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Well I finally decided to treat myself to a new computer mouse. I’ve been using my old trusty Logitech MX500 for around 3 years now and I have to say it has never let me down. But the time had come and I had purchased myself a new Logitech MX Revolution. Dubbed “World’s Most Advanced Mouse” by Logitech of course, it is a mouse that looks and feels different from the rest.

Eye candy:
The mouse looks like a sleek sports car, perfectly curved with a glossy black piano finish on one side and rubbery “grippy” texture coating on the other. The scroll wheels and the middle search button have a chrome finish and even the battery meter can only be seen when lit.

Feel:
In the hand the mouse feels amazing. It is perfectly curved so that your hand is in the most ergonomically natural position it could be in. All the pressure is taken off your wrist with your thumb sitting inside a curved section of the mouse.

Again the rubbery material below your thumb and on the right side of the mouse help support your hand and stop it from sliding off the mouse.

The mouse is quite light for a cordless mouse and slides very very easily due to slick slider pads fitted to the bottom of the mouse.

Performance:
The MX Revolution has an 800 DPI sensor which can easily accommodate anyone from a ordinary PC user to a pro gamer. Yes of course you can get the Logitech G7 with a DPI of 2000 and a G9 with a DPI of 3200 but personally I don’t believe you will ever notice the difference.

The MX Revolution has an in-built Lithium Ion battery with a runtime of around 15 days. The mouse comes with its own small docking station (directly connected to AC power).

The mouse clicks are fairly audible but not too load that they can get annoying. My one and only drawback for this mouse has been the middle click (scroll wheel). Unlike other mouses it feels completely different, it is quite difficult to explain, but it feels like there are multiple layers of clicks inside the mouse so when you do press it, you feel like you have clicked but it hasn’t gone through. You must press the scroll wheel completely down all the way to manage a middle click, this is a bit different to what you’d expect when compared to other mouses.

The scroll wheel itself is quite revolutionary. Through the software provided, you can select whether you want the scroll wheel to be a click-to-click or a free spin. Click-to-click is what you’d find on a normal mouse, every spin has a little click which accounts for say one rotation etc but free spin allows the scroll wheel to spin with very little friction and without clicks allowing for much faster and smother scrolls.

Software:
The software provided is quite detailed. Allowing you to manage all aspects of the mouse from tracking speed, to button assignments, to scroll speeds and even to battery power and management.

Overall:
9 out of 10, the middle click does get to me, especially because I use it considerably for Firefox tabs.

Thanks,

Marat