Product Description

Full speed USB wireless technology with rechargeable Li-ion battery.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14760 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Logitech
• Model: 931689-0914
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, 1.70 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

4 devices and all of them faulty
I love the features of this device and bought it.
While using it, it is excellent BUT you have to find one (and you have to search for a long long time, believe me) that is fully functional (if you can).

I bought this device from the best electronic shop in Greece 7 months ago.
It had a problem with the thumb wheel. It was toooooo sensitive when un-zooming in that extend that when I used the mouse the text on the browser for example kept shrinking all the time.
I returned it, they confirmed the problem and gave me another one.

Second one was again faulty. Scroll wheel was toooooo loose at the extend that I was just moving the mouse and because the wheel was slightly moving by itself the document scrolled.
Back to the shop, they confirmed the problem and replaced the device with a new one.

Third one was faulty again! Thumb wheel the same problem PLUS Forward button un-sensitive so I had to apply more pressure to activate it.
The shop once again confirmed the problems and this time because so embarrassed the refund the money.

I was stupid enough to buy again the Revolution MX mouse because I really liked its features and I couldn't believe that the forth one will have problem as well. I proved wrong. The forth one has again problem with the scroll wheel.

I have checked on the web for others opinions and they had similar problems. So I suppose that Logitech has quality control problems at its China's factories.
I even wrote an e-mail to them two days ago with no reply yet...

Conclusion: DON'T BUY THIS DEVICE. This is my personal and justified enough (after 4 different devices) opinion.

Weird but mostly wonderful - but the integrated battery really worries me
This is a very strange beast when you remove it from the box - I got it as a 'wireless mouse upgrade' on my work PC and didn't know it would be an MX Revolution. Initial impressions were it should be in a display cabinet not on a computer. But put your right hand over it and it feels very comfortable (most left handers probably have no chance). The rubberised microgear metal scroll wheel is great - it actually weighs a perfectly balanced 14g I believe, so that one flick and it spins effortlessly, scrolling down large pages in a trice - it's so easy to control, plus it rocks side to side giving two more switches. It's possible that on a very slow computer the 'freewheel' mode Microgear wheel might run away with itself, if used too quickly, and overshoot while the PC tries to keep up. There's a hint of this with my new Intel quad core PC, although in this freewheel mode the wheel will go as fast back up, as down.

The Revolution's standard left/right mouse buttons have just the right resistance and the far left twin thumb buttons are very useful as previous and next page. Most buttons have a few program options and the main wheel doubles as the 'third' main mouse button when pushed down - although it's noticeably less refined when used like this and may accidently go to it's side rocker switch as well. Mouse build quality, response and accuracy is excellent - fine for shooter games, and the 20 feet range from the USB dongle is good (its wireless not bluetooth and it sits near my wireless router with no problems). I am a keen gamer, and with my fast Quad core + NVidia 8800 (XP not Vista) gaming machine I get no mouse problems at all with games like Supreme Commander, Doom3 and Quake 4 - in fact it was the USB lead snagging that lead me to dump my MS Intellimouse. It's likely that a wired gaming mouse would be a better choice than the Revolution MX if you only ever play games though, as a 'freewheel' mode Microgear wheel isn't that useful when gaming, except perhaps as the zoom in Supreme Commander. The Logitech wireless link refreshes 2x faster than other makes and is supposedly as fast as USB wired. Plus the recharge LEDs look cool. The only ergonomic thing I don't care for is the switch wheel just by the thumb, it slides through and selects other minimised windows, but using it often pushes the mouse a jot and you can click on the wrong window - this click-wheel also gets in the way of resting your thumb in the comfortable groove. Plus the USB dongle is solid and sticks 1.5 inches out of the port, easy to smash off and others have said Logitech won't sell you a new one if you break it (it's a whole new mouse set only I believe). Fortunately my little USB transmitter slips into a USB port tucked up behind my monitor and so its well out of the way - but a little blob on a USB lead would be better for many others (you could use a cheap USB extension lead).

With my very cheap Logitech 650 mouse I get tingling in my fingers using its wheel, but this vanishes using the Revolutions great microgear scroll wheel - and you can whizz about documents & web pages with ease (the wheel does automatically go to a standard precise `rachet-click' on some occasions, e.g in Word). Plus this MX mouse glides over my rough polished wood desk whereas the cheap 650 seems to stick fast in comparison. So this mouse is overall a massive hit with me so far, and I can recommend it. The only downside, and I think it's a biggy, is that the li-ion battery isn't user replaceable and I can't even find a way on-line to get Logitech to replace the battery when it fails (it's supposed to last 3 years). The mouse looks great on it's very classy recharger cradle though. But I really wish it had user replaceable AA batteries (that's all that's inside it anyway), even if they were rechargeable - otherwise at some point it is going to be a real pain (and some report recharge cycles falling from the initial 7 days to daily within months of use). I really want this mouse at home, but the battery replacement alone has put me off - so I bought the cheaper but microgear enabled Logitech MX 620 Wireless Laser Mouse from Amazon instead, simply as it runs on standard replaceable AA batteries - and supposedly they last a year anyway. Plus it gets rid of the thumb switch wheel I don't care for, loses the recharge cradle, and has a five year warranty to this MX's three year one (that battery again perhaps?). The 'freewheel' Microgear mode is selected by a physical switch on the MX 620, rather than being 'automatic' with this MX Revolution, which I prefer as I only ever want 'freewheel' mode - although my son [12] always switches it the other way. However the Logitech MX 620 mouse is nowhere near as classy in look or feel as this MX Revolution, although granted it is over £20 cheaper.

Best mouse I've ever had.
This mouse is superb. Build quality is faultless. The free spinning wheel button is fantasitc - you can whip through documents with ease. Ergonomics are perfect. It is quite simply the best mouse I've ever had and worth every penny.