B. Boczulak—January 10, 2017
I’m usually not one to spend more than $50 on a computer accessory, but it was the holidays and I figured I would treat myself to a computer related goodie. Also, it was about the time when my cheap HP mouse began to look out of place amidst the rest of the nice things on my desk. I set out looking for an ergonomic, attractive, yet technical mouse for use at my desk in my bedroom. I considered Apple’s Magic mouse as it was attractive, but it didn’t fit into my other two requirements. Then, I discovered the Logitech MX Master. From the reviews on Amazon it seemed as if it was exactly what I was looking for. The idea of a large, ergonomic mouse that looked good sold me on the device immediately. I waited eagerly for the mouse arrive, and then by the magic of Amazon Prime, there it was two day’s later – in my mailbox. Initially, I was impressed with how great the packaging was, but on a $75+ mouse, that is what I would expect. I ripped through the packaging and heading straight for the mouse. I set it down on my mouse pad and slowly placed my hand on the mouse. I immediately knew that this mouse was special. It felt so comfortable and so natural in my hand. I began clicking the mouse and scrolling. The clicks of the mouse are unbelievably satisfying and crisp and the scrolling experience is like no other mouse on the market. Logitech has this technology called SmartShift where if you scroll the mouse very rapidly, the mouse will go into free scrolling mode to allow for faster more fluid scrolling, but if you are moving the scroll wheel normally, it will stay in the traditional ratchet mode. You can shift between the free scrolling mode and ratchet scrolling mode by using software or by clicking the button below the scroll wheel to toggle it manually. Having a horizontal scroll wheel felt weird at first but now it’s second nature and feels natural. The thumb rest button is not very useful to me as I often forget it is there, but maybe that is just because I haven’t played around with the Logitech Options software’s customization enough. The connectivity options are nothing new from Logitech (you can use the USB dongle or Bluetooth), but what impressed me the most was the ability to have the MX Master connected to three devices simultaneously via the toggle on the bottom. This feature is handy if you use multiple machines or dual boot OS’s on the same machine. Overall, I am very impressed with the quality and functionality of the Logitech MX Master and recommend it to anybody looking for a well made professional computer mouse. Read more
RyBan—May 15, 2015
Update to this, application specific settings have been added! Perfect! 👌 I'm only giving this 3 stars because the title that came up when I moused over it said "its okay", which sounds better than "i don't like it". I'd say I'm in the middle on this. I just received the mouse today and it is INCREDIBLE, but seriously lacking some features for power users. I have been a fan of Logitech mice since using the Revolution Mouse. I then upgraded to the Performance MX and have been faithfully using it for the last 4 years. I am a programmer, graphic artist, video editor, and all around IT person. I have plenty of reasons to use different settings in different applications, this is why I LOVE these mice. That said, let me get into the strengths and weaknesses of the mouse. The adaptive scrolling on the MX Master is what I've been needing for a long time. It will go from slowly click scrolling to the hyper scroll simply by flicking the wheel, you don't need to press a button to switch between the modes now! The gestures are pretty cool, I've always been a heavy user of the thumb button on the Performance mouse, I really like that you can use the gesture button as a button but then couple it with mouse movements and you get 5 different actions out of the one button. One action is just from clicking the button, the other 4 are from holding the button and moving the mouse up, down, left or right. You can also truly customize all of the buttons on the mouse to do anything else you want, it looks like you can add a key combination to almost any of the buttons I'm torn on the thumb scroll as there are applications I use where I could use side to side scrolling, but then in other applications it would be great to be able have different options available. This is where I'm torn on the mouse. The software it uses, Logitech Options, doesn't have any application specific settings! I'd love to be able to use the thumb scroll to be able to switch tabs in chrome but then scroll side to side in my editors, photoshop or excel. There are NO application specific settings like have been available in the Performance MX, Anywhere MX, revolution and the previous high end Logitech mice. For a $100 mouse, its crazy to think they would simplify the software so much that you can't set application specific options. Overall I'm going to keep the mouse in hopes that thy will release a software update to fix this. I understand that Logitech wants to make it simple, but no one buys a $100 mouse for the simplicity of it. If someone wants simple they would buy a basic mouse. If someone wants customization they buy the top of the line mouse from a proven company. Also note that unlike the Performance mouse, this one only has a 1 year warranty. I replaced my performance mouse several times due to the left click button double clicking when I pressed it. It was reassuring to know that Logitech stood behind their product with such a great warranty, but what would you expect from a $100 mouse? I guess you shouldn't expect it on the latest model as it only has a 1 year warranty. This is a huge disappointment, I should have read up on it more. Overall though, the tracking on the mouse is great, the adaptive scroll is awesome, it is more light weight than the performance mouse and I'm happy that I don't have to hack the software to be able to use keyboard combinations on any buttons like I had to on the Performance mouse, but please give us power users what we need - application specific settings!! Read more
