Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse - Laser - USBCarbon Neutral Certified by SCS Global Services

I bought this mouse because I'm such a gadget freak I have to have the latest and greatest. Very first thing and probably the most important thing about it is how ergonomic it is. My hand is fairly small but it fits perfectly. I love the way my thumb nestles in the side of the mouse but obviously, for this mouse to be comfortable you must be right handed due to this design. Also I like the wheel that my thumb settles on without having to feel around. This wheel, when using Vista, allows you to view and switch between all your open windows very easily. Both wheels are customizable with the software that comes with the mouse. The third thing I really like is the hyper scroll. The wheel on top of the mouse scrolls pages just as most do but depending on which program you are using, it self adjusts to provide the most efficient scrolling. For example, if you're in a browser, the wheel is practically frictionless. Flick it quickly and it'll scroll forever. Stop it anytime by lightly touching it. But if in your e-mail client, it has the familiar faint clicking feel to it. You can still hyper scroll by clicking down on the wheel once to free it and then you can hyper scroll. Conversely, if you're in your browser and you need the more sensitive and accurate clicking feel, just press on the wheel once and there you'll have it. There are no batteries to replace as it comes with it's own dock charger. It has little LED's to show you battery status and a charge lasts a LONG time. It also has a little on/off switch on the bottom to conserve battery, not that you'll need to and I never remember to switch it off. Still the charge lasts and lasts. I've had it probably a month now and have only recharged it once and that was just because I wanted to set it on the dock. The only very slight problem that I've noticed is due to the internal mechanics, it's a little heavier than a normal mouse. Therefore, when I'm trying to very accurately place my cursor between letters in text to maybe highlight part of a word or specific text, I find it just a little more difficult to place the cursor exactly. But that may be due to my very old mouse pad. Just now, I lifted the pad, put it directly on the desk, and it was fine. Maybe no mousepad at all would be better. Anyhow, if you love gadgets and plenty of custom options, and you don't mind spending a few more bucks, you'll LOVE this mouse. Logitech has come a LONG way from the little ps2 rolling ball mice with the cord. Go ahead splurge on this one!

I hate mice. always have, since the early 1980's when I had some clunky mouse on my PC/XT for Windows 1.0. When I had to have a device that allowed me to do what a mouse does, I by far preferred the IBM Trackpoint, a little joystick that sits right on your keyboard between the G and H keys. Or a touchpad. Or a ball. There was no payback for moving my hand off my keyboard to the mouse.But this mouse has changed my mind. I've been playing a lot of World of Warcraft lately, and, while you can play that game without a mouse, the mouse works better. This mouse has software that allows you to send keystrokes from the mouse buttons. All of them. 11 of them:Left(1), center(3) (click the top wheel down) and right(2).Lean the top wheel left(4) and right(5).Top center behind the wheel(6).Left edge front(7) and back(8).Thumbwheel forward(9), back(10), and in(11).All the above and you can roll the mouse wheel forward and back. And the mouse moves and tracks accurately on any surface - no matter how uniform in color it appears to be.But that does not mess the mouse up for normal use - see, inside WoW, I use the thumbwheel for targeting - forward targets enemy, back targets friend, and clicking it sends an escape to break the targeting. If I'm using the mouse in some other application, no problem. The definitions change based on the program I use.So the button on the top gets me on and off my mount. The left side roller targets. The left side forward button bubbles me. The left side back button opens my backpacks or my map (if I hold alt). Leaning the top mousewheel left does a "tab" to roll around enemy targets and leaning it right does an assist (which allows me to assist a party member or heal whoever the mob is attacking). And I still have my left right and center mouse clicks as well as my mousewheel with their standard functions.I play WoW a lot - but any other application I use that much can get their fuctions improved - like if I was editing a lot, I could use the side buttons for cut and paste, or undo and redo or next find - anything that has a keystroke binding can be done off the mouse buttons.But there are some built in definitions - like the one that allows you to magnify or shrink web sites - or the one that many other people have talked about that allow you to flip through all the apps you have open.So why do I love this mouse? When I play WoW, I keep my right hand on the mouse. I can do a lot from that mouse - in combat, my left hand punches a few keys on a N52, and my right hand stays on the mouse - and that is all I need. A mouse with 4 buttons would not be enough, but 8 buttons over the standard three and wheel (11 buttons plus a mousewheel counting the thumbwheel as three buttons) is enough to do everything I normally need to do.Editing is the same why - some redefinition, and I can keep my hand on the mouse until I need to start typing text again. Browsing has always been a mouse activity, but you need to find click spots on your screen less often when you have this mouse.RIGHT HANDED with a VENGANCE. If you can't yse your mouse right handed, don't waste your time. If you have not gotten it, you really can't use this mouse left handed, not in the way that it was meant to be used.When Apple brought out the Mac, they made a big deal of only having one button on the mouse. Simpler, they said. Everything you need, they said.At one point, I was almost sold by the one button hype. But as I use this mouse, I realize that they were wronger than I had ever thought before. :-) The more buttons on the mouse the better - provided that the buttons are easy to hit and tell apart by touch. Logitech may have hit the limit here - but they have not surpassed that limit. This is a great mouse.