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Logitech MX 610 Cordless Laser Mouse 931350 0403

The Logitech MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse redefines performance with ultra-precise laser tracking on more surfaces and interference-free 2.4 GHz digital cordless technology. As the world’s first smart mouse, it extends battery life by turning on and off with your computer, in sync with your PC, detects and eliminates wireless interference and alerts you when the batteries are low. Easy to configure, email and IM buttons light up when you receive new messages from selected friends and associates. Volume controls add convenience, forward/back buttons allow speed browsing on web sites and documents and the tilt wheel plus zoom is perfect for viewing digital photos and spreadsheets.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars The MX610
The MX610 cordless mouse, is the greatest its worth the extra cost over a traditional wire type mouse. The added features make it a great tool.

1 Star Garbage with pretty LED’s
If you’re a gamer or a graphic designer, look elsewhere. The power saving function of the mouse makes it shut off until it feels motion. So if you’re not using the mouse for just a little bit, it powers down and waits for movement.

It’s a very ergonomic mouse, with responsive buttons and nice LED indicators, but if it can’t let you move around the screen when you need it to it’s not much more than a (bad) paperweight. Move along.

3 Stars Gets interference from wi-fi and drains batteries
I have used this mouse for just under two years now. It is good ergonomically and has a good selection of buttons. But, if I were to get a chance to change what I had bought, I would. Reasons why? Poor battery life. I usually change batteries a minimum of once a month. Also, occasionally gets interference from my wi-fi network which makes the mouse almost impossible to use. Also, the mouse lags somewhat too. A bit heavy for gaming as well and the annoying blinking red battery light is too much as well.

2 Stars Too Much Trouble
I purchased the MX 610 Logitech mouse just under 2 years ago. The original device lasted about 9 months and was replaced by Logitech. It had serious functionality issues, i.e., cursor jumping all over the screen, the downloaded software continually resetting itself to defaults that I neither wanted nor expected, programmable buttons working only part of the time. I thought these problems were due to receiving a lemon, but after getting the replacement and within a shorter time, the new one started acting the same way. Anyone who likes to play games will understand how infuriating it can be when you can’t get the cursor to a certain point, or when dropping and dragging items like photos you need to pick the mouse up and move it because you’ve run out of desk space to move it far enough. This mouse replaced a Logitech Optical corded mouse that I loved, except for the cord. I just ordered a new Logitech Optical wireless mouse, and hopefully that will be better than this Laser version that I have absolutely no faith in. Also, getting a Laser cordless mouse requires stock in a battery company as this one ate them up pretty quickly

4 Stars Comfortable, well designed mouse but some flaws hinder it’s potential
I’ve had this mouse about a month now. I’ll try and point out some things I feel other people have missed.

I should start with a short description of how my computer is set up on my desk, since a lot of people leave that out. I’ve got my tower on the left of a wooden desk and it’s roughly 3ft away from where my mouse is located to the right. I’ve got a Netgear WNR854T Wireless-N transmitter (I would not recommend NetGear products to anyone) on top the computer case. Why does that matter? because of the wireless USB receiver for the mouse. Initially I had it plugged into the back of my computer out of the way where it couldn’t get accidentally smacked by anything. However that caused severe cursor lag and unresponsiveness. I moved the receiver to the front of my tower and the response improved but still suffered from lag, especially while gaming. I searched all through the Logitech, and other, forums looking for solutions but all I usually ran into were the same complaints with little help offered other then insults hurled at Logitech’s poor design. I tried switching mousepads thinking maybe it was the laser not tracking, but once again it had little effect. Finally I ordered a USB extension cable for $[...] off Amazon.com and used it to move the USB receiver to directly in front of the mouse and now I haven’t had any problems at all. So like all things wireless the complaints about poor wireless performance come down to the environment, what works well for one person may not work at all for the next.

On the software side there are a few irritating problems. The Logitech “SetPoint” software is a all-in-one driver pack for all their mice and is about a 47MB package, no option to download only the drivers for your mouse. There is also a bug that occasionally occurs for some when you open Microsoft Outlook, or ActiveSync, the active window begins to flash. It seems to occur more frequently if I use the dedicated e-mail button on the mouse itself, but it has also happened when I open Outlook by the usual double clicking. It’s extremely irritating as once it starts the only way to stop it is to restart your computer. If you don’t, your open window and desktop will flash and interrupt either your typing or close whatever menu you opened by right clicking. Bear in mind it only happens occasionally. Logitech has no fix for this as of yet, nor do I suspect they ever will as it seems to have happened with the last several versions of their “setPoint” software.

Also, the “SetPoint” software does not seem to overwrite the mouse setting in the windows “Control Panels” for speed settings. Even though I had the pointer speed turned up high in the “SetPoint” software the mouse settings in “Control Panels” remained set at medium and it did seem to cause a few odd speed problems with the pointer. I don’t recall seeing anyone else mention this, so maybe I’m just really lucky…

Overall I really enjoy the mouse despite the flaws, I have rather long fingers and it’s very comfortably set-up. You can click on either side of the mouse from about the middle on up and it activates the button which is great when you’re scrolling with the wheel as you can just tilt your finger a little and click either right or left next to the wheel, it cuts down on finger strain a lot especially if you’re like me and spend a lot time scrolling through webpages.

It also has an off switch on the bottom. I know that might not sound like a big deal to some, but being able to turn it off when you’re not using it, unlike other wireless mice, actually turned out to be a bigger deal for me then I thought it would. I’ve seen people complain about the “auto-off” feature not working like they thought it would, but how hard is it to turn the mouse over and hold a button for two seconds?

The last mouse I had was a Microsoft IntelliMouse 2.0 It was a good mouse, but the shape of the MX610 is far more comfortable and now that I seem to have gotten the tracking problems, despite my initial misgivings, I don’t plan on replacing it anytime soon.

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