Customer Reviews

Logitech iFeel MouseMan

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After using Microsoft's Intellimouse Optical this mouse was a big change for me. I really like it. I really like the whole vibrating thing when you move around on the desktop or on webpages. I only got the mouse for my home computer so when I'm at work I miss the "feel" of my desktop/webpages. You can change the different "feels" of the desktops. You can make the mouse give you a "rubbery" kinda feel when you "roll over" something or like a "metallic" kind of feel. You can make your own "feel" to the desktop. This is such a neat product! It even has the Logitech sign (near the bottom of the mouse, where your palm would go) glow in blue!!! so not only does the greenish/bluish mouse look great, it has a niffty blue glow to it along with the optical red glow from the bottom. Looks really neat when the lights are off. As much as I like the product I only gave it 4 stars because I was used to having 2 buttons on the side (Microsoft Intelliopitcal has 2 buttons on the side of the side) The Logitech mouse only has one button on the side so if your like me and you like to make those buttons into your back and forward buttons on the web you could only have one back or forward. I know this mouse can be used for games so that you can "feel" the weapons you use, but they don't have many games that support the software the mouse uses. I can tell they are trying to make more patches and things like that for games, but so far I havent had much luck with Tribes 2 (supposedly it should already work but it doesn't) and I haven't tried Black & White yet, but the demo on their webpage seems great!!! Also, another thing, since there is one "missing" button on the mouse (side button) you might have a prob with like your first person shooting games, if you like to assign that second button for somthing.

I thought this was a great product, might need a few tuning up, but its a great mouse! and it looks really great too!! I would recommend it to people!!!

Having owned the Microsoft [...]mouse, and sent it back because it was awful, I moved on to the Logitech one. It looks good, it feels great, has a lovely blue light on it, works well, and does everything it is supposed to. The drivers are good, it's all good! The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because I think that most people will find the ifeel technology gets rather old rather quickly and it will soon be switched off. So I would probably save [...]and get the same mouse with the ifeel bit taken out. Either way, a great mouse, makes the similarly prices Microsoft one look like a cheap and nasty piece of plastic by comparison.

My only reservation is that this mouse is USB only with no PS2 adapter. So I am now going to have to buy some kind of USB hub as I have run out of USB ports. I would have liked a PS2 option because I consider using a USB port for things like mice and keyboards to be a bit of a waste, especially since I now have a PS2 port sitting empty.

Even without the tactile "Immersion Desktop" technology this is an excellent, reasonably priced mouse. Since it is optical it has no moving parts and I have high hopes of it lasting longer than my mechnical mice have in the past in my somewhat dusty, mouse-killing work environment.

The "Immersion Desktop" stuff is very cool and works great. The tool comes with a number of pre-configured tactile "themes" that you can use or edit as you see fit. Each "theme" (examples: metallic, rubbery, spongy, crisp) carries definitions for how the mouse should feel when dragging windows, resizing windows, rolling over a hyperlink, rolling over a checkbox, etc. I have chosen "metallic" as my favorite.

Some of the sensations are really neat. There is one that feels like squeegeeing a window - quick remarkable that the mouse can do that.

I'm giving the product 4 stars instead of 5 for several reasons. First, the optical mouse didn't like my mousepad, so I am using a pad of paper instead for the moment. Second, the software controlling cursor movement seems to get "confused" momentarily sometimes and the cursor will flutter for a moment - moving the mouse always fixes this. Finally, setup and install was a major pain for me under Windows 2000. By all indications it should have been a simple install and go, but I ended up spending an hour plugging and unplugging the mouse under the desk, installing, reinstalling, rebooting, etc. I finally went to their website and had to download a new driver which worked flawlessly.