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I ordered a Logitech Cordless Desktop MX Duo for my original Media Center Edition PC build based on the suggestions I got here. Unfortunately, the included MX700 mouse would studder almost constantly unless you slammed it on the table every few minutes. I had to switch back to a corded mouse for my HDTV HTPC! Eventually the keyboard from the set stopped working altogether so I just called Logitech for an RMA.
Rather than issuing an RMA, they just sent me a "replacement". In the box, I found a retail-boxed brand new Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3000. The MX600 laser mouse inside the kit looks nice, but it's sort of a downgrade because it has no charging cradle. Also, I'm not a fan of the office-style keyboard layout.
Can the MX600 charge with my MX700 cradle? I don't want to open the box to find out if I am going to end up selling/trading it as new. The set normally sells for $100, $80 on Newegg so I'm hoping to get a MX1000 out of it. If I sell or trade it, I'm planning on using a MS Media Center wireless keyboard (IR... Blech!) to use with a MX1000 laser mouse + Bluetooth. Is Bluetooth good enough for using a mouse for gaming from the couch? I don't want to use Logitech's proprietary pseudo-Bluetooth receiver because I experienced all the "necessary" bloat with a Logitech DiNovo set in another MCE PC I built for a customer (Yeah, it's BT-compatible but still). I have a wicked-cool lift-top cocktail table that can bring the whole mouse/kb/steering wheel/Steel Battalion cockpit controller to my lap on the couch but I feel that it may be too far for my cheap-o $5 BT adapter and have no way to test.
So, MX1000 or go with what I've got?
Rather than issuing an RMA, they just sent me a "replacement". In the box, I found a retail-boxed brand new Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3000. The MX600 laser mouse inside the kit looks nice, but it's sort of a downgrade because it has no charging cradle. Also, I'm not a fan of the office-style keyboard layout.
Can the MX600 charge with my MX700 cradle? I don't want to open the box to find out if I am going to end up selling/trading it as new. The set normally sells for $100, $80 on Newegg so I'm hoping to get a MX1000 out of it. If I sell or trade it, I'm planning on using a MS Media Center wireless keyboard (IR... Blech!) to use with a MX1000 laser mouse + Bluetooth. Is Bluetooth good enough for using a mouse for gaming from the couch? I don't want to use Logitech's proprietary pseudo-Bluetooth receiver because I experienced all the "necessary" bloat with a Logitech DiNovo set in another MCE PC I built for a customer (Yeah, it's BT-compatible but still). I have a wicked-cool lift-top cocktail table that can bring the whole mouse/kb/steering wheel/Steel Battalion cockpit controller to my lap on the couch but I feel that it may be too far for my cheap-o $5 BT adapter and have no way to test.
So, MX1000 or go with what I've got?
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