Logitech VX Revolution Ergonomic Design Cordless 2.4 GHz Wireless Laser Mouse for Notebooks/Laptops/PCs with Hyper-Fast Scrolling
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Customer Review: The best mouse I've used yet
Summary: 4 Stars
There are several in-depth reviews on here so I won't take up too much space. I don't usually do reviews on products, but i really love this mouse and felt I had to.
The main complaint about this mouse is the click-free-spin switch is under the mouse. Yes, that is an akward place to put such a thing. But honestly, the mouse has been on free-spin since I got it and I wouldn't change it for the world; it's my favorite feature about this mouse. After 2 weeks of everyday use, I don't know how I got along without it. I literally find myself everyday saying how much I love my new mouse. You can slowly scroll, or you can spin it hard for long pages. It's perfect, and I don't miss the clicks at all.
The resolution of this mouse is great. I do alot of work in Adobe Illustrator on my laptop. I do have a wacom tablet, but I haven't felt the need to pull it out since I got this mouse. I use it on hardwood floors, carpet, my comforter, and mouse pads. It is always precise enough for detailed illustration work that I forget about what i'm using.
The size could be a bit bigger, but it doesn't bother me. I have large hands, and rarely cup a mouse in my hand anyway. It is a very comfortable mouse and everyone who has held it said the same.
There are almost too many buttons, but thats not a bad thing; just that some go unused. I rarely do a search on a highlighted word, so I am thinking about changing the function of that button. I've already changed the app-switch button as I am used to using the wheel click as a third button and i can just use alt-tab to app switch with no loss of speed. I use mouse gestures for firefox, so that removes the need for forward back buttons. It's nice to have all the buttons, I just need to reprogram them to be more useful to me.
Basically, this is a great mouse, with very customizable software included. I love it, and I never go online telling people what I think about the stuff I buy. If you're thinking about getting a new mouse, go to the store and hold this one. Then buy it and use it for awhile, you won't be sorry.
Customer Review: Who rates a mouse!
Summary: 4 Stars
I feel really stupid writing a review for a computer mouse. It's just a mouse for crying out loud! But in the interest of trying to help others decide, here are my comments about this thing:
- Size is good for someone with large hands. It's not a "tiny" laptop mouse
- Scroll wheel is nice. You can set to "click" or spin freely. It's got some heft to it so if feels well built (the scroll wheel that is)
- 5 of the 7 buttons are "programmable". Left and right click are the same as any other mouse and can't be changed. The others can be set to do many things. Some of them even allow you to tell the mouse what keyboard shortcut to execute. I haven't tried that yet but if it works that would nice.
- The scroll wheel has a left and right movement to it which I didn't know about. By moving the scroll wheel L or R it will scroll across a document/photo/etc... that is wider than the screen. Very cool feature!
- the "zoom" button is not very good. Considering all the "design" that went into this thing, I would expect all the buttons to be very smooth. The zoom one is for lack of better words, cheap.
- The buttons on the side of the mouse (by your thumb - sorry lefties) are a little awkward to get to but I think once you get used to them they're fine.
- The button just behind the scroll wheel is difficult to access easily. I find myself curling my hand to get to it. No big deal either - I haven't found a good use for it yet!
- Software is very good. Very easy to use and problem free with my Windows XP Pro laptop.
Overall I gave this thing 4 stars because I thought for the money, they could have done a little better job with the zoom button. Rating it's usefulness in other categories, I'd say:
5 for ease of use
5 for comfort/ergonomics
5 for software
5 for coolness - if you can call that a category!
5 for ability to program the buttons
Maybe I should have given a 5 star rating.....
Customer Review: Great mouse for Macs. More useful than the Revo MX, but overpriced.
Summary: 4 Stars
After using the new Revo MX and VX for about a week, I can say that the smaller VX is more useful for Macs in a couple ways. First of all, the Zoom slider on the VX can be programmed to zoom, click, adjust volume, switch application, eject a disc, or just about any other action. The equivalent thumb knob on the MX can only be set to zoom or application switch. Why this is, I don't know. But the Logitech drivers give the VX more flexibility. I also like that the VX takes just one AA battery. The MX has a sealed Lithium battery, so if you happen to run out, you must wait while the mouse recharges. With the VX, you simply pop in a new battery and you are good to go!
