Logitech Lift Mouse Review: Great Ergonomics You Can Afford

One of the best ways to explain utilizing a vertical mouse is to think about you’re shaking fingers. That’s principally the place you’ll maintain your hand in whereas utilizing the Logitech Raise. In concept, that relieves stress in your wrist because you aren’t unnaturally bending the remainder backward.

The draw back to most vertical laptop mice is that they’re formatted for right-handers solely. That’s nearly an issue even with the usual setup, however usually you’ll be able to reformat buttons and such to make left-handed operation work. However with a vertical form, that’s an not possible job as your complete mouse curves to suit your thumb and fingers. Fortunately, the Logitech Raise is available in each right-hand and left-hand codecs. However you’ll get fewer shade choices within the latter— right-hand Raise is available in graphite, off-white, and rose, whereas left-hand solely is available in graphite.

Past the brand new colours and left-hand possibility, the Raise differentiates itself in a number of notable methods. It makes use of the brand new Logitech Bolt receiver (together with Bluetooth), which the corporate says is safer and steady than the earlier Unifying dongle. However that additionally means it may well’t be paired with the Unifying dongle, so in case you’re utilizing an older Logitech Keyboard, you could want two dongles if Bluetooth isn’t an possibility.

The Raise can be noticeably smaller than the MX Vertical. That is principally a superb factor, I feel. The MX Vertical is so massive you nearly want further area in your desk to accommodate it. That further heft additionally means extra time to develop used to its unusual form. And when you’ve got smaller fingers, overlook about utilizing it.

The Raise’s smaller dimension fixes all that. It nonetheless requires extra room than