Review on Logitech Lightspeed Wireless Adjustable Programmable by Kiril Mihailov ᠌

Name: Logitech Lightspeed Wireless Adjustable Programmable
Item: Logitech Lightspeed Wireless Adjustable Programmable
Rating: 3

July 17, 2023

There are pros and cons, think before buying.

Reactions to the jump from g102 to g502 are shared. Overall, I'm Pleased. The extra buttons I cared about most were included, but the awkward grip was the result of an odd design choice.
After a week of practice, I was able to hold the mouse so that none of the jutting out parts bothered my hand. The sniper button is inconveniently placed, beyond the thumb rest, on which it is just the most convenient to hold this finger, especially in terms of mouse balance, so I just had to move my hand back a little and give up access to it. So, I'm still confused on how to make maximum use of this mouse. In order to make using the mouse more pleasant, I fabricated a "prosthesis" out of a plastic I bought on AliExpress to cover up an awkward cutout in the case.

Pros

Extras that are both useful and easy to use. I tend to bind controls in games primarily to buttons and wheel tilts. I remapped G102 to G502 so there would be more shortcuts available. Extremely legible wheel placements.

Cons

The mouse's body has an incredibly inconvenient cutout in the bottom left corner. There's a somewhat sharp edge just where your palm rests on the mouse (between your wrist and thumb). The hand leaves a mark after using a mouse. Regularly, LMB and occasionally RMB are crushed under the weight of the finger, with the help of a makeshift "spring" constructed out of a piece of cardboard. Because the MCM button is so much more tightly spaced than the wheel's side buttons, the latter frequently activate by mistake. There appears to be no rationale for the extensive use of hard rubber on the body's outside. This rubber makes it harder to hold the g102 in one's palm compared to the standard plastic. When you take your fingers off the LMB, PKM, or the wheel, they rattle horribly, but you learn to live with it. The noise of the wheel turning is noticeable. The hand may tire of dragging this iron on the table after g102, but it is possible to adapt. I utilize the "sniper" button (under my thumb) in Discord's walkie-talkie mode. So that when you turn on the radio, you don't accidentally perform actions that you don't need right now (mouse keys 4 and 5 are not suitable, them everywhere, except for games, the functions "back" and "forward" are assigned), the challenge is to find such a key or key combination on a computer that would not be a hotkey in a browser or other program. In addition, the numbers 6, 7, or 8 are not pre-mapped to anything on the mouse. Find a happy medium; I've stopped at Num5 with the numpad disabled. You'll need to program the keyboard buttons (or other mouse buttons) into the mouse software so you can tilt the wheel when scrolling to the left and right of the game. Unfortunately, this scroll is cumbersome to use in most situations. It doesn't work in Adobe Acrobat, and it scrolls too abruptly and too far (and in the opposite way) in Excel and Photoshop; therefore, the standard method of horizontal scrolling while holding ctrl or shift is preferable. That textured rubber gets grimy fast and is a pain to keep clean.