Logitech MX400, a Mighty Mouse replacement

August 6, 2007 in Apple, hardware
Tags: Apple, hardware, logitech, mightymouse, mouse, mx400

Since the purchase of my MacBook I had got an Apple Mighty Mouse too as the laptop’s companion. Also I got the cabled one, since the wireless unit was released twenty days after (how terribly kind by Apple to not announce it anywhere in any form !!)

As everybody knows How to clean your Mighty Mouse question is a popular question that comes up 20-something days you are using the device, and as everybody knows it is a real P.I.T.A. to achieve the cleaning for an elongated period of time. Many are the answers to this topic.

Personally I do follow this method:

1. take a sheet of clean plain paper
2. turn your mighty mouse upside down
3. roll the trackball on the paper
   3a. sometimes moistening the trackball is more efficient.

BUT, doing it every 10 / 15 days {I do use the mouse a lot !} was becoming unacceptable, making me loose time trying to get the best polishing possible and making myself somewhat funny in front of my office’s colleagues.

So I decided to put it at work on my home system and buy another mouse for everyday, heavy use. And who’s the best in the periphereal’s game ? To my knowledge no other than Logitech.

I dugg in their product page listing in search of a cabled, nice looking, Mac compatible mouse and my choose fell over the MX-400 mouse.

After 20 something days I am still happy about this product (you can see it in it’s beauty here) and how it feels in my right hand (the rubber surface is comfortable) … the only con is the weight, compared to the Mighty Mouse of course.

A nice touch is the availability of Mac drivers that makes the device work like follows (as usual click on the image to see it at full size):

… at insertion (or removal) time:

the main page of it’s control panel:

… here’s the detailed view of each button’s setting:

Pretty nice, isn’t it ???

logitech, mx400, mightymouse