Logitech VX Revolution Ergonomic Design Cordless 2.4 GHz Wireless Laser Mouse for Notebooks/Laptops/PCs with Hyper-Fast Scrolling
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Logitech VX Revolution Ergonomic Design Cordless 2.4 GHz Wireless Laser Mouse for Notebooks/Laptops/PCs with Hyper-Fast Scrolling
Customer Review: Might not be the perfect mouse for you.
Summary: 3 Stars
Pros:
1. Hyper Scroll Wheel
2. Transceiver goes inside the mouse for easy carry.
3. 10 customizable buttons.
4. Very ergonomic
Cons:
1. Hyper Scroll Wheel is too sensitive
2. The switch for the wheels is located on the bottom
3. The zoom buttons are not actually buttons but like a slider (hard to use)
4. No carrying case (VX Nano and MX Anywhere comes with a carrying case)
5. A little heavy for me
I bought this mouse early December to use for my recently purchased laptop.
First I thought because I'm paying $50 I will be using this for long time to come. I didn't care much about the Hyper scrolling wheel when I made the order, but once I used it I loved it.
Well, the Hyper Scroll Wheel has Pros and Cons at the same time.
Pros: You can read through a page with just a flick to the wheel.
Cons: Too sensitive. Sometimes, even though you are not moving the wheel, it will make the page move up or down. I talked to Logitech guys if there's a way to set it lower than the slowest setting in the SetPoint program. These guys are idiots or they don't care about the customers. They don't understand what I'm asking. They keep sending me emails how to reconfigure the buttons using SetPoint. When I got the same message for like 5 times I gave up asking.
Not like some other reviewers, I hoped that VX Revolution had the switch between the two wheel modes instead of the middle button. Since I can set the one button behind the wheel as middle button using the SetPoint. The reason why I'm telling this is because I tried to use the wheel button as middle button. It's so difficult with HyperScroll Wheel mode. Because the wheel becomes so sensitive, I had hard time not to scroll but click on a link or word to open a webpage in a new tab in internet explorer. When it's rachet mode, there's no problem clicking. Think which function you like to use with this mouse. Hyper Scroll mode without middle button function (you should probably set the button behind the wheel to middle button), or Rachet mode with normal middle button and application switch button as it's intended.
I don't know what cause problems I had, but sometimes the clicking won't be recognized, and mouse tracking gets a little inaccurate. I've read other reviews, no problems as such. So I guess I just got a bad batch.
Customer Review: Good hardware, bad design and drivers
Summary: 2 Stars
While I've been a devoted Logitech mouse user for seven years, this mouse leaves a lot to be desired. I was looking for a high-quality mouse that would work nicely with my XP notebook and SeaMonkey. I was quite disappointed.
Physically, the mouse is nicely made, but it's awfully big for a "notebook" mouse. It's only a half-inch smaller than my desktop mouse. The switches are nicely clicky, and the scroll wheel is very solid and spins quite well in both modes. The only mechanically downside is the zoom slider, which has a very stiff spring making it hard to use.
The form factor is also pretty good with two caveats: first, the search button behind the wheel is a stretch to reach. The only way I found to click it without lifting my hand off of the mouse was to lift the tip of my middle finger up and push the button with the base of my finger. That's an awkward move. Also, the thumb buttons are too high to be easily reached. The old design, with the thumb button near the desktop, was much better.
The killer with this mouse, however, is the drivers. They are buggy, half-featured, and generally unusable. Both SetPoint v3.1 on the CD and the latest v4.0 from the Logitech website required third-party extensions to the configuration files to enable the use of a thumb button as the middle button. Also, many of the features, such as zoom, web forward, and web back, require the driver to recognize the current application. SetPoint is very erratic to doing this. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and no amount of restarting the SetPoint software seems to make any difference. The search functionality, while nice in principle, is also crippled. Most of the search engine/web browser combinations simply don't work. Yahoo! Live Words seems to work with all browsers, and Microsoft IE seems to work with all search engines. However, use a non-Microsoft browser with any search engine other than Yahoo! Live Words, and you're dead in the water.
After fooling around with this for four days trying to get the drivers to behave, I returned it. It's probably fine if you want to use it exactly as configured by default with IE and Logitech's preferred search engine, Yahoo!, but anyone who needs a functioning middle button and prefers Google/Firefox/SeaMonkey is simply out of luck.
Customer Review: Great mouse but the wheel doesn't get it quite right.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great mouse. I was stuck using a Mighty Mouse for my iMac for awhile. I replaced it with this mouse and it's really night and day compared to the Mighty Mouse. The form factor is great. It's not a big mouse but it's not overly small either. It fits my hand very well. I feel pain in my hand when i use mice or play videogames too long. I've used this mouse for hours straight and do not feel the pain i usually would. So ergonomics are top notch.
Battery life seems to be great. One AA battery will last you at least 3 or 4 months which i can definitely live with. It's nice that the mouse turns itself off after you turn off or put your computer to sleep. This will do a good job in saving the juice in the battery.
