A few days ago I made myself a present, in the form of a Logitech S510 wireless keyboard and mouse. I do not mean to criticize this product in particular, which I have no doubt fits well with many peoples' needs, and is competitive with other makes and models available.
For my AutoCad work however, it just didn't cut it. First off, the center button on the mouse was assigned differently, and would not do the usual panning function in autoCad. This can be easily reconfigured though, to work "alomst" normally. Almost - because it also has stupid sideways panning buttons attached to it, which get in my way and end up making the normal pan function cumbersome and error prone. Worse yet, the mouse pointer movement is impossible to control precisely. I tried all sorts of settings, different speeds, with and without acceleration, different mousing surfaces - it almost acts as if it doesn't "want" to land on the exact spot you are trying to pick, and it will either go not quite far enough, or overshoot - it is extremely frustrating. Just as bad, the "click" feature (yes, the plain old vanilla mouse click) is unreliable. Sometimes you click and nothing happens at all. Again, and again and again. Other times it acts as though you have maintained the button, and tries to drag as soon as you want to move away. I don't need to tell anyone here how much I appreciate this type of behavior when I'm trying to work on a drawing. It is totally nerve-wracking, when working on a drawing have to be fighting with the mouse just to get it to click on something.
Finally, the keyboard has its oddities - sometimes stops typing alltogether, adds double carriage returns when I'm expecting single, has too many of its own "hot keys" built in,getting in your way etc. But overall the comfort of the keyboard is OK, and it would be possible to get used to its strangeness - unlike the mouse, which simply doesn't work.
Is my experience shared by others here? I am honestly surprised - I really expected the wireless mouse to work exactly like a wired one, and was not expecting any wierdness at all. How many are using wireless systems out there? Does anyone think I'm doing something wrong? (the soiftware is correctly installed, the batteries are all fresh, and the emmitter/receptor is only a few inches from the two devices).
GF