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Logitech MX 610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless Mouse | 
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| Brand: Logitech
Category: CE
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $59.98
You Save: $0.01
Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 4239
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: 931571-0403
Model: 931571-0403
UPC: 097855038944
EAN: 0097855038944
ASIN: B000EXRSWG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Package Contents - Logitech MX610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless Mouse, 2.4 GHz Micro-Receiver, CD with SetPoint software, Installation guide, USB-to-PS/2 adapter, Two AA batteries | | • | Performance Laser Tracking | | • | 2.4 GHz Digital Cordless 5X Stronger | | • | Side-to-Side Scrolling & Zoom | | • | Forward, Back and Volume Controls |
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Amazon.com Product Description
At last laser precision for lefties only. The Logitech MX?610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless Mouse lets left-handed users enjoy the comfort and control of an advanced laser mouse? without compromising their natural work style.
Product Description
At last - laser precision for lefties only. The MX610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless Mouse lets left-handed users enjoy the comfort and control of an advanced laser mouse - without compromising their natural work style.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
 Lefties Smile January 6, 2009
J. Blau (Denver, CO USA)
If you use a computer and are left-handed here is your mouse. It is designed anatomically for your left hand.
Logitech makes fine products and this advanced mouse will do everything and anything you wish plus the batteries last.
J.B.
 Seems nice at first, but overall a terrible mouse. November 21, 2008
Gregory W. Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this mouse roughly a year ago when my previous mouse died and I decided I wanted to look for an ergonomic left-handed mouse. This is the only notable result I found, which unfortunately made my options pretty limited. Even with that considered, I would vastly prefer almost any non-ergonomic mouse over this one.
The mouse shape is actually very comfortable. The thumb buttons are placed extremely conveniently. The scroll wheel has a tendency to scroll a click or two further than you want, and it takes considerable practice to prevent it from scrolling while pressing the middle button. For web browsing, this was a pretty bad point (I use middle-click on links to open them in a new tab, and every time I would try and click on a link the page would scroll away from it). I was able to overcome that obstacle with a little practice, but the mouse definitely was not helping.
A much graver point is that the optical tracking for this mouse is -terrible-. On many surfaces, any attempt to move the mouse in a straight horizontal line will inevitably end in the cursor zig-zagging, slowing down and speeding up horizontally and deviating easily 200-300 pixels to the top or bottom. In other words, on these surfaces the mouse is utterly useless. (Mousepads are included in these surfaces.) On others the tracking is fine, but that simply leads me to my next point.
Even worse than the optical tracking is the reception for this mouse. I have the dongle on a USB extension cord because if I simply plug it into my tower-- which is placed immediately on the right side of my desk (with my mousing surface of course being the desk itself)-- then it fails to receive any mouse input at ALL. Even with the USB extension, placing the dongle on top of the desk, no more than a foot and a half away from the mouse itself, periodically the mouse will not respond for half a second or so, and then correct itself by moving the cursor to the far edge of the screen in whatever direction it was moving.
Frankly, for a fundamental input device this is flat-out unacceptable. On my desktop I have started using my Wacom tablet as a substitute for a mouse because it is simply more reliable, albeit less convenient. And on my laptop I frequently find myself unplugging the mouse altogether and using my track pad. Any mouse that I go out of my way NOT to use is pretty plainly unacceptable for use.
Good Attempt...poor mouse November 17, 2008
Polecatt (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been looking for a quality left handed mouse for a while. I've been using my Logitech Mx Laser w/ Bluetooth for a while. (that is a great mouse) I was very dissappointed with the MX610. For starters its not Bluetooth compatable like my keyboard other peripherals, so it takes up one of my 2 USB ports. Secondly, the thing skips seemingly loses it's signal and thats with transmitter 3 feet away!. I got so frustrated that i switched back to my old mouse. It did feel very good,(now i know how the righties felt all this time), but that doesn't really matter if it doesn't function properly.