All of the buttons feel great and are properly placed. I didn't feel like i had to reach for any of the buttons, and i haven't clicked a button on accident either.
So i mostly have praise for this mouse, but the wheel just doesn't get it quite right for me. It's funny how the wheel is the most advertised thing on this mouse, but it's the one and only thing that's flawed. I'm used to a sturdier scroll wheel. The VX Revolution wheel just feels kind of clumsy. Scrolling increments are too pronounced so just setting your finger on the wheel will move the page you're looking at. Sideways scrolling is a great feature, but i don't get that feeling that i'm ONLY scrolling horizontally. The scroll wheel also lets you switch to a endless spin for long documents or pages. It definitely works as advertised but i don't feel a need to change the mode on the bottom of the mouse just for this unless i really need to. Mind you, it's very simple to change the setting on the bottom of the mouse. I also don't recommend a casual page scroll in this mode either because it's uncontrollable. One last thing about the scroll wheel. No matter how much i play with the settings, i don't see what the Acceleration feature does. I changed it from slow to fast, but i don't see any difference.
So overall, great mouse with a somewhat clumsy scroll wheel. If you like the Microsoft mice scroll wheels, for example, you might also be disappointed in the VX scroll wheel. It's not a deal breaker by any means, but it should be sturdier in my opinion.
Customer Review: Aggravating to say the least...
Summary: 1 Stars
Admittedly, I may be biased in my review due to the horrific buying experience with TigerDirect. They sent the wrong item, wouldn't send a replacement to me without charging me again. Instead of overnighting the replacement to correct a mistake that they made, they sent it ground and charged me for the shipping. Then, they required that I send the wrongly sent item to them by UPS, and it's been quite some time since I've sent it in -- first week of December -- and although I know they received it, I'm still waiting to be refunded...I originally placed the order on November 11...it is now January 4th.
The number of hours spent being put on hold has totaled around 10+ houirs according to my cell phone bill -- each time I've called them, I've waited at least half-hour on hold. All of this because some moron at TigerDirect packed the wrong item. Awful, awful customer service. Pity, our family has spent a lot of money with them, but it looks like this is where that road ends.
After having gone through the six week saga, although the mouse seems to be defective, I don't have the energy to deal with them any more. The scroll wheel is nice, I will admit, but a fundamental feature of a mouse, the left- and right-click buttons, only work sporadically. I'm constantly double- to triple- clicking just to get a single-click out of it, and quadruple clicking just to get a double-click. I've been having to resort to the keyboard quite a bit because of this. Even without the TigerDirect frustration, this would be an absolute nuisance.
Otherwise, as a notebook mouse, it is a good size, but note that as compared to a regular mouse, it is considerably smaller. The fact that the switch for the smooth vs. click scroll is on the bottom of the mouse is somewhat of a design flaw as well. Also because of the weight of the scroll wheel, the otherwise light mouse has a very different center of gravity, much higher off of the desk. No real complaints about it yet, but it is definitely noticeable, especially when looking to do precise work.
Overall it is a decent mouse, not sure why they don't have a bluetooth version, and I only wished it would actually do what a mouse is fundamentally supposed to do. Clicking.
Customer Review: Slick and Ergonomic, but Overhyped and Overpriced
Summary: 3 Stars
According to the literature in this mouse's wasteful packaging, Logitech has committed years of R&D into this slick new product, and they have "completely reinvented the scrolling experience." There's also a certain chutzpah in using the word "revolution" in the product's name. Experienced users will scoff at the idea of a "revolution," because all that supposed R&D by Logitech has resulted in a few strong new features, but mostly semi-useful gimmicks that contribute needlessly to an excessive retail price. On the good side, the ergonomic design is pretty good and the mouse has a slick appearance, if you care about other people thinking your mouse isn't pretty. But this mouse's reason for existence is new frontiers in scrolling, and I have to admit that I really like the sideways scrolling feature on the versatile wheel, which is great for spreadsheets in particular.
On the other hand, I'm not too impressed by the super-fast up/down scrolling that is the source of the hype. The traction technology is fairly noteworthy, but fast scrolling is not always an advantage. I found this mouse's maximum scrolling speed actually too fast for comfort, because unless you're looking at an especially immense document, you will probably zoom right by what you're looking for. (Not to mention, you could just use the scroll bar in the document window anyway). Beyond that, the mouse design mostly consists of gimmicks. The feature in which you can click downward on the scroll bar to flip between documents is identical to simply using the Task Bar for Windows or the Dock for Mac. The button that allows you to automatically access a search engine for a highlighted word might spare you a couple of steps in normal computer use, but this is pure gravy that is completely useless if you're not presently online (like if you travel with your laptop to someplace with no connection). These are the types of rather shallow technological gimmicks that are not worth their contribution to a higher price. Until this mouse's price comes down significantly, it'll mostly be of interest to gadget geeks. The rest of us won't see much reason to drop our previous lower-priced models. [~doomsdayer520~]