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(More customer reviews)__DO__ BUY THIS MOUSE __BUT__ (a warning to Mac users)...
I am only posting this review in an attempt to save others from the hours of problems I have had... and since I think Amazon is one of the __very best__ internet 'stores' I would not like you to have to return the mouse as 'broken' simply because you can not make the MX Revolution work. Also I am rating this mouse with only 3 stars because I have wasted so much time getting it to work. The mouse deserves 4 1/2 stars but the software driver Logitech makes available deserves less than zero stars... consequently 3 stars. Logitech's software is __extremely__ limited, and __incredibly__ buggy. Do not take my word for it... read the reviews on Amazon's site about Logitech's software and go to Logitech's own forums and see all of the horrible things users have to say about the drivers.
WARNING FOR MAC USERS!!! You CAN get this mouse to work beautifully BUT...
In my hours of troubleshooting... ONLY if you are willing to purchase USB Overdrive will you be able to do this. I'm very serious and I have absolutely no business or financial relations with USB Overdrive
It is the ONLY driver that I have found that will reassign all but one of the buttons. (The 'Search' button on the top is not coded as a mouse so unless you use an app like ControllerMate that can NOT be used WITH USB Overdrive installed... you can kiss the top 'Search' button off... i.e. totally useless). And ControllerMate... though a great driver... will take you an afternoon to learn how to use it (no kidding... complex). USB Overdrive will even allow you to map the tilt-scroll wheel as buttons so you will have more 'buttons' on the top. LCC will not and SteerMouse will not... that is... you will believe that they did but the settings will not stick.
I spent hours trying to get Logitech Control Center to work... don't waste your time. LCC is the proprietary software that comes with the mouse... oh... except for in the case of the Mac driver... it does not even come on the included CD... only the PC software does... Mac users have to go to the Logitech website and download LCC. No big deal if it worked... but it does not.
Even SteerMouse's remapped button-commands do not stick and when a button is pushed it may or may not even be highlighted in SteerMouse's preference pane window. So unless you already know what button number SteerMouse will give your command... you will have to do a lot of trial-and-error (i.e. moving back-and-forth between the SteerMouse window and how it will affect the action you perform by clicking on something in the OS).
I have owned a Logitech MX 1000 for years which has been an excellent mouse, but it is no longer available from Logitech and starts at around $150 on the internet. I am a professional digital artist
I hope this review saves purchasers AND Amazon nightmares and RMAs (Return Merchandise Authorizations).
I don't recall ever posting a review before at Amazon so I hope the time I have taken to post this lengthy review helps.
I would say 'Good Luck'... but if you follow my advice you will not need it.
Enjoy!
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Product Description:
Smarter, faster, and fully-loaded, the MX Revolution gives you powerful new controls that will streamline the way you work. Logitech's innovative MicroGear Precision Scroll Wheel lets you fly through long documents at hyperspeed, or switch to precise click-to-click scrolling for navigating lists, slides, and image collections. Toggle between open documents with the convenient Quick-Flip thumb wheel, or search the Web by highlighting a word or phrase and pressing the Search button.
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