Logitech MX620 Cordless Laser Mouse (Black)

I've always liked the form factor of Logitech mice, so I was going to buy a Logitech mouse; I just wasn't sure which one. Since this mouse was going to be for work, I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg on it, and I didn't need too many bells and whistles. I wanted a good sturdy wireless mouse with a long battery life and two thumb buttons. This mouse delivers in all of those areas. The MX620 has the same great fit in my hand that I've come to know and love from Logitech mice I've purchased in years past. It's built sturdily, and the batteries help give it the nice weight that's light enough not to strain my wrist but heavy enough not to float around at the slightest touch. All of the buttons are programmable, which is good for me, since I don't have much use for a "search" button next to the left click. The hyper-scroll wheel is an excellent concept, but the execution could be slightly better - it takes a bit of getting used to. Fortunately, if you don't like the free wheel, you can always just flip the switch on the underside and it'll act like a "normal" scroll wheel. It's a wireless mouse, so if you game with it, you'll notice that after not moving for a certain amount of time, there's a (barely noticeable) response time - this is true with all wireless mice (it's a battery-saving feature) but with this one, it's a lot less noticeable than with others I've used. Overall, it's an excellent mouse that I use without even thinking about - at a price I hardly had to think about too.Pros:+ Sturdy build; solid buttons let you know when you've clicked them+ Hyper-scroll wheel with switchable mousewheel mode+ Excellent design, feels great in my hand+ Never have to think about its movement - it just works+ Battery life is excellentPotential Cons:- Some may not like the free scroll wheel - sometimes a little too "free"- Wireless mice aren't great for gaming due to wake-up time- (I actually can't think of any other potential cons!)

This is one of the best mice I have found to work well on Mac.I've been using Mac now for several years after being a lifelong Windows user. I had been using the Apple bluetooth wireless mice and in general I liked them, but after a while they would start acting up. It would become very difficult to right-click or the scroll ball would get dirty and start sticking. The dirty scroll ball is easy to fix (just clean it) but the right-click issue would really become a problem. I ended up going through probably 4 or 5 of these mice before I decided to ditch it and try something else.I then did some research online and ended up buying quite a few more mice. The first was a Microsoft bluetooth mouse. It took a bit of "hacking" to get it working on Mac but eventually it paired up but I didn't like the performance at all. It was very laggy and unprecise.After more research, I then ordered the bluetooth mouse from Razer. Razer is very well known as the makers of some of the best mice for gaming. Very precise and accurate. But, they are a bit expensive. I ended up ordering two of these based on the great reviews (one for my Mac Pro and one for my laptop). These turned out to indeed be very precise and accurate but they had an irritating trait. If you let it sit still for just a couple seconds (and I mean only 2 or 3 here), when i went to move it again it would have a slight delay in responding and thus the mouse pointer would end up jumping. I found this extremely annoying and made it very difficult to use. I contacted Razer about this and after a few email exchanges and testing on different computers (I tried on a total of 6 different Macs all with the same experience), they told me this was due to it going into a "power saving" mode to make the batteries last longer. I told them this was ridiculous and this should only happen maybe after a couple minutes of sitting still. Not just a couple seconds. They told me they'd bring this up with their engineers.I then decided to give up on bluetooth as nobody seems to make bluetooth mouse that responds well with the exception of Apple but their mice have different issues.So, I then tried a Microsoft wireless mouse that uses a USB dongle instead of bluetooh for wireless communication. This mouse turned out to also have bad delay problems.So, finally I decided to give Logitech a try and ordered this mouse (MX620) from Amazon. The same day I also ended up going to a local big box store and picked up the Logitech VX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks as it was on sale. The VX Revolution is very similar to this mouse but it is marketed as a "notebook" mouse and is thus a bit smaller. I figured I'd use the VX for my laptop.So, I tried them both. First I tried this mouse from Amazon and it worked great! Very responsive and accurate. No delays. No lag. It was just perfect. I was so relieved to have finally found a decent Mac mouse!I then decided to try the VX Revolution and it worked just as well as this one (MX620). But, I liked it a bit better due to the "feet" on it. They are made out of some kind of very slippery material and it glided much smoother over my hard plastic Everglide mouse pad. The MX620 has feet that aren't quite as "slippery" and thus takes a bit more effort to get it to start moving. The result ended up being that the VX was better for making very small movements.So, I love both the MX620 and the VX Revolution mice. They are both excellent mice for Mac users out there. They also make an Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse which also sounds great (same slippery feet as the VX Revo but is a full size mouse). But, I didn't want to give it a try as it is rechargeable and thus requires a charging base to be on your desk and you have to remember to keep putting the mouse back in the charger. For me, I didn't want the extra desk clutter and yet another power brick to deal with. I'd rather have a mouse that uses normal batteries which these two mice do.