Product Description
Fast.
Durable. Gaming Mouse. Cut right to the chase with the Microsoft
SideWinderTM X5 Mouse another addition to Microsoft¿s award-winning line
of SideWinder gaming products. This fast, durable mouse delivers
super-precise action with advanced features like vertical side buttons,
200 to 2000 dpi on-the-fl y laser tracking, macros, 5 assignable
buttons, and more.
Product
Details
- Color: Black
- Brand: Microsoft
- Model:
ARB-00001
- Platforms: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home
Edition, Windows 2000
- Format: CD
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.83" h x 8.35" w x 8.35" l, .93 pounds
Features
- 2000
DPI Laser Tracking Engine - For fast action
- Built to Last -
Main button life: Rated to 10,000,000 clicks
- On-the-Fly DPI
Switching - Instantly switch sensitivity between high (2000), medium
(800), and low (400) with one click.
- Five Programmable Main
Buttons - Customize your main gaming buttons to your preference.
- Macros
- Create and assign macros out-of-game using included software.
Editorial
Reviews
From
the Manufacturer
Cut right to the chase with the Microsoft
SideWinder X5 Mouse--another addition to Microsoft's award-winning line
of SideWinder gaming products. This fast, durable mouse delivers
super-precise action with advanced features like vertical side buttons,
200 to 2000 dpi on-the-fly laser tracking, macros, 5 assignable buttons,
and more.
Features:
 | |  | |  | |
| Quick Launch Button
One-touch access
to Microsoft PC Gaming features. | | Vertical Side Buttons
Top/bottom design makes
locating side buttons easier. | | On-the-Fly
DPI Switching
Instantly switch sensitivity between high, medium,
and low with one click. | |
Additional Features:
- 2000 DPI
Laser Tracking Engine: For fast action.
- Built to Last: Main
button life rated to 10,000,000 clicks.
- Engineered for
Speed: Right-handed shape designed for quick, balanced, precision
gaming action.
- Quick Turn: Check your perimeter with the
click of a button.
- Wide Rubber Scroll Wheel: With
detent clicking action.
- Five Programmable Main Buttons:
Customize your main gaming buttons to your preference.
- Macros:
Create and assign macros out-of-game using included software.
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System Requirements:
- Windows
Vista/Windows XP
- 100 MB
- Powered USB port
- CD
drive
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Customer Reviews
Perfect for big hands
I have very big hands so I
was happy to read other reviews on how huge this mouse is. It fits like a
glove for me and couldnt get any better. Perfect button placement and
very high quality design. I thought this was made of cheap plastic but
it is very well designed and crafted. My only problem Ihave to get used
to is how sensitive the buttons are. That i my fault though for using a
cheap dell mouse that came with the computer. If you have at least
medium sized hands this will be great for you.
Decent entry level gaming mouse, but better mice out
there for serious use
The Sidewinder X5 appears to
be a somewhat cheaper Sidewinder version with a few less features to
lower the price. If you need a cheap gaming mouse, this may be one to
look at. If like me, you not only do gaming at your computer, but
extensive internet browsing and other activities, you may want to look
at some other mice. The biggest issue for me with this mouse was that
the size and length of it was not at all comfortable and made the button
placement difficult for my hands...having about normal-sized hands for a
woman. In particular the two buttons on the side were regularly
slightly in front of my thumb, so I had to adjust my hand and/or reach
to use them. Not good, and the type of thing that causes tendinitis or
RSI over time.
The mouse itself has a very cheap, plastic feel to
it. Having previously used the very nice Logitech G9 Mouse I found it
hard to go back to scrolling that was jerky and required a lot of
tweaking to work anything near to acceptable. The turbo scroll on the
Logitech mice is just so much more pleasant to work with when you are at
the computer for hours at a time. I'm also never happy to get a mouse
with buttons that I can't customize. In this case, there is a button on
the top that might be nice to use as a quick-launch button, but it only
opens up Intellitype in XP, (Games in Vista) you have no option to
customize the action for it.
A
Good Gaming Mouse - Works With OS X
I went from a wireless
six-button mouse to this wired gaming mouse, and I have to say the
difference is significant. Where my wireless would do weird things like
not recognizing clicks until I moved the mouse, and dropping out every
once in a while, this wired mouse with increased resolution never does
either of those things. It's incredibly responsive, and makes me glad I
decided I could "live with" having a cord on my mouse.
The
buttons are handy, and easy to reach. The feel is a little more blocky
than I'm used to, but it's still comfortable. The mouse just feels like
it's tracking far better than any I've used in a long time-- There's no
"jumpy" feel to it in lower DPI settings, and less of one in the high
setting than on my wireless mouse. It's kind of cool that I can switch
DPI on the fly with a button.
In games, I noticed my response
time was better, especially for circle-strafing and mouse-looking. While
I'm not a huge FPS gamer, I did get some better control with this mouse
in Team Fortress 2, and I felt a HUGE improvement in the way the mouse
felt for Oblivion. Clicking on small icons and buttons on the in-game
GUI isn't as tedious with the Sidewinder X5.
I use it in both OS X
and Windows XP. Despite what the package says, the mouse does, indeed,
come with drivers and control panels for OS X (not that OS X needs
drivers, but the control panels are handy to assign buttons).
There's
one button that I find sort of stupid and useless on this mouse. It's
near the back (under your palm, when the mouse is being used) and its
purpose varies depending on what OS you're using. It's not reassignable,
either. It does what it does, and that is all. In Windows XP, all it
does is launch the Intellimouse software; That's the mouse control
panel, which you can normally reach two other ways (click the
desktop/Start menu icon, or go to Control Panel). That's all it does. I
hardly see why a button was needed for this function. In OS X, the
button just pops your pointer up to the top left corner of the screen,
and again, you can't reassign this button. It's just sort of a waste of
moving parts, if you ask me.
However, stupid button aside, I dig
this mouse. I think I may stick with it, despite losing wireless freedom
compared to my old mouse. This mouse just works better!
Oh, I
should mention that this mouse has two red lights on the bottom, near
the back, and one on top. They remain on as long as your computer is
sending power to the mouse, and this might be annoying for some people
who don't want their mouse to be all lit up. It doesn't bother me much,
but it is curious that Microsoft would put bright red lights on the
mouse when the laser tracking emits light that is invisible to the human
eye. These lights aren't part of the tracking hardware: They're just
decoration. I guess it's supposed to look cool or something. I just
think it's sort of a waste of power.
A good mouse, but not for
the office or conservative desktop. Definitely a step up for gamers,
though.
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