Logitech VX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks | 
| Brand: Logitech
List Price: $90.55
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Rating:  333 reviews
Sales Rank: 193
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 7 x 3
nv:Device Type: Mouse
Connection Type: Cordless
Tracking Method: Laser
Buttons: 7
Scrolling Capability: Yes
Vertical Scroll: Yes
Special Features: Ergonomic
Special Features: Search Button
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: 931690-0403
Model: 931690-0403
UPC: 683728087395
EAN: 0097855039354
ASIN: B000HCRVUS
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| • | Bulk/Retail - Retail | | • | Connectivity - Cordless | | • | Color - Black | | • | Scroll Wheel - Scrolling Wheel |
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Product Description
Use the Logitech VX Revolution alloy scroll wheel to breeze through long documents at warp speed with the nearly frictionless alloy scroll wheel. Shift to precise click-to-click scrolling to navigate lists, slides, and image collections. A high-resolution sensor inside this mouse makes it the most sensitive, highest performing mouse on the market. The precision laser tracking works on almost any surface. The Logitech VX Revolution uses advanced technology to detect your current application and automatically apply the scrolling mode that best fits the task at hand. Two conveniently located side buttons let you easily move forward and back through pages on the Internet. The mouse also moves effortlessly between documents. It's never been easier to cut and paste between applications, compare documents, or check e-mail. Highlight a word or phrase and click the Search button to display results from a search engine immediately. Compact design with storable USB micro-receiver allows for easy transport. Enjoy wireless freedom with 2.4 GHz digital cordless connection. Zoom in and out of photos, spreadsheets and documents with ease.
Amazon.com Product Description
The ultimate notebook mouse.
Rev-up your notebook with the new VX Revolution?. Logitech s innovative MicroGear? Precision Scroll Wheel lets you fly through long documents at hyperspeed, or switch to precise click-to-click scrolling to navigate lists, slides, and image collections. Search the Web by highlighting a word or phrase and pressing the Search button. Effortlessly zoom in and out of photos, spreadsheets, and documents with the convenient zoom slider. New, revolutionary, hyper-fast scroll wheel A new concept in PC navigation, the MicroGear? Precision Scroll Wheel operates in two distinct modes, allowing you to scroll faster and with more precision than ever before:
Free-spin mode for hyper-fast, nearly frictionless scrolling. With a single flick, the machined alloy wheel spins for up to seven seconds, scrolling hundreds of pages or thousands of rows. Fly through long documents and instantly stop wherever you want.
Click-to-click mode for detailed navigation. An ultra-precise ratchet-scrolling mechanism allows users to move line-by-line through complex spreadsheets, step through slideshows, or travel small vertical distances in documents or Web pages.
|  |  | |  | |  | Hyper-fast scrolling
Fly through long documents at hyperspeed. Shift to precise click-to-click scrolling, to navigate lists, slides, and image collections. | | Touch to search
Highlight a word or phrase and press the Search button to instantly display results from your favorite search engine. | | High-resolution zoom
Effortlessly zoom in and out of photos, spreadsheets, and documents. | | | | | | |  | |  | |  | Performance laser
Experience pinpoint accuracy with advanced laser tracking and ultrasmooth gliding feet. | | Storable micro-receiver
Compact and portable, with robust 2.4 GHz digital cordless technology for superior wireless performance. | | Ergonomic design
Enjoy exceptional comfort with a sculpted, right-hand shape and soft-touch rubber grips. |  | | System Requirements PC - Windows XP
- Windows Vista? (requires Internet connection)
- Available USB port
- CD-ROM drive
Mac - Mac OSX 10.2.8+
- Available USB port
- CD-ROM drive
- Internet connection
Package Contents - Logitech VX Revolution? Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks
- 2.4 GHz micro-receiver
- Logitech SetPoint? software CD
- User's guide
- AA Battery
- 3-year limited warranty
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| Customer Reviews: Read 328 more reviews...
Great mouse for Macs. More useful than the Revo MX, but overpriced. September 25, 2006
Navarro L. Parker (San Diego, CA United States)
85 out of 98 found this review helpful
After using the new Revo MX and VX for about a week, I can say that the smaller VX is more useful for Macs in a couple ways. First of all, the Zoom slider on the VX can be programmed to zoom, click, adjust volume, switch application, eject a disc, or just about any other action. The equivalent thumb knob on the MX can only be set to zoom or application switch. Why this is, I don't know. But the Logitech drivers give the VX more flexibility. I also like that the VX takes just one AA battery. The MX has a sealed Lithium battery, so if you happen to run out, you must wait while the mouse recharges. With the VX, you simply pop in a new battery and you are good to go!
