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Logitech Wireless Mouse, a sweet luxury
Date of Review: Dec 26, 2006
The Bottom Line: Great mouse for anyone who regularly travels with a laptop or who simply doesn't want the clutter of another wire on their desk.
Style
The LX-7 comes in several colors, I personally have grey and my co-worker has a nice shiny blue. It looks quite modern, and after having it for almost a year, it barely even looks worn even though I use it 7 days a week, all day long. The second component of the mouse is the radio antenna that is plugged into a USB port. I first looked for Bluetooth mice, but these are, for some reason I'm not sure of, as small as a matchbox car. I have XXL hands, micro-mice are not for me. So the minor inconvenience of plugging the antenna into my laptop every day is minimal compared to the comfort and additional features a full sized mouse provides.
Buttons
You should understand left/right click by now. If you didn't, you wouldn't be savvy enough to be looking for reviews for a wireless mouse on Epinions. The only thing I've noticed worth mentioning about this aspect is how style influences performance. This mouse comes in multiple colors. Mine is a flat grey, while my co-worker's is a glossy blue. The shiny vs. flat colors affects how the plastic bends to do the left and right clicks. There is absolutely no difference in performance; however I personally prefer the feel of the flat grey cover than the blue.
Other than this ultra-minute detail, there are two additional programmable buttons. These come preset from Logitech as forward and back for Internet Explorer (but not Firefox for some reason). You can program these to be anything you want. I've kept one as Back, and reprogrammed the other to be undo, comes in handy when you work with PowerPoint a lot, as I do.
Wheel
The wheel is the strongest selling point of this mouse, other than the wireless. There is the standard up/down roll for documents. There are two additional features. The first one is a Zoom. Click the wheel down like a button, and then use the roll up/down to zoom in/out. This is a nice feature when you're looking at a movie trailer on IMDB.com and you want to see it larger. It's also great when you're putting the finer touches on a PowerPoint presentation. I'd assume this would also be great for anyone who has vision trouble and needs larger text on web pages. The second nice additional feature about the wheel is the side scroll. I personally work with exceptionally large spread sheets. I can scroll left and right by tilting the wheel in the corresponding direction. The wheel on this particular mouse simply makes navigation through windows much more convenient.
Range
I give various talks a year, and I don't like being tied behind the computer, so I use the mouse as a remote control for my presentations so I can be animated in the front of the room. With new batteries, you will get about 12 – 15 feet, even though most of the time my mouse is never more than 2 feet from the receiver.
Comfort
I've personally used very few mice that were particularly uncomfortable, with the notable exception of Apple's circular mouse sold with iMacs and eMacs. It's fine for either righties or lefties. It's quite ergonomic as your fingers just relax over the curve of it.
Battery Life
2 AA batteries will power it for months. This is, however, the only criticism I have of the mouse, there is a battery indicator on it that is fairly useless as it comes on every single time you turn the mouse on. I have found that one day my mouse will simply jerk around on the screen, and then I change the batteries. Not a big deal.
