Logitech VX Revolution Ergonomic Design Cordless 2.4 GHz Wireless Laser Mouse for Notebooks/Laptops/PCs with Hyper-Fast Scrolling by Logitech
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Digital camera reviews of Logitech VX Revolution Ergonomic Design Cordless 2.4 GHz Wireless Laser Mouse for Notebooks/Laptops/PCs with Hyper-Fast Scrolling
Digital camera Review: Awsome Mouse. Ok Range. Hard M3 button.
Summary: 4 Stars
This mouse is slick and very comfertable in your hand.
Clicking the scroll wheel down as a button is pretty hard.
When i have this mouse to the right of my laptop and the usb peice is pluged into the left side I get some interference and the mouse stops here and there. So the range could be better.
The zoom slider is kool too, also a bit hard to move on this light mouse but it works good, I use it to control volume :D
The feature of changing the mouse scroll speed is awsome! you can make it like a free wheel that keeps spinning for a good 10 seconds on one rev! (but I dont know why you would need that lol)
Works fine on most surfaces and is very portable because the usb peice clicks into the mouse, which turns the mouse off, and vice versa if you take it out by pressing a button in the back, the thing comes out and mouse turns on! :)
I would recommend it to people who have usb on the back and right of their laptop and dont mind a hard to scroll wheel.
Digital camera Review: BEWARE: VX Revolution CLM4N is NOT DURABLE
Summary: 3 Stars
I really like this mouse, it's an excellent device on so many levels, but it is NOT DURABLE as a portable device ought to be.
On separate occasions, I have had two of these mice experience a SINGLE, minor drop (3') onto carpet, and they each no longer work.
So, if you're a professional who has to carry your mouse around meeting to meeting on campus and you have any potential of dropping it, be prepared for it to be a resident of the gadget graveyard.
11.Jul.2007 Update: THREE IS A CHARM. I've now had three of these mice crap out due to very minor drops. I give up and will be moving on to another product.
Digital camera Review: Bait and switch -- hyper-fast scrolling lasts about 3-4 months
Summary: 1 Stars
Since the only reason one would buy this mouse for twice the cost of the similar is that hyper-fast scrolling wheel, then unfortunately it has to get the worst grade when that feature disappears after about 3 months and Logitech tries it's best to ignore the (correctable) flaw. By that time your fingers are hooked up on the high speed, so a suspicion needs to be raised that Logitech is not addressing the issue in order to, shall we say encourage, people to buy 4 per year - which brings the cost to $150 per year.
The flaw is that the rubber on the wheel starts "growing" (rubber is fast-degrading material in general) after about 3 months and since the wheel mechanism is built to a too tight tolerance (2nd flaw) is starts rubbing off enough to reduce the speed to that of any $15 mouse. On top of that, since the mouse is very hard to open without damaging something (3rd flaw) it becomes largely impossible to attempt a fix or scroll wheel replacement, even if it would be available as a spare part - and it isn't.
Bottom line - unless you are willing to keep paying about $150 per year, it's better not to try this mouse in the first place then to get hooked up and then suffer after the first 3 months.
Digital camera Review: Best Laptop Mouse Available
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been a long time fan of Logitech products. They are often the first to innovate something neat or improve on another companies breakthrough in computer peripherials.
In my opinion, Logitech was the first company to impliment the laser mouse properly. The G7 was the perfect answer to age old problems with cordless optical/laser mice. First problem, to get better DPI resolution (sensitivity and accuracy of movement), the mouse had to burn lots of power. Using standard AA batteries, you'd burn up a set of 2 within 3 days. Using rechargeables you'd get 60% of that for a life and you'd often be stuck with dead batteries when you least expected it. The G7 adopted hot swappable battery packs, one charged while one was in use.. great idea!
This notebook mouse uses a single AA battery. Battery life seems pretty decent, its only consumed 1 of 3 bars after 3 weeks of use. The USB dongle (the little thing that plugs in to the computer) also appears to shut power off on the mouse when its docked into its handy storage compartment in the mouse body. This function is more of the standard on portable mice like this. Microsoft has been doing it for years as well as other makers. The mouse and transmitter seem to have a good deal of range on a new battery I was using this one at 20ft from the USB dongle receiver without a problem! One note, since this is a cordless device, other things that transmit in the frequency range might interfere with the mouse and cause functionality to drop. This happens with every cordless device though due to FCC rules in regards to conflicting frequency devices. So the closer the reciever is to the mouse, the better.
The real reasons to upgrade to this mouse
1. Portable Mouse with laser optics - Laser is important for portable applications for laptops/notebooks because laser mice have a far wider range of mousing surfaces they can read from. The only time i've really seen an issue is on untextured glass type surfaces. I'm sure if they switched to a narrower wavelength laser, it would perform a little better. In any case, laser is way more useful than standard LED optical type systems. Comes in handy if you're portable in various locations, you dont have to worry as much about bringing a mousepad as you do with LED type mice.
2. Scroll Wheel - I'll tell ya, if i had to go back in time 10 years i'd really miss the scroll wheel. But this new variant of it with the flywheel-like weighted scrolling control is just sheer genius. Give it a little flick and you're gliding right through multipage PDF docs or long Web Pages. With lightest touch of a finger to the wheel, it stops. Much more efficent and useful than all other mice out there. The clutch setting on it on the lightest level lets it spin freely, its really sensitive so you have to watch out if your using applications that the scroll whell control like power DVD, because by default the scroller causes it to Fast Forward or Rewind video. The easy remedy though is to turn up the clutch a little bit, it takes just a second to do. You can still tilt it right and left to make it do horizontal scroll, but it doesnt zing like the vertical. Maybe they should look at doing it with a little ball, course we end up back where we started with rollerball mice that accumulate dirt on the sensors and quit working.
So in summary.. its: cordless, laser, portable and it scrolls better than anything else out there. Its funny how transparent scrolling was until now. Its like having a 40 minute commute to work every day and then waking up one morning and theres a 200mph MagLev train that stops at your front door.
Digital camera Review: Best Mouse EVER!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this mouse about a month ago and it has been a real pleasure to use it. It works on nearly all surffaces without struggle, including carpet. The only thing that it doesn't work on is glass. It has decent range and excellent battery life. I especially enjoy the ability to store the USB transmitter within the mouse. This mouse is a solid buy for a laptop user. However, I would not reccommend this mouse for a desktop user as it is relatively small and doesn't recharge in a dock. Finally, the scroll wheel in this mouse is the best feature of all... it makes scrolling a breeze and actually improves productivity.
Overall, a great buy.