Logitech G700

[frustratedrocka]

I've had this mouse for about a year now, and I figured I'd share my thoughts on it. As I understand it, everything here should also apply to the 700s.

 

PROS:

• Perfectly shaped for my hand - I have average sized hands and use a palm grip. 
• Build quality feels excellent.
• Nice amount of heft to it, but not so heavy that it's hard to move. 
• Buttons are in good locations - I map the four side buttons to 1-4 and leave the top buttons as DPI switchers for my standard gaming profile and adjust as needed. I mostly play shooters and RPGs, so it's nice to have a more precise means of weapon switching or power activation right there on the mouse.

CONS:

• The software is a wreck. It used to be fine, but after a semi-recent update it has become somewhat unintuitive and rather glitchy. Occasionally I'll step away from the computer for a while and come back to find that the DPI has maxed itself out, forcing me to quit and relaunch the software. This is annoying enough in Windows, but I use this mouse on a macbook pro running bootcamp, which in turn means that I occasionally have to reboot my system twice in a row when this problem comes up. It's particularly frequent when using the game-detection profile selection. 
• Cable is too stiff, making the mouse potentially difficult to move depending on angles when plugged in.
• Battery doesn't last all that long.

As comfortable as this mouse is, I can't give it an unqualified recommendation because of the software problems. That being said, it's not enough of a hassle that I'm willing to spend another 70 bucks to get another mouse, and if the occasional glitch doesn't bother you this one is worth checking out.

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[MariusJS]

I have the mouse aswell, and I have no problems with the software, love the update

[Ertman]

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This is annoying enough in Windows, but I use this mouse on a macbook pro running bootcamp, which in turn means that I occasionally have to reboot my system twice in a row when this problem comes up.

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Why do you have to reboot twice? You can choose the boot camp partition at startup. If windows is your primary OS, you could also make it the default startup disk (partition).

[frustratedrocka]

Why do you have to reboot twice? You can choose the boot camp partition at startup. If windows is your primary OS, you could also make it the default startup disk (partition).

I have to shut down OSX, reboot into Windows, open up the software to reset the mouse, then shut down Windows and boot back into OSX.

[AndyCapets]

The software is waaaaay better than the one I had when I got the mouse a year ago (don't know if someone can still remember the one I'm talking about, it was a nightmare), it's even quite good.

[adiobe]

I also love the mouse, but indeed, the software on mac is CRAP  (Forward and Previous as keybinding doesn't work for example). But on PC it's great. 

[sleezeep]

I have this mouse as well love the hardware, but OP is right the software went bad in one of the most recent updates. Constantly forgets keybindings I have set. When waking the computer up the software doesn't and tells you to power on your mouse. Even when it is running it keeps forgetting keybindings, and DPI settings. This is also the same with my G710+ keyboard, exiting and restarting the software fixes the problem for me, until the pc goes to sleep or a game causes it to forget everything. Love Logitech stuff because it is well built and reliable, however this g-series software needs some love.

Edit: I am running win7 home 64bit