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Corsair Scimitar SE

First impressions

Section titled “First impressions”
  • Lag: something about using this caused my entire Mac Studio M2 Ultra to lag terribly. I restarted the whole machine and it was fixed. I think it’s iCue, since reopening just that seemed to help. May have had to do with having my G600 plugged in. Anyway, doesn’t seem like a permanent issue.
  • Buttons
    • Shift button (😭)
      • I really, really wanted there to be a shift button like on the G600. I’m using right-click for the shift button (via the “Profile Switching” feature combined with the “While Pressed” toggle), meaning I have to use middle-click as riight-click and the DPI button for middle-click. I’m sure this will mess me up someday.
      • “While Pressed” seems to have some delay, so if I right-click twice quickly, then it’ll activate right-click in the secondary profile. I suspect I’m going to come to rely on this functionality since it’s actually somewhat convenient to do that.
    • No extra scroll buttons: the scroll wheel can only be pressed in, not to either side.
    • Changing profiles: the button is on the bottom of the mouse. I do swap between Windows and macOS and want this to be in a more usable location.
  • Scroll wheel: it’s noisier than the G600 (since it’s slightly clicky). I don’t really mind this though.
  • Device profiles: you can’t set a button to change profiles when in “Device Memory Mode” (presumably for performance reasons), meaning I have to have iCue open all the time. This isn’t the biggest deal since iCue actually works on macOS (unlike Logitech’s GHub), but I do find it annoying to be running an extra program 100% of the time since it represents another dependency.
    • This may only be a problem with the wireless version of the mouse.
      • As shown in this video, there’s a “Profile Switch” option for the wired version. I asked about whether this works how I want it to in this thread.
      • The wired version has another physical button on top which is apparently for changing profiles.
      • The wired version (“SCIMITAR RGB ELITE Optical”) only has three onboard profiles though (reference). Since I would need a base profile and a shifted profile for two OSes, this wouldn’t be an ideal solution.
    • Device Memory Mode seems to lag sometimes when iCue is open.
  • Software: iCue’s layout is nonsensical.
    • If you want to see at a glance what your bindings are, then too bad! You have to either rename every “Keystroke 1” (and then keep it in-sync with what it’s bound to) or click each button.
    • The side buttons show in two columns rather than three like the actual layout of the mouse.
  • Other stuff
    • The thumb buttons, weight, etc. are all fine for me.
    • I don’t know what the battery life is going to be like.
    • If this mouse is fine, then hopefully they’ll keep making hardware updates to it every couple of years and I won’t need to switch vendors yet again. Adding a ring-finger button would solve most of my problems.
  • Overall:
    • It’s no G600…
    • Having to depend on iCUE doesn’t sound great… people online complain left and right about it.
    • I paid 70forthisonasupersale.IfI′monlyevergoingtousethisinwiredmodeanyway,thenitsoundslikeIboughtthewrongproductsincethechange−profilebuttonisonthebottomofthewirelessversionandyoucan′tbinda"shift"keywhenthemouseissettousedevicememory.Thewiredversionisonsalefor70 for this on a super sale. If I'm only ever going to use this in wired mode anyway, then it sounds like I bought the wrong product since the change-profile button is on the bottom of the wireless version and you can't bind a "shift" key when the mouse is set to use device memory. The wired version is on sale for 50 right now.
      • Then again, I will probably only ever use this mouse on my own two computers, and wireless is probably going to be nice, so I’m torn.
    • Giving up a dedicated “K” key is already impacting my YouTube watching, as is not having a dedicated “back” button.

Usability notes to self

Section titled “Usability notes to self”
  • Physical buttons:
    • Hold RC, press MC: acts as though I pressed middle-click
    • Double-tap RC quickly: acts as though I pressed right-click