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 - Ridiculously Expensive.. and now its broken..8 months ago time it was $100 + tax. OK.. should be cool enought.. its 100 bucks!!!.. I bought it. Liked it a lot.. very comfortable.. but now its in the trash.. doesnt work.. I dont know what broke it.. the receiver doesnt catch the mouse signals.. dunno whats wrong.. will buy a simple $15 mouse now.. Rating:  - What a wonderful piece of equipmentI have been working with computers for the last 20 years, and have known a number of mice. Tired with my old 5-button optical corded (however excellent)mouse, I went shopping for a programmable wireless mouse. I considered the Microsoft mice but was disappointed with the reviews. They seemed to have ergonomic problems. I finally came across the MX Revolution. After some investigation I decided to give it a try. Man, was it worth it! I have read quite a few of the reviews shown here in Amazon, but have seen no one mentioning one of the most impressive features this thing has to offer: It actually has over 10 programmable buttons (if you include the tilting wheel and the thumb scroll wheel, excluding, however, the left and right buttons which are not programmable). Now, that is impressive, but what is more impressive yet is that you can assign any of a very large number of actions/commands to these buttons, and program the mouse independently for ANY program you may be using the mouse in. It senses which application the pointer is in and automatically switches according to the configuration you gave it for that program. I spend some 12 hours a day sitting in front of my desktop, doing mouse-intensive work. This beauty will truly make my computer life easier and enjoyable, make no mistake. As to battery life, I have seen a few reviews saying that battery life is poor. I charged my mouse overnight after buying it. I have been working my butt off with it for a week and a half now - without charging it and without turning the thing off during the night - and as of this writing I still have 20% battery left, and counting. Couldn't be happier. Rating: - ComputerGeeks misleadLogitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse ComputerGeeks sent me only the refurbished (and quite dusty and dirty) mouse and USB receiver. Great. But, how am I supposed to use it without the charging dock? It is a completely useless piece of plastic. No where did it say that it would not be included. And on top of that the package did not include a Logitech CD or owners manual (which isn't that bad but they are still listed in the product description). I am extremely irritated and now I will have to spend the next two weeks I have before I go off to college messing around with extra shipping costs, returns/exchanges, my own personal time and customer service. At this point I do not plan on returning to ComputerGeeks as a customer. Rating: - I hate mice - well, I used to - WoW! An 11 button mouse!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. Rating: - Solidworks or CAD user? Then do yourself a favor and get this mouse!I work as an architectural engineer in AutoCAD and Solidworks all day. Because of the nature of my work, I do a LOT of zooming/panning. I am only 25 and I was starting to worry that I was not going to be able to keep mousing much longer without giving myself a nice pile of carpal tunnel. After trying some different mouses, including the oddball Perific, I stumbled on this mouse. All of my problems are gone. If the scroll wheel is your archnemesis on a daily basis with what you do on a computer, buy this mouse immediately, even if it puts your bank account into the negative. Zooming and panning are now effortless and much more elegant. Modeling large scale objects (corporate skylights in my case) is now a breeze. In short, for CAD users the freewheeling scroll wheel is an indispensable addition to your selection of input devices. This more than makes up for any shortcomings this mouse has. Also, you can completely disregard any reviews that complain about not enough programmable functionality in the included software. UberOptions is a free modification you can find easily on the web that more than makes this mouse as customizable as you want it to be. Do yourself a favor, and go get this mouse!
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