One shortcoming of the VX is that the much-hyped Gear Shift wheel does not automatically switch from smooth scrolling to click-by-click -- you have to manually flip a small switch on the bottom. For me, this makes the feature useless. In the middle of a long web page, I'm not going to pick up my mouse, flip it over, slide a switch and set it down again. So if you want it to automatically switch between the two modes, get the bigger MX model.
There are some nice Mac specific things: The search button bring up your Spotlight search -- NICE! You can get the forward and back buttons work better if you change the default keyboard shortcut from left and right arrow to [ and ] brackets. That way you can use forward and back in Finder windows, as well as any web browser -- really handy!
In a nutshell...
PROS
Much improved Mac OS X drivers (per application settings)
Silky smooth gliding
Incredibly accurate laser tracking (works even on high-gloss desks!)
Easy battery swapping
Very tiny USB receiver turns off the mouse when hidden away inside it
CONS
Expensive
Microgear scroll wheel pretty useless
Somewhat tiny if you usually rest your entire hand on your mouse.
Side scrolling is very slow on Mac, even at maximum setting. (you are best off just turning it off with the driver.)
Customer Review: Not using it as a notebook mouse...
Summary: 5 Stars
I generally only use Microsoft mice. I have bought and gotten rid of Logitech's quirky mice for years and always ended up with a plain vanilla Microsoft Intellimouse something...(Intellimouse 1.0, Intellimouse w/ Scroll, Intellimouse Optical, Intellimouse Optical Blue, Intellimouse Basic)..it is tough to beat simplicity.
But man, an exec at my company showed me this mouse's smaller brother, the VX nano, and I loved the wheel and weight - so I bought one and love it, but I use that with my notebook.
For my desktop I started to want something similar but larger, so I had a choice between the MX Revo and the VX Revo, the MX is actually a desktop mouse where the VX is marketed as a notebook mouse. I don't understand why Logitech does this as this mouse is actually kind of large for a notebook mouse. So after looking at all the funky double wheels and stuff for the MX, i decided to go with the VX and have not regretted it.
The VX is smaller than Logitech's general definition of a desktop mouse, so it isn't a hand rest style mouse. Thats why I love it. I am one of those people that doesn't click very well with my hand fully opened up, i need the bend my index and middle finger to be comfortable clicking.
My idiosyncrasies aside, this mouse is a fine piece of engineering. The roller is awesome, I love the weight and momentum of the spin. The weight of the mouse feels like it is dense, which is very nice when compared to todays generally cheapo empty feeling mice. Laser tracking is very nice when compared to Microsoft's optical technology - which is the only thing I can compare it to. Plus I get a ton of battery life out of the single AA that powers it. I use Sanyo Eneloop Rechargeables with this and it works fine.
Also, as I am using it as a desktop mouse - it seems to turn itself off when idle for more than a few seconds. I say "seems" because I get no "turn-on" lag when I start using it again but the battery gauge turns on as if I just manually powered it back on.
Customer Review: The BEST mouse EVER !
Summary: 5 Stars
I never write reviews but this mouse is so good that I feel like i own it a good one!
First of all the one that I got first had something wrong with the scroll, I wouldn't work smoothly (like a software issue) maybe something was wrong with the receiver I don't know. I exchanged it and although I was thinking that that is just the way this mouse works I was pleasantly surprised.
It's perfect! Thanks to the microgear solution you get the best of two worlds smooth of hmmm regular scroll. Having the choice is nice. I usually use the smooth option.
I spend over 14 hours a day on my laptop and a comfortable mouse is really important. In Firefox i usually read everything in tabs so jumping between them without having to reach for the keyboard or mowing the mouse is really comfortable using the extra buttons on the mouse which you can easily configure (I use combinations like ctrl + W and ctrl + TAB to close and /jump to next tab) It does save a lot of time.
I never thought that the extra keys would come in handy or that the smooth/fast scroll option will be useful rather than just something that I never use. I use all the functions all the time and switching to some other mouse is such a pain that i prefer to take this one with me and just switch the USB receiver which takes like 1.5 sec. The receiver fits in to the mouse so it wont get lost and it's small so you don't have something big (and easy to brake) sticking out of your laptop.
Battery life is also good i think they will go on for half a year at least.
The mouse is more precise than any other I have used and fits your hand perfectly. I paid 89 $ for it which is 2 times more than it costs now but to tell you the truth I never regretted it and even if it would cost 120 I'd get it.
Summary:
Comfortable
Packed with USEFUL features
Brilliant DESIGN
10/10 from me and believe me I'm a extremely demanding user.