Even If you thought that the logitech mx518 was the best
mouse possible when you bought it back in the mid-2000s and it's been working
perfectly for you ever since fact is the industry has moved on.
But what if your old favorite to get a spec upgrade without
any of the things you love about it getting messed with ,well Logitech has done
just that.
* Introducing the Logitech G mx518 legendary familiar
feel whole new deal.
Let's start with the most obvious difference to the absolute
horror of some mx518 diehards the finish on the key plate has been changed from
the much-beloved dented helmet look to a gradient metal flake finish that the
company is calling “ nightfall “.
It is a less radical design than the original but I think we
can all agree that it still manages to look more special than your average
office mouse , then besides the key plate there are a couple of less obvious
aesthetic changes where the buttons used to have printed on red labels they now
have etched black on black labels and in place of the old five year old artwork
on the fridge Logitech logo is the bold Logitech G logo referring to the
company's dedicated gaming brand which they relaunched in 2013.
Now feel wise the two mice have the exact same right-handed
oval shape with depressions on each side for the thumb and fingers to rest in
resulting in a ,for me anyway very comfortable high endurance Mouse that's easy
to lift up especially the legendary which is five grams lighter than its
predecessor with fewer larger Mouse skates and most notably a soft touch
rubberized wrapping on the side for extra friction.
In my opinion it also gives it a more premium look actually,
but this is not just a touched up reissue of an early 2000s Mouse . once we get
under the hood all the vital stats have been updated to Logitech's latest and
greatest hardware starting with their hero optical sensor this sensor is
Logitech's baby , it boasts high enough performance to warrant upgrading the
already stellar 3360 sensor in the g502 and high enough efficiency to squeeze
250 hours of battery life out of a single double-a in the wireless-g 305.
The easiest way to appreciate this upgrade though is look
back at the capabilities of the original, when the mx518 first dropped in 2005
it used a form factor that was already in use by a handful of its predecessors
including the NX 500 and the 510 ,but what made the 518 special what made it V
Mouse for gamers was not only its higher 1600 dpi resolution but these buttons ..↓↓
which were actually used for page up and page down on its ancestors, instead on
the 518 they were repurposed to allow players to step the dpi up and down in
real time ,a totally new feature that other popular mice like the microsoft
intellimouse and Razer Diamondback could not do, by default 3 dpi settings were
mapped 400 800 and 1600 but you could adjust these in software in 50 dpi
increments and today the new one actually works much the same except it comes
with a 4 3200 dpi default mapping as well as the ability to add a fifth mapping
in software of up to 16,000 dpi .
You can also use this button to quickly revert back to a
default dpi of your choice which is actually a new function that used to be an
alt tab kind of shortcut, the good news though is that if you want your legendary
to work the same way as the old one in true 2019 fashion every button on the
mouse is remappable even with macros.
The original mx518 was also better than its predecessors
when it came to pointer acceleration particularly negative acceleration ,for
those who need a refresher normal acceleration makes your mouse cursor move in
a nonlinear way in other words moving your mouse 10 centimeters across your
desk quickly will cause the cursor to move really far while moving at 10 centimeters
slowly will cause it to barely move at all.
Now for general desktop use acceleration was designed to
help you get to the edge of your screen without flying off your mouse pad all
the time, it's just that it's generally considered a bad thing for gamers
because it can be harder to train you're aiming muscle memory when your
crosshair is moving at different speeds from one movement to the next.
Negative acceleration is actually the opposite of that so
you move the mouse really fast and the cursor barely moves at all as for the
practical use case for that one that was more of a bug than a feature so what
made the mx518 so great then was that the threshold where negative acceleration
kicked in was much higher.
As for the legendary though it has no threshold there's
just zero mouse acceleration .. period ,and it also lacks another pitfall that
the original suffered from even though other popular gaming mice like the IME
3.0 did not despite being two years older that's something called angle
snapping also known as smoothing angle snapping is a feature that was supposed
to help users especially those with shaky hams or less computer experience move
the cursor in a straight line .
The idea was that if the sensor detected that you were kind
of trying to move in a perfectly straight line it would smooth out any
deviations from that path snapping your cursor back on course, again though this
really sucks in shooters where small deviations could be the difference between
a headshot and a wasted opportunity .
Now some mice at that time had software controls for their
angle snapping with the ability to toggle it off outright the mx518 it did not
so in summary the old one had angle snapping at all times the legendary
has angle snapping at no times ever.
I always loved the comfortable ergonomic shape of this
lineup from logitech and I give zero cares about the color
because my hand on it anyway and I think the soft touch sides are a huge
improvement.
So if you were to ask me should I buy the mx518 legendary
I'd probably be like oh hell yeah brother gaming was way better back then we
didn't have your microtransactions your DLC always-on DRM bla..bla..bla .so
yeah if you loved the old one then yes you're gonna love this one
too go for it, it's great at high speeds it tracks accurately even when we
tried to go our very fastest it's comfortable and it's still just 60 bucks
which when you factor in inflation is actually cheaper than the originals $50
price tag in 2005 that is a heck of a deal for a well built mouse with a
flagship sensor in it .
However if I were to take a step back and look at it
objectively I'd say that going back to our bit at the beginning of this article
about progress and all that modern mice like the g502 hero for just $10
more they're not so bad either so if unlike me you cut your gaming teeth on
more up-to-date designs you actually might find the more traditional spoon grip
the lack of RGB or even indicator LEDs and the fairly basic button layout
limiting to your gameplay .
Purchase link ⇒ http://bit.ly/Logitech-MX518-LEGENDARY
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