Dozer wrote:
Is
this the new model of the Logitech Revolution MX? My google results showed it looked a lot like that.
I've a glass desk at home and it took me a while to finally find a mouse that worked on it flawlessly, which is the previously linked mouse's cheaper, country cousin: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/mice/devices/anywhere-mouse-mx I tried a few others that claimed to work on glass but didn't, without lurching around in fits.
I've no idea how it compares to the Logitech Revolution MX. I was thinking of getting the Performance MX for home and bring my home mouse to work (since my work one sucks), but if you guys are referring to the Performance MX mouse as being not-so-hot, then I may have second thoughts. If you are, what is bum about it?
Jophiel wrote:
I haven't tried the Performance MX so I don't have an opinion on it. It looks, ergonomically, very similar to the Revolution. I'm just very happy with the feel of my Revolution and so go through the effort of fixing it rather than replacing it.
The Performance MX is a distinct downgrade from the MX Revolution in several key respects. Now don't get me wrong, there are a couple glaring flaws with the MX Revolution, noteably the lack or an easily replaceable battery, the actual wireless radio inside tends to conflict with bluetooth networks, and there are newer sensor technologies that were not available at the time it was made that should be in a Revolution Version 2, but the Performance MX isn't that mouse.
I have 2 main problems with the Performance MX. The first is that they screwed with what I would argue to be the absolute best, most ingenious scroll wheel on a mouse of all time. Instead of having the option for an automatically sensing shift into free spinning flywheel mode like the MX revolution had, the Performance MX forces you to hit a button each time you want to shift. I can see some people would like that better, but I found it incredibly annoying, and there is no reason it couldn't be an option to work either way. The second main, and unforgivable problem, is that they took cost cutting to extreme measures on what was supposed to be their flagship wireless mouse. If you compare the performance MX and the revolution MX side by side, the Performance MX looks, feels, and is cheaply made. The plastic is flimsy, the finishes are lower grade materials, the whole thing is needlessly larger to accomodate cheaper bulkier components, and the flywheel is now a simplified cheap trinket that doesn't work half as well as the origional one. I will admit that the wireless radio inside the performance MX is much more stable, and the darkfield sensor does lend itself to better mouse tracking and gets rid of that annoying hitch tendancy that the MX revolution sometimes shows, but other than that, it really is a major downgrade. So is the gamer version with the 6 extra buttons that I can't remember the name of off the top of my head.
Either way, I was really dissappointed.