One shortcoming of the VX is that the much-hyped Gear Shift wheel does not automatically switch from smooth scrolling to click-by-click -- you have to manually flip a small switch on the bottom. For me, this makes the feature useless. In the middle of a long web page, I'm not going to pick up my mouse, flip it over, slide a switch and set it down again. So if you want it to automatically switch between the two modes, get the bigger MX model.
There are some nice Mac specific things: The search button bring up your Spotlight search -- NICE! You can get the forward and back buttons work better if you change the default keyboard shortcut from left and right arrow to [ and ] brackets. That way you can use forward and back in Finder windows, as well as any web browser -- really handy!
In a nutshell...
PROS
Much improved Mac OS X drivers (per application settings)
Silky smooth gliding
Incredibly accurate laser tracking (works even on high-gloss desks!)
Easy battery swapping
Very tiny USB receiver turns off the mouse when hidden away inside it
CONS
Expensive
Microgear scroll wheel pretty useless
Somewhat tiny if you usually rest your entire hand on your mouse.
Side scrolling is very slow on Mac, even at maximum setting. (you are best off just turning it off with the driver.)
Sweet Little Rodent December 21, 2006
James Cooper (Pennsylvania)
42 out of 45 found this review helpful
If you've used Logitech mice, you know most of the stuff you need to. The VX Revolution is a neat little mouse that is small enough to take with you, and large enough to replace a desktop mouse if you want to. It isn't one of those tiny travel mice though, so if space is limited in your laptop case you might want to consider something else.
Insert the included AA battery, plug in the tiny USB receiver, and you're off to the races. If you want to use many of the additional features, like horizontal scrolling, zooming, search button, or to set the speed and acceleration, you need to install the Setpoint software. The included CD has what you need for Windows. Mac users will need to download it from the internet.
When not in use the receiver tucks neatly away inside the mouse. When you put the receiver away it shuts the mouse off, and when you remove it, the mouse turns on. There is also a small power button, should you choose to leave the USB plugged into your PC. According to the power meter, the single AA battery will provide 120 days of use. Time will tell how accurate that is.
As far as price goes, you probably can get a mouse with comparable features for a lot less money, but if you don't want to screw around, you won't likely be disappointed with this product.
One little problem is easily corrected. When I used the mouse the first time, I found that scrolling was pathetically slow in some windows (IE6), and didn't work at all in others. What you have to do is go into Setpoint, choose scrolling options, select Internet Explorer, and uncheck the box to "allow Super Smooth Scrolling", and you're back where you should be. I hope this saves others from the frustration of having to search through the Knowledge Base, or calling tech support (which for Logitech mice is NOT toll-free).
So far, I am pleased with this purchase...
Who rates a mouse! October 27, 2006
M. Hochberg (Gaithersburg, MD United States)
36 out of 50 found this review helpful
I feel really stupid writing a review for a computer mouse. It's just a mouse for crying out loud! But in the interest of trying to help others decide, here are my comments about this thing:
- Size is good for someone with large hands. It's not a "tiny" laptop mouse
- Scroll wheel is nice. You can set to "click" or spin freely. It's got some heft to it so if feels well built (the scroll wheel that is)
- 5 of the 7 buttons are "programmable". Left and right click are the same as any other mouse and can't be changed. The others can be set to do many things. Some of them even allow you to tell the mouse what keyboard shortcut to execute. I haven't tried that yet but if it works that would nice.
- The scroll wheel has a left and right movement to it which I didn't know about. By moving the scroll wheel L or R it will scroll across a document/photo/etc... that is wider than the screen. Very cool feature!
- the "zoom" button is not very good. Considering all the "design" that went into this thing, I would expect all the buttons to be very smooth. The zoom one is for lack of better words, cheap.
- The buttons on the side of the mouse (by your thumb - sorry lefties) are a little awkward to get to but I think once you get used to them they're fine.
- The button just behind the scroll wheel is difficult to access easily. I find myself curling my hand to get to it. No big deal either - I haven't found a good use for it yet!
- Software is very good. Very easy to use and problem free with my Windows XP Pro laptop.
Overall I gave this thing 4 stars because I thought for the money, they could have done a little better job with the zoom button. Rating it's usefulness in other categories, I'd say:
5 for ease of use
5 for comfort/ergonomics
5 for software
5 for coolness - if you can call that a category!
