EVERYONE'S Favorite Gaming Mouse is BACK! - Logitech MX 518 Review #Helpful Post

 it ain't broke don't fix it is a

sentiment that I think a lot of tech

enthusiasts share I mean did anybody ask

for the Metro UI Start menu in Windows 8

the thing about tech though is that no

matter how much you love it it gets

outdated so even if you thought that the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

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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 come on guys 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 uh-uh

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 5:18 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 which is cool I guess if

you want to mess with your roommates or

something 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

Silvan as someone whose first high

performance mouse and by high

performance I mean one that cost more

than ten bucks at the local radioshack

was actually a Logitech MX duo it's kind

of hard for me to look at this

objectively

everything about it kind of feels like

home I always loved the comfortable

ergonomic shape of this lineup from

Logitech 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

data 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

though South paws need not apply

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 video 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

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