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Logitech MX Revolution - Mouse - laser - wireless - RF - USB wireless receiver | 
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| Brand: Logitech
Category: CE
Buy New: £50.50
Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 30897
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
MPN: 931689-0914
Model: 931689-0914
EAN: 5099206000964
ASIN: B000GUA7L6
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| 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+ |
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Product Description
Logitech MX Revolution mouse gives you powerful new controls that will streamline the way you work. The mouse uses SmartShift and MicroGear technologies which will detect your current application and automatically apply the scrolling mode that best fits the task at hand. MX Revolution is equiped with hyper-fast scrolling wheel flying through long documents at hyperspeed with just the touch of a finger. MX Revolution disposes of a variety of buttons which will make your internet search or videogame functions a lot easier to handle. With just a touch of a finger you can for example choose a word or phrase, switch from one document to another and copy/paste. This mouse comes with Recharging station.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
Fairly pleased. Not perfect though. September 21, 2008
I bought one of these for home use after enviously eyeing-up a work colleague's. (Its used mainly for CAD work.)
The mouse is very comfortable to hold and retains its charge for a decent amount of time. I really, really like the scroll-wheel. Works very well in both Vista and OS X.
The problem that I have found (and searching google many, many other people have found) is that the mouse 'stutters' if the USB dongle is too far from the mouse.
Now my Mac Pro is on top of the desk to the left of me, and the mouse is on the right of me. It stutters if plugged in to the back of the machine. The easy remedy is to bring the USB dongle closer to the mouse. I have done this and I am really pleased with the mouse now. In fact, I plugged it into the USB port underneath the right-hand-end of my keyboard so its only 100mm away from the mouse.
Although I am happy with the operation of the mouse now that the dongle is close to the mouse, I did intend to put the dongle inside the computer's case using the PCI-USB-card's internal USB port. There is no way that it would operate properly through 3mm of aluminium if it didn't work well plugged into the back of the machine. So I can't do that.
Summary, its a very good mouse if you plan on having the USB Dongle very close to the mouse. On the other hand, it can be barely usable if the computer is further away, or worse still, under the desk!
BTW the guy at work with the mouse has admitted that his mouse stutters all the time, but being fickle, he is more interested in how great the thing looks & feels than how it operates. Some people are silly :)
 Lost the USB dongle July 30, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got this mouse, used it and thought it's not bad, but approx. 2 months after buying it I lost my USB dongle. So I asked Logitech where I could buy one and they told me they don't sell this seperately. That is absolutely diabolical, considering the price of the thing, they obviously expect me to buy a new one. Way to be eco-friendly guys!
So sadly I have to buy a new mouse and of course I don't think I'll be going for Logitech. Obviously other manufacturers might have the same policy, but my disgust at the answer is probably pretty obvious from this review, and it definitely left a sour taste in my mouth with regards to this company
 Something it would be useful to know May 26, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Rather annoyingly all the sites I read with reviews of the MX Revolution fail to mention the fact that the damn charger requires an AC connection and does not draw power from a USB port.
I'm sure that I am not alone in having a drastic shortage of power points in my home. Running my computer, speakers, monitor, router, printer etc. leaves me with a probably dangerous number of extension leads and multipoint adapters to allow me to run 7 items from one socket. I do not want to perform geometric magic to fit yet another AC plug into the mix and I find it more than a little offensive that logitech haven't taken advantage of the power supplying ability of the USB port (that I have to sacrifice to the dongle anyway) to recharge the feeble batteries.
If I'd known in advance I just wouldn't have bought it and not felt annoyed, but the fact seems to be hidden so I had to send it back and now feel somewhat aggrieved.
If you don't want yet another plug in the wall don't buy an MX revolution. If you are lucky enough to be blessed with more power sockets than USB ports go right ahead and enjoy a fairly decent mouse albeit with rather short battery life.
4 devices and all of them faulty April 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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. The non-replaceable battery really worries me though April 13, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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 [e.g. when manually changing Microgear modes from freewheel to ratchet you could simultaneously jump pages as well, which isn't that endearing]. Otherwise 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 [it tends to whizz too fast on weapon selection etc...]. I can live with this, as the non-vibrating Microgear [freewheel mode] mousewheel has eliminated RSI at the base of my index finger [I live on PCs at work and home] - in fact I'd never buy a mouse without it for that reason alone. Plus my Revolution MX mouse has now relocated as a 'work' mouse, so it's never used for gaming anyway [I use a similarly Microgear enabled Logitech MX 620 for home gaming instead, with a physically switched ratchet/freewheel mode Microgear wheel].
The Logitech MX's wireless link refreshes 2x faster than other makes and is supposedly as fast as USB wired. Plus the revolution's recharge LEDs look cool [Note: the mouse charging cradle requires a 13A socket]. 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 finger vibrating `rachet-click' on some occasions, e.g in Word). The MicroGear freewheeel/ratchet mode can be manually swapped between using a wheel-click as well, if programmed to do so via SetPoint. 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 this MX Revolution mouse 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). That said I only recharge the mouse when the cute LEDs say critical battery level, and the internal batteries are holding up as good as new 7 months on [lasting over a week between charges].
I really want this mouse at home, but the non-replaceable internal battery problem 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 they last a year anyway. Plus it gets rid of the thumb switch wheel I don't care for, loses the mains 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 [it gives him the choice I suppose]. 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.
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