working much smoother, as I don't have to use the keyboard.
I had a mouse where one was vertical and the other horizontal, but I seem to think the horizontal scroll was oriented horizontally. Having googled the mouse in the picture, it says one is programmable and suggests it starts with volume.
Why wouldn't there just be a small trackball on the nose, wouldn't that be more practical?
Because you'd be constantly changing your volume up and down slightly while scrolling.
For navigating a great big thing that benefits from two axis scrolling? Yes. For literally anything else a scroll wheel might be used for, like swapping weapons in games? No. The clickyness of the average scroll wheel is actually pretty useful and can't really be applied to a trackball.
Bhopping in csgo
This mouse model was made decades ago for the time when would come the chosen one. The scroll master. He's here to equilibrate the world with his scroll powers. Zoom in, zoom out. Volume up, volume down. Everything is possible, with, THE. DOUBLE. SCROLL. WHEEL.
What's the second mouse wheel for?
I'm curious about that too
EDIT: nevermind, another post below has the answer: it's a programmable wheel
Meanwhile a good Xbox controller will only last 100 hours
I've used my xbox 360 controller pretty much daily since 2008, mostly on my pc. Looks as good as new, but with some tiny stick drift since a couple of months back
csn you get stick drift repaired?
If you have a soldering iron and know how to use it, the repair costs less than 5 dollars with parts from China. It's not hard, I wrecked one board by getting it too hot while desoldering the old sensor. You live and learn.
Same!! Not daily, but at least 30-40 times a year for over a decade! Happy to find another 360 controller user. Those Xbox 360 controllers are fantastic.
Had to stop using them last year. I had the wireless adapter plugged into a windows 10 computer, and its drivers kept failing to be recognized after every restart. After maybe the hundred time, I gave up and bought a $20 USB knockoff which so far, feels the same!
Looks like my 12 year old MX518 looked like when I retired it for a G400s.
My MX518 is still sees daily use, just with a family member now. I think it's old enough to drink now (edit: not American lmao). The Logitech logo at the palm has been worn down to nothing but otherwise doesn't look too bad.
Yeah, the reason I stopped using mine was because the feet wore off and I felt like it was time to upgrade to the better laser of the G400s. Otherwise, they're the same mouse. Buttons in the same place, same shape. Different color, better laser and bigger feet.
I replaced mine with a G Pro Wireless. Similar enough shape that it was still comfortable to switch to but lightweight and no cable to snag. Wouldn't go back to having a cable, such a huge improvement.
Yeah, I can't stand wireless mice. But enjoy!
Somewhere around here I have the HP optical mouse that used to come with their desktops. It finally quit working and I had to replace it, and I had to do the math for how long I had been using it.
Twenty years.
Good choice buying the second for backup. As a console game pr I know nothing about mouses, but I would assume they don’t make this anymore after a decade.
They won’t make them and people will either be selling your old fave model new or (not really) lightly used for about $500 if it was at all popular. Always buy a backup once you’re in love
RIP my baby, hello, baby's brother, hello, my ragtime gal...
My Logitech G5 is like 18 years old and other than being dirty it has basically zero wear on it. Only thing that's falling apart is the braiding around the wire
Mine still works too, got it at BestBuy on clearance when they switched to the 2 side button G5. It just doesn't fit my hand well anymore.
I still have the same Microsoft Intellimouse that I got in 2000 when I went away to college. IIRC it was one of the first that used optical tracking vs ye old ball.
My parents bought a new mouse when I was a kid back in the early 2000s cause we had a crappy view sonic one that came with the pc. The new one was a Microsoft one and it didn’t work cause it needed xp and we had ME. Back to the viewsonic mouse it was for another 20 years until I bought them a Logitech wireless one on a pc I built for them a few years ago.
Wild how the cheap stuff works well for so many years!
Did your parents keep ME for 20 years??? I had it in my first PC and I seemed to be the only person on the planet who had no issues with it, but even so, I was done with it after about a year
Nah we upgraded after a few years. But ME was a struggle! Had so many crashes in Diablo 2 and EverQuest. Thats all that mattered to me.
I'd probably still be using my CeBIT-branded IntelliMouse Explorer if it hadn't been jostled by too many backpack rides. It was just plain good.
I bought a Kinesis Advantage in 2011. I only just recently replaced it with the Kinesis Advantage 360 Pro. The key caps could use a replacement, but besides that it's in good condition.
The left one looks great. Usually we don't think of computer peripherals as gaining a patina, but it kind of works here. Good call on buying a spare, though!
I wish my mouse would last 11 years. The scroll wheel is vital for me and I wear them down after 2-3.
What brand are these mice? Never seen them before.
Looks to be a Speedlink Prime Z-DW
I think you linked to something else
https://www.speedlink.com/en/PRIME-Z-DW-Gaming-Mouse-red/SL-6390-RD
oh shit lmao thanks for pointing that out, i edited my comment.
Looks like it's Speedlink.