Product Description

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13231 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Logitech
• Model: 931689-0914
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, .2 pounds

Features

• Advanced SmartShift Technology adapts the scrolling mode to your application
• Hyper fast scrolling to fly through long documents
• USB connection for Windows XP, Vista and Mac OSX 10.2.8+

Manufacturer's Description
Smarter, faster, and fully-loaded, the MX Revolution gives you powerful new controls that will streamline the way you work. Logitech's innovative MicroGear Precision Scroll Wheel lets you fly through long documents at hyperspeed, or switch to precise click-to-click scrolling for navigating lists, slides, and image collections. Toggle between open documents with the convenient Quick-Flip thumb wheel, or search the Web by highlighting a word or phrase and pressing the Search button.

Customer Reviews

Fairly pleased. Not perfect though.
I bought one of these for home use after enviously eyeing-up a work colleague's. (Its used mainly for CAD work.)

The mouse is very comfortable to hold and retains its charge for a decent amount of time. I really, really like the scroll-wheel. Works very well in both Vista and OS X.

The problem that I have found (and searching google many, many other people have found) is that the mouse 'stutters' if the USB dongle is too far from the mouse.
Now my Mac Pro is on top of the desk to the left of me, and the mouse is on the right of me. It stutters if plugged in to the back of the machine. The easy remedy is to bring the USB dongle closer to the mouse. I have done this and I am really pleased with the mouse now. In fact, I plugged it into the USB port underneath the right-hand-end of my keyboard so its only 100mm away from the mouse.

Although I am happy with the operation of the mouse now that the dongle is close to the mouse, I did intend to put the dongle inside the computer's case using the PCI-USB-card's internal USB port. There is no way that it would operate properly through 3mm of aluminium if it didn't work well plugged into the back of the machine. So I can't do that.

Summary, its a very good mouse if you plan on having the USB Dongle very close to the mouse. On the other hand, it can be barely usable if the computer is further away, or worse still, under the desk!

BTW the guy at work with the mouse has admitted that his mouse stutters all the time, but being fickle, he is more interested in how great the thing looks & feels than how it operates. Some people are silly :)

Lost the USB dongle
I got this mouse, used it and thought it's not bad, but approx. 2 months after buying it I lost my USB dongle. So I asked Logitech where I could buy one and they told me they don't sell this seperately. That is absolutely diabolical, considering the price of the thing, they obviously expect me to buy a new one. Way to be eco-friendly guys!

So sadly I have to buy a new mouse and of course I don't think I'll be going for Logitech. Obviously other manufacturers might have the same policy, but my disgust at the answer is probably pretty obvious from this review, and it definitely left a sour taste in my mouth with regards to this company

Something it would be useful to know
Rather annoyingly all the sites I read with reviews of the MX Revolution fail to mention the fact that the damn charger requires an AC connection and does not draw power from a USB port.
I'm sure that I am not alone in having a drastic shortage of power points in my home. Running my computer, speakers, monitor, router, printer etc. leaves me with a probably dangerous number of extension leads and multipoint adapters to allow me to run 7 items from one socket. I do not want to perform geometric magic to fit yet another AC plug into the mix and I find it more than a little offensive that logitech haven't taken advantage of the power supplying ability of the USB port (that I have to sacrifice to the dongle anyway) to recharge the feeble batteries.

If I'd known in advance I just wouldn't have bought it and not felt annoyed, but the fact seems to be hidden so I had to send it back and now feel somewhat aggrieved.

If you don't want yet another plug in the wall don't buy an MX revolution. If you are lucky enough to be blessed with more power sockets than USB ports go right ahead and enjoy a fairly decent mouse albeit with rather short battery life.