The box says that I will get up to 8 months of battery life on this cordless mouse. I’ve only owned it for a month and all of a sudden, I don’t care if I get 8 months or not. I’ve never had a cordless mouse before and my mouse-life is entirely different now that I have one.
I didn’t realize how much of a pain in the butt that cord was. Now that my mouse is cordless, I don’t have that weird drifting that happens when I let go of the mouse. It stays put. The cord minder that I had kept the mouse from being pulled off the keyboard drawer by the cord, but there is no risk of that now. The only risk is of me dropping it.
The Logitech LX7 has the features that I refused to live without: scroll wheel and five buttons. In addition to that, there is a tilt wheel that lets me scroll side-to-side for those horribly designed websites that don’t resize for my screen or those really big photos that need editing. This mouse is also ambidextrous, so I could use it with my left hand if my right hand got sore or overworked. Another feature that I didn’t realize I’d like so much is that I can pick up the mouse without accidentally pushing the “back” button. I had trouble with that with my previous mouse and didn’t even try to choose a mouse that placed the “back” and “forward” buttons on the top of the mouse instead of the side. I actually thought that was going to be a detriment, but after a little re-training, I’ve been really happy.
I had trouble with the mouse tracking on my woodgrain desk. I had to reintroduce a mouse pad so I could get a good feel for the mouse. At first, I thought it was broken, but once I brought the mouse pad up from the dusty basement, it worked perfectly.
It has an on/off switch underneath the mouse (you can see it on the top picture). I haven’t tried to conserve battery life by turning it off, though. The eight month battery life estimate is supposed to based on leaving it on all the time and I could get more battery life by switching it off. I don’t really feel like fussing with that, so I’ll see how long these Duracells last.
So far, I really love this mouse. It’s a huge step up from my wired Belkin mouse I had before. Lets see if it lives up to its promises on battery life in a couple months.
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