5 for ability to program the buttons
Maybe I should have given a 5 star rating.....
 Great Idea - questionable execution April 26, 2007
Y. Chang (Mamaroneck, NY)
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
The distinguishing feature of this mouse is the heavy metallic flywheel for scrolling. You can set it to free rotation (without clicks) mode where it will scroll on like a gyroscope flywheel, or the old standard clicky mode. As for the rest, such as shape and materials, are not entirely new from Logitech. Let's try to break it down here:
Pros:
- The wheel is actually quite useful in free-wheeling mode once you get used to it. It sorta replaces the center-click browsing feature, and I just liked the feel of a freely rotating wheel as it is very satisfying. I adjusted the mouse setting to have one line per mouse scroll. It became more manageable.
- The laser tracking feature is a definite plus as it works on all surfaces and is far more reliable than the optical mouse it replaced. The radio signal is pretty reliable too at a fair distance compared to the other cordless mice I tried.
- It uses only 1 AA battery, which greatly reduces the weight of the mouse which can be a problem. I used to have a 2AA battery mouse where the balance was horrible and it affects precision and induces fatigue (little things matter over time). The battery also lasts for a long time (I haven't depleted the first one after a month), which is no small feat by Logitech (and that they are famous for).
- The size is really not small for a portable mouse, but you can stow the transmitter away and it is probably more comfortable than any other portable mouse I tried. It may just be worth toting around for comfort's sake.
- Buttons are nice to the touch and are responsive with minimum effort. (not all mouse are like this, and it's important as it gets to you over prolonged use). However the center click and the zoom slider are not as well implemented.
Cons:
- The software. It crashed within my first restart after installation, and it was the nastiest crash I had in a while. The system totally froze where I couldn't even shut it down, CPU was running some loop task and fully loaded, and I had to use the hardware button to shut-off the machine. The software adds configurable features to the side buttons, sroolling click, scroll tilt, search button, and the zoom switch. Without it, the scrolling click is just the regular center click, tilting doesn't work, and zoom slider doesn't work. The side buttons becomes forward and back buttons, and the search button actuates a standard windows search (as opposed to possibly a page like google). I left it this way, and I think these remnant features works better than Logi software's parallels (e.g., the center click-scoll is different when you run logitech's software, and it's somehow awkward and not as responsive).
- The flywheel is a metallic wheel with rubber surrounds wrapped on it. The rubber actually became loose after a few weeks, and start showing a bit of "lumps". It's not a big deal, except it may have contributed to the stickiness of the wheel since the wheel bay is very tight.
- The wheel became sticky after just three weeks. It doesn't scroll very smoothly and will get stuck. You can also feel the bearing becoming rough instead of smooth. I am not sure if it's due to dust or the rubber surrounds getting stuck on the wheel bay, which has a VERY tight space tolerance(I opened it up to clean it, to only minor improvement). I can remove the rubber surrounds, but then the wheel will just look terrible with a deep center groove.
- The wheel in its free-mode can be hard to press as a center button. For example, if you want to center click on a link in firefox, sometimes you will end up scrolling first, because the finger would have actuated the wheel rotation much more easily. The center click really isn't as effortless as a regular mouse, even with the standard clicky-scroll turned on. (I wonder if it has anything to do with the tilt feature, in that design sacrifices must be made to accommodate two more side switches). You really have to curl your fingers and work a method where you keep the wheel stable and press it down at a certain angle. Center-clicks have become a mental and physical exercise of sorts.
- The zoom sliders really don't slide very easily. There's no feedback and requires much effort. For me, the software supplied text zooming feature really isn't that useful, and I ended up messing up the text size in my system for some reason (now many dialog windows/fields display text that's either too big or too small), even after I uninstalled the software.
- While this may not be a problem for most, but this mouse is designed so the user cannot disassemble/open the mouse easily. I attempted to clean the scroll wheel as I imagined there must have been dust trappings, which then resulted in the sticky wheel. There are 5 screws, but they all hide under the pads/feet at the bottom of the mouse. Those feet are not really removable, as they have rubberized layers that separates the adhesives from the sliding surface when you try to peel them off. So once you remove them, you either need to get new ones, or you have to stick it back on with glue, and the feet/pads would have become thinner. Not very user serviceable at all, and it was probably intentional. Yet given the fact that the wheel became sticky after just 3 weeks, and how I did find some dust trapped in the bearing and the VERY TIGHT wheel bay, AND how it actually alleviated the problem, I think it really would help if the mouse had a more user-serviceable design. Now I am stuck with mouse feet that look horrible with crease lines and have been glued back on. I imagine I will probably have to open it up again pretty soon, as the stickiness problem is developing.
