Is the Logitech MX 400 mouse worth it for gaming?
Anyways I noticed that the new mouse, which has a laser, unlike the intellimouse which was optical, is a lot faster moving/more sensitive and is taking a while to get used to. Are optical or laser mice better for gaming?
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I have a Logitech Mx1000 laser mouse and i love it, It is very accurate, I used to play CS, but mostly play wow with it, i wouldnt trade it for any other mouse, it also has a recharge station.
Optical and Laser are NOT the same, check it out.
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Optical mice
An optical mouse uses a light-emitting diode and photodiodes to detect movement relative to the underlying surface, rather than moving some of its parts — as in a mechanical mouse.
Early optical mice, circa 1980, came in two different varieties:
Some, such as those invented by Steve Kirsch[11][12] of Mouse Systems Corporation, used an infrared LED and a four-quadrant infrared sensor to detect grid lines printed with infrared absorbing ink on a special metallic surface. Predictive algorithms in the CPU of the mouse calculated the speed and direction over the grid.
Others, invented by Richard F. Lyon and sold by Xerox, used a 16-pixel visible-light image sensor with integrated motion detection on the same chip[13] and tracked the motion of light dots in a dark field of a printed paper or similar mouse pad.[14]
These two mouse types had very different behaviors, as the Kirsch mouse used an x-y coordinate system embedded in the pad, and would not work correctly when rotated, while the Lyon mouse used the x-y coordinate system of the mouse body, as mechanical mice do.
Laser mice
As early as 1998, Sun Microsystems provided a laser mouse with their Sun SPARCstation servers and workstations.[16] However, laser mice did not enter the mainstream market until 2004, when Logitech, in partnership with Agilent Technologies, introduced the laser mouse with its MX 1000 model. This mouse uses a small infrared laser instead of an LED, which increases the resolution of the image taken by the mouse. This leads to around 20× more surface tracking power to the surface features used for navigation compared to conventional optical mice, via interference effects.[17] While the implementation of a laser does slightly increase sensitivity and resolution, the main advantage comes form power usage. A laser mouse uses considerably less energy than an LED mouse.[citation needed]
Logitech engineers designed their laser mouse — as a wireless mouse — to save as much power as possible. In order to do this, the mouse blinks the laser when in standby-mode (Each mouse has a different standby time). This function also increases the laser life. Laser mice designed specifically for gamers, such as the Logitech G5 or the Razer Copperhead, appeared later and lack this feature, in an attempt to reduce latency and to improve responsiveness
optical and laser are the same thing.
the higher the DPI, the better for gaming the mouse is.
Laser mice are different...laser mice use infrared opposed to simple visible light. Infrared moves faster, and therefore is more sensitive...you can turn the speed down with windows in the control panel if youd like.
Optical and Laser are not the same thing!
Lasers are preferred for gaming because they have higher resolution rates, normally around 2000 dpi.
Here's a good objective article and test on the workings and performance of the Logitech G5 Laser Mouse, much of the info will correlate to your mouse. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=...
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