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Filed under Thoughts on March 4, 2008 by Chris LoSacco

Searching for the Right Mouse

I use (and love) a MacBook Pro at work and home. At work, my desk setup centers around an external monitor, so I wanted an external keyboard and mouse. Early on, I tried Apple's Wireless Keyboard, on a recommendation from Avi, and it was great. Very easy to type, very comfortable and, best of all, wireless via Bluetooth.

But finding a good mouse was a different story. At first, I stayed with a wired mouse, for two reasons: (1) weight -- wireless mice are typically heavy with battery weight -- and (2) lag. I sometimes do design work, and I can't have the mouse pointer lagging even a little bit. The wired mouse was okay for a long while, but the wire started to bug me, and just like that, I started looking around for good wireless mice.

At first, I was looking only at Bluetooth mice. Rich let me try his Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000, which worked well for a few weeks, but lagged every so often, and was bordering on being too small. It also didn't reliably wake up my computer, because the radio would shut off automatically. That was annoying.

I was telling Rich about this and he suggested that I try Logitech's VX Revolution. I've always liked Logitech's mice, and he said this one specifically was very nice. It uses a USB dongle, but it has a storage mechanism inside to hide it away when not in use, and since I don't regularly use all of my USB ports, I gave it a shot.

Long story short: it's pretty awesome. Very smooth, very lightweight, no lag whatsoever, scroll wheel that switches between click and no-click styles, and a comfortable, not-too-big-but-not-too-small size. There are also a bunch of little touches, like the fact that when you store the dongle in the mouse, it turns off; when you eject it, the mouse turns back on, so it's instantly ready to go. Awesome.

I'd highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a high quality wireless mouse.

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