- The shape: now depending on who you talk to, this can be a plus or minus. I had a biomorphically shaped mouse from logitech before (in fact it looked very much like this one). This is really not that much improved from the previous designs. You can't help feel that logitech wants you to hold the mouse a certain way, and that would be the only way that can be called "comfortable". However, putting your hand on the mouse comfortably doesn't mean you can use it comfortably. I usually ended up holding the mouse differently than the design intended after using it for a while, then I kinda wished it's more flexible as the shape gets in the way if you hold it in any way other than "intended". I actually found the classic logitech teardrop shape to be more pleasant to use.
- build quality: It's probably an [...] retentive gripe, but my mouse came a bit scratched up at the shiny bottom and the rubberized sides, and some are pretty deep. You can tell the mouse has been tossed around a little bit. With the kind of money Logitech is asking for, I think they can use better quality control. Mine may have been a singular case, but it can happen to anybody.
Overall, this mouse has great features, but some of the buttons are rendered useless if you remove the software, which really shouldn't be running at all if you value your work and want to avoid crashes. The hardware has a few gripes, and the most prominent feature--the flywheel--may become disabled/handicapped with use. It is not very user-serviceable so you can't really clean it up easily either. However, the mouse still works very well otherwise, and redeems itself with pluses such as great button clicks, long battery life, laser tracking, relatively light weight and reliable wireless transmission. [...]
 MOUSE KING August 31, 2006
Lord Chimp (Monkey World)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
The new Logitech mouse, VX Revolution, is by far the best I have owned. What's the big deal? How special can a mouse get? For one thing, this one has so much functionality and refines key features for the modern mouse. First of all, the scroll wheel on this mouse rocks. Rather than operating in staggered scrolling, this scroll wheel allows for more sensitive control - it isn't very resistant to momentum so with a little bit of force, you can scroll through a lot of screen space with one good motion. I think the scroll wheel is the best recent feature of new mice, and this scroll-wheel dominates all others. It somehow "senses" whether you need line-by-line scrolling or fast-scrolling, don't ask me how, and for the most part it works wonderfully. Also, the usual function of pressing the scroll wheel down (where you would get those up and down arrows on the screen, and then moving the mouse up or down scrolls up or down on the document) is rendered redundant by the dynamic nature of this mouse's scroll wheel. So replacing it is a really handy feature where pressing the scroll wheel effectively duplicates the effect of pressing Alt+tab (allowing you to switch through different windows very efficiently). In my work I often need to quickly cut-and-paste between different documents and this makes it very smooth and easy. Also useful are the zoom-in and zoom-out buttons on the mouse, for use with basically any software with zooming features - Adobe Acrobat for example, and IE - which is good because my eyes are horrible and a lot of newer webpages use quite small fonts. You can actually change the buttons features also, so you can make the zoom buttons do cut-and-paste (very handy) or other functions. There are also the Back and Forward buttons on the side of the mouse, which is handy as well. Perhaps best of all, there is an integrated search button on the mouse - if you highlight a word or a phrase, you can hit the search button and perform an immediate search through the search engine to which you've linked this feature. Very handy! Naturally I chose Google, and combined with the IE Google toolbar, you become a deadly searching MONSTROSITY! The mouse is super-comfortable in its ergonomics, and despite all its features, it feels _really_ small and loosely snug in your hand and all the buttons are located intuitively. Its contours are so nice you don't really even _hold_ the mouse - you just kind of rest your hand on it and when you move your hand, the mouse smoothly follows beneath. As to the connection, it's awesome. I previously had an infrared mouse that was vastly inferior to the laser-based interface with this device (it too was Logitech, actually). With a small USB connection, the signal transmits without a hitch. And it's almost stupid how far away from your computer you can sit and still move your cursor with the mouse! This actually comes in handy if you have your computer hooked up to your TV in any manner. You can sit on the couch, away from your desk, and control, fr'instance, your media center with the mouse on the side table or on a surface on your lap. Additionally, the unit only requires one AA battery rather than two, which is a big plus. Pretty crazy! I give the VX Revolution the highest recommendation possible for a mouse.
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