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by tesseract 2374 days ago
I switched from a G700s to an Elecom XGM20DL due to the G700s's poor battery life and terrible software (the Logitech gaming mouse drivers, at least on Mac OS, are dramatically worse than the mainstream mouse drivers). Unfortunately the build quality is pretty average, not as nice as the G700s was and nowhere near the MX Master series. It also doesn't have a built-in battery charger.

I never liked the thumb button layout on the MX Master 1 and 2, but on the 3 it looks a lot better, so I might give one a try even though it doesn't have the index finger page up/down buttons.
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wlesieutre 2374 days ago
If you want better software you could give SteerMouse a try:

https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/download.php

$20 purchase, but the 30 day demo should be enough to see if it works for you. I don’t know whether it will recognize all of the G700s’s buttons.

I’m just using the trackpad on Mac now, but I used SteerMouse back in the day and it was much better than the official drivers.

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tesseract 2374 days ago
I'm actually using SteerMouse with the Elecom because it doesn't have first-party Mac drivers. I never did try it with the G700s - I was already through with that based on the battery life. But it may have helped. (I am guessing, though, that even if it could handle all the buttons it wouldn't support the DPI switching on the G700s.)
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wlesieutre 2374 days ago
Might be able to set the DPI switching stuff with its on device memory, set the rest of the buttons as generic mouse buttons, and then use it with SteerMouse.

Would require temporary use of the official software to set this up.

But if battery life was the problem it wouldn’t fix that. I use mine at my desk so I just plug it in and don’t have that issue.

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