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Logitech's G300 9-button gaming mouse is for the win, $40

By | August 18, 2011, 12:25pm PDT

Summary: Up your APM with Logitech’s G300 gaming mouse. It has 9-programmable buttons that you can save key combos for up to 3 games or players on its on-board memory, so you can game the way you like.

Getting tired of hitting the wrong keystroke bindings when you play World of Warcraft? Logitech’s G300 9-button ambidextrous gaming mouse could help you slay Deathwing.

The G300 comes with software where you can map your key combos to each of the nine buttons, so you can focus on upping your kill/death ratio rather than just playing your keyboard like a piano. Its on-board memory even lets you save the button configurations for up to three different games or players, and assign a different color to each profile so you can see right away which profile is active (see below). So you can plug this USB mouse into any machine and game with your configurations right away.

With a speedy one-millisecond report rate, and 2500 DPI optical sensor, this wired mouse “tracks slow or fast movements on a wide variety of surfaces, so you get exactly the action you want from every incremental hand movement,” according to its press release. The central DPI shift button will also let you switch up the mouse’s sensitivity for when you need to line up that perfect head-shot. Its sculpted shape for either hand should make your MMO and FPS marathon more comfortable.

This Logitech G300 will be hitting stores in Europe and North America in September, for $39.99.

[Source: BusinessWire, Logitech Blog]

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Gloria Sin is a freelance journalist based in New York City.

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Gloria Sin is a New York-based freelance journalist who writes about the tech toys that you can't live without for ZDNet. She has little patience for poorly designed user experiences, and is not afraid of opening the guts of her own machines for repair or hacking her gadgets for new uses.

She has written for FastCompany.com, Popular Science, Olympic News Service; she currently covers the startup scene in the Tri-State area for NYConvergence.com.

Prior to ZDNet, Gloria was the online editor for Dance International, and dabbled in web design and social media consulting. When she is offline, you will find her at an ice rink living out her figure skating dreams. Follow her on Twitter.

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The price is right! Not as modular as the G9X, but then, most people probably don't need to change weights or grips happy Still think the G9X is cooler-looking though

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