I need a mouse with an INDESTRUCTIBLE scroll wheel.

March 10, 2018 5:30 PM

My Razer Naga Epic Chroma is great for most of my purposes, but I've worn through the mouse wheels on two of them in the last 6 months (home and work setups). I use the mouse wheel for a lot, and when it breaks and fails for center clicks it's really frustrating. Please recommend me a better mouse!

Price is not a factor. I prefer larger mice to smaller ones, and mice with extra buttons // gaming features are preferred (I game a lot at home, and the Naga specifically has been good to me sans the scrollwheel issues - having a numpad on the thumb has been surprisingly useful even in non-gaming contexts occasionally), but if there's a good, rock-solid non-gaming mouse you use, let me know.

posted by isauteikisa to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

I use the Logitech Wireless Performance Mouse MX, which oddly enough can be found on the Canadian Logitech site, but redirects to a support page on the US site. It can be found on Amazon and is well reviewed there.

It has extra buttons (not as many as the Epic Chrome I'm afraid) and has worked faithfully for the past years.
posted by vert canard at 5:42 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

I'm using a 1.1 gen Logitech MX Revolution (2006) right now and a 1st gen Performance MX (2009) at work (which was a slightly less-fiddly/expensive successor to the original MX Revolution, the major change was ruggedizing the mousewheel at the expense of a super fancy one - the mousewheel on the 1.0 gen was super duper fancy).

Goodly number of fully software-customizable buttons. Very good placements of all for my size/shaped hands (~3" middle finger, ~4" palm). The (single) thumb button on the Performance MX kicks all kinds of butt for me.

Charge is still great on the MX Rev, full charge lasts for 2 days of 12-hour use. Performance MX is hybrid wired/wireless (wire only for charging) so no idea.

The lasers on both are great. The Performance will work flawlessly on glass.

Love both mice dearly (can you tell?), mousewheel lots and it's still aces on both. Caveat, the MX Revolution was a Logitech replacement for an earlier 1.0 gen MX where the mousewheel crapped out quickly.

Can't vouch for the current production run of the Performance MX, but the price (unadjusted for inflation) has decreased some since I bought mine. I think it used to be in the $130-150 range?

Have not tried one, but apparently the MX Master (2015) is the successor to the Performance MX. Looks a little bit bigger than the previous flagship productivity mice. After reading a review, I'm starting to wonder if I should pick one up... but both of my mice are more than perfectly adequate...
posted by porpoise at 7:48 PM on March 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

I've used a few Logitech MX and M series mice for work (currently the M705), and I just program the 'forward' thumb button as the middle button using their software. The M705 also has a discrete hardware button to toggle between free scroll and detent scroll, so you're not mashing the scroll wheel itself to change modes.
posted by a halcyon day at 10:48 AM on March 12, 2018