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So they took one of the best ambidextrous mice and made it right handed? Thanks! But seriously, I know left handers are only 10% of the population, but I'm sic

So they took one of the best ambidextrous mice and made it right handed? Thanks! But seriously, I know left handers are only 10% of the population, but I'm sick of being left behind, no pun intended. I've been using the Razer Deathadder for years and it's served me well. Well, the ergonomics for that matter anyway. Some of the choices with the structure are questionable at best. On the inside the mouse is split into two circuit boards and soldered with the cheapest ribbon cable available. The shaft on the scroll wheel is made out of acrylic and while it lets light through for the underlighting pretty well, it's complete crap when durability comes into play. I admittedly get a little heated when playing, but I swear that thing will break just by looking at it. Additionally the switches on the mouse are acceptable at best. After about a year the switches wear out and become squishy. At this point I'm possibly looking at re-engineering the internals. I have to buy one nearly every year just because they wear out.

nlawalker 8y ago
I think only the very first version of the IntelliMouse was ambidextrous, all the rest were right handed, including the Explorer 3.0 that this appears to be based off of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliMouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliMouse
endemic 8y ago
Came to complain about the same thing. I'm not convinced the slight ergonomics on the mouse justifies making it terrible for left-handed use. I must be using the v2 IntelliMouse, as mine (which I've had for years) is ambidextrous.
def_true_false 8y ago
While it's pretty durable, the switches on the WMO are barely usable.
codycraven 8y ago
I'm left handed in everything I do. However I chose to use mice right handed and it's a decision I will never regret. Keyboard hotkeys are just made to be driven with the left hand while the right hand is free to use a mouse. It would take far too much customization (which not all applications even support) to rebind everything up support left hand mouse usage.
- theandrewbailey 8y ago
  I'm sorta left handed (writing, eating), but mouse right handed, because that's the way every computer was set up when I was growing up. When I got into RTS games, my friends would occasionally note how much of a hotkey whore I was. On games where it was tracked, my hotkey usage blew everyone else's out of the water!
- pathartl 8y ago
  I blame my dad as he was also left handed and moused left handed. I'm currently trying to figure out how to build my own keyboard and remove space around the arrow keys to solve the keyboard issue. I'm at the point where hotkeying isn't a huge issue. The only one that really bothers me is copy paste, but I'm slowly learning to use shift + insert, ctrl + insert, and shift + delete

nlawalker 8y ago

I think only the very first version of the IntelliMouse was ambidextrous, all the rest were right handed, including the Explorer 3.0 that this appears to be based off of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliMouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliMouse

endemic 8y ago

Came to complain about the same thing. I'm not convinced the slight ergonomics on the mouse justifies making it terrible for left-handed use. I must be using the v2 IntelliMouse, as mine (which I've had for years) is ambidextrous.

def_true_false 8y ago

While it's pretty durable, the switches on the WMO are barely usable.

codycraven 8y ago

I'm left handed in everything I do. However I chose to use mice right handed and it's a decision I will never regret. Keyboard hotkeys are just made to be driven with the left hand while the right hand is free to use a mouse. It would take far too much customization (which not all applications even support) to rebind everything up support left hand mouse usage.

theandrewbailey 8y ago
I'm sorta left handed (writing, eating), but mouse right handed, because that's the way every computer was set up when I was growing up. When I got into RTS games, my friends would occasionally note how much of a hotkey whore I was. On games where it was tracked, my hotkey usage blew everyone else's out of the water!
pathartl 8y ago
I blame my dad as he was also left handed and moused left handed. I'm currently trying to figure out how to build my own keyboard and remove space around the arrow keys to solve the keyboard issue. I'm at the point where hotkeying isn't a huge issue. The only one that really bothers me is copy paste, but I'm slowly learning to use shift + insert, ctrl + insert, and shift + delete