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Review: Microsoft Sidewinder X3 gaming mouse

Thumb simple buttons are inconveniently placed

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Just a short review for this one. The range Sidewinder mouse is the trademark of Microsoft games, and they have actually done a pretty good job with both the X5 and X8, the last day for this sport the best wireless setup there. The X3 is their little brother, and it shows in the design imagination. The other was crazy Sidewinders buttons were large and angular, and pretty much screamed "Mouse Freak" to all those who have seen one on your desk. But it was good because they worked well.The X3 also works well as can be expected, but the fact is $ 40, you can get a better mouse.

The shape of the mouse is very comfortable. He has good size and the average curve of comfort. There is no shelf for your fingers on the outside but there is a small (but effective) one for the thumb, whatever side you took. DPI buttons are off the road, but quickly accessible.

The thumb buttons, however, are just too far down the mouse.This is a design flaw very clear: the plateau of the thumb indicates where your thumb should sit down when you hold the mouse button is half an inch closer to the tip of the mouse. It's just physically impossible to rest your thumb on the shelf and still be able to reach the button, you need to lift the heel of your hand and reach forward, and that will do that? And of course, since it is an ambidextrous mouse, a button is all going to lose around your ring finger, which can not do much with it.