Posted 12/13/2009 at 06:38:30pm

For me it's all about the e-ink display.  It's just so easy on the eyes when reading in bed for long periods.

Posted 11/22/2009 at 09:57:01pm

I don't want a situation where I have to routinely run a web search through multiple search engines to make sure I include their exclusive content in my results.

If this story is true I may have to avoid Bing on principle :)

Posted 11/09/2009 at 12:09:05am

It's not bad.  I had one of the original G5's.  After it eventually died I went to the G9, but never really took to either of the handgrips.  I jumped on the G500 as soon as it was available purely for the shape.

The cluster of thumb buttons are fine.  Two are raised and in line with each other.  The third is lower and below.  I've yet to fumble and get confused about which one is which.

You can get all 5 sensitivites.  I'm not sure what you guys were doing wrong.

For me it does inherit one annoyance from the G5 that the G9 did fix for me.  Clicking the wheel button. Like the G5 it feels like the wheel is raised quite high.  It also feels very stiff.  When middle clicking a lot I find my finger starts to get sore. 

I also find it pretty easy to activate the tilt switches when I meant to only middle click.  I use my index finger on both the left click and the wheel, so maybe that has something to do with it.  On the G5 I ended up remapping the tilt to middle click.  So I would just nudge the wheel for middle clicking.

Multiple profiles would be good if you used them I guess.  On my G9 I ended up adjusting one profile to suit my needs and never bothered using anything else.