Useless 31

The packaging is a thick transparent plastic box. Virtually indestructible, but by severing the adhesive seal still easy to open. For subsequent safe transport in principle well suited. For everyday carrying around a cloth bag with drawstring is beige supplies, as well as the necessary AA battery. Basically positive.

The mouse has itself a solid aluminum foot with sliding surfaces made of plastic. All structures are also stable from acting Plasik, yielding is nothing there. The palm rest is adjustable, however I felt the release mechanism as a little stiff, on the other hand one imagines that once and after that it remains as it is (unless multiple users are constantly changing the setting). Unfortunately, I have not found a position where I could really easily found the palm rest.
A thumb rest I had never previously, but at least the like.

The standard keys (left, right, middle button with scroll wheel, page forward, page back) to work right from the start, as soon as the driver has been installed.
The modifier keys (Focus, Motion, Zoom wheel, scroll wheel tilting and Center button), yet require the MadCatz software. This is included on any media, but must be downloaded. After all, without any registration and of course always up to date. This software is actually absolutely self-explanatory, so who has problems on a computer has gundsätzlich formidable difficulties.

Among the unpleasant problems:
The center button (the front of the scroll with the arrow on it) does have stylish "Squirrel", but if I do not hurry a cornea grows, the scrolling is very fast painful.

I've found no hand position in which I was growing'll all keys simultaneously without problems. Some is always in the blind spot. For gaming as quickly drop a few features flat.

But the worst is the fact that they do not at any time 100% runs smoothly! Although it sets every movement to which I fully execute order on the table, but in the hardest case up to five seconds of delay were there doing. An absolute no-go! Even work was thus totally impossible to mention gaming entirely. A test with a second wired 3-button mouse ran simultaneously but perfectly smoothly, that the computer was not. Even plugging the supplied blue-tooth receiver on the front of the PC has been no significant improvement in the long run.

After I had initially been looking forward to the unusual design, promising broad functionality and the alleged high ergonomics is now only boundless disappointment left.
Put six! Especially at this price will have been my last MadCatz.

The MOUS9 was applied to a Win7 Professional x64bit with 3.2GHz Quad Core and 16GB RAM desktop PC with deactivated energy saving modes: System Insight.

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Addendum: In spite of frustration I decided to exploit my return period and the unit just will not be returned by return mail. Now, after nearly two weeks of testing my basic opinion has not changed. Even with the most current driver caused the MOUS9 occasionally massive delays. An increase in the process priority of the associated software MadCatz had also gives no remedy. That is not surprising, since drivers actually separately (and high-priority) are processed, an attempt it was me but still value.

The MadCatz software enables battery indicator, which now (after less than 14 days) of 100% (allegedly ~ 1 year) to 91% (supposedly ~ 320 days) has fallen. I very much hope that this is an erroneous estimation, otherwise only a battery life of about six months would result (assuming linear consumption 2 weeks = 9%, representing 22 weeks = 99%). And I had always operated the On / Off switch on the mouse bottom, when the PC was shut down and worked only a few hours a day with it.

Ergonomics I feel still not as exorbitant exceptional. After repeated trial and error, I was able to find a setting of the palm rest, which was halfway pleasant. The problem with keys in the blind spot has not really solved and the scrolling was uncomfortable when I arrived at the Center button again. The fact that the middle mouse button also significantly heavier than normal as any other keys, then acts almost beside the point.

The fact that the basic function of a mouse (ie, the cursor movement at the same time each tracked) is not satisfied costs, still all the stars.