Mice have always been a really special topic for me.
Ever since I was a kid I wanted a Logitech mouse. Specifically, the G502. Logitech always had quality in my books – and I always trusted them with every peripheral imaginable. They’ve proven themselves that, even with gimmicks, they never fail delivering timeless masterpieces.
I gave up on that mouse, went over to my pile of Electronics and found a Revolution MX. The thing that intrigued me was what I thought was the horizontal scroll wheel, which it wasn’t.
It was my favorite mouse, but that functionality alone crippled me and made me wish getting a brand spanking new Apple Trackpad no matter how much it set me back.
Whatever, I said, while finding alternative drivers. This mouse is from 2006, do you expect macOS Sequoia to support it? Ironically, it did support it better than Windows did since Windows doesn’t have an equivalent to SteerMouse. Steermouse has the ability to map a key as an action, like scrolling, but I couldn’t remap the hardware so the button that I expected to be middleclick actually switched the scroll mode from Ratchet to Free
Even then – It felt nice to have something to use to natively scroll while using programs like Bitwig Studio or Final Cut Pro where timelines are the main focus. I don’t want to fiddle around trying to find keystrokes to scroll horizontally, so this was something that helped establish my workflow quickly.
It’s used. Forgive the aging.
One key difference you can tell between these two is how the horizontal scroll wheel is real on the Master. The Revolution’s position is frankly better but it comes with the compromise of it being designed for ‘flicking’, not for continuous holding.
This, on the other hand, is modern, works universally and also doesn’t require 3rd-party software.
This mouse was given to me by my dad since he bought a Master 4.
Epilogue
This mouse isn’t a very significant jump from the Revolution MX. It tracks more precisely, it has every little button and tweak I need and it’s not bad. That’s all that matters to me at the end of the day.