Cool Lefty mouse but 2 in a row died after 1 day of use November 13, 2008
Tony in SF (San Francisco)
Beyond the most important feature of being made for southpaws, fit-wise this was actually a pretty good mouse for me. My hands are large enough to fit tightly into extra-large gloves, so I was concerned about whether my thumb would curl too far under my palm because of the way it's shaped.
The shape actually feels pretty natural for my left hand, so if it was a little larger (the ergonomic shape forces the tips of my fingers to the edge of the mouse buttons) it would be almost perfect for me.
Too bad I received two in a row that died after ONE day of use. On both mice, the cursor movement stopped dead for no apparent reason. All of the other features of the mouse still worked, but it wouldn't budge. I tried them both on different PCs, tested the batteries, reset the power on the mice, rebooted the PC, etc, etc, and nothing worked. I wasn't even using the software on the replacement mouse.
So either the laser itself died on both mice, or some part of the USB transceiver stick died. I returned both mice and won't buy another, unless Logitech decides to update their lefty mouse in a new model.
PROS:
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1. IT'S FOR LEFTIES. Woohoo!
2. Good fit, even for my huge hand.
3. It's not too light or too heavy
4. Pretty good placement of basic buttons
5. This mouse had perfectly smooth movement until it died. No problems with being erratic like MANY other people experienced, but then again it was always only 1-2 feet from the transceiver.
CONS:
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1. DEAD AFTER ONE DAY. Twice.
2. POINTLESS EXTRA BUTTONS.
The email and IM buttons are incredibly useless and non-programmable. Outlook and any IM app will tell me on-screen if there's a message. How often do we actually LOOK at our mouse while we're using a PC? Why would I push a mouse button for email?
3. HARD WHEEL CLICK.
The wheel "click" is extremely hard compared to any other mouse I've used. By the time you've applied a ton per inch sq. to get the wheel pushed, you've accidentally scrolled to something else.
4. MX-610 DISCONTINUED.
The right-hand MX-610 is discontinued by Logitech, according to info posted by Logitech in it's own forum. This one is out of date and will be hard to find replacement parts for, like the transceiver. Why not update the lefty version to at least the better MX-620 style?
Nice mouse, but until Logitech comes up with a better one for Left-hand users, I'll use something else.
I bought the OCZ OCZMSEQRD Desktop Size Equalizer Laser Gaming Mouse at the same time, and it works great for me. Except for the rapid-fire button, it's symmetrical - not just for right-handers. It's also wired, but the wire is long, very thin, and almost weightless. I can deal with that since it actually works very well.
If the MX-610 had only died once and the replacement worked, I'd give it 4 stars. As it is I think 2 stars is more than fair.
 Useless buttons, wireless technology subject to interference November 3, 2008
David Veksler (Texas, USA)
This is the first mouse designed for lefties that I've come across, which encouraged me to keep it despite some rather serious flaws.
From an ergonomic perspective, the mouse is great - I've been using cheap ambidextrous mice since I started computing, which is a problem because my large hands made them rather uncomfortable to use. It's great to finally have one designed for me.
That said, I have two major issues with the mouse:
It seems to be highly sensitive to EM interference: normally, the mouse has outstanding range, making it suitable as a media-center controller. However, whenever my computer is processing a lot of data, the mouse will become jumpy, sometimes to the point of being unusable. This happens both on my Windows desktop and MacBook. I am able to diminish the problem by using a USB extension cable to get it as far away from the computer as possible, but it's ridiculous that I have to do this.
Second, the additional buttons are useless. On Windows, the default functionality is very limited. The LED's and navigations buttons don't work with Gmail, Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Talk, Adium, or other software I use. On my Mac, none of the additional buttons work. The Logitech software doesn't recognize the mouse at all. I use Synergy to map my mouse from Windows to Mac, which, inexplicably, is the only way to make the Page Up/Down buttons work as page up/down buttons with my browser (very useful when they do work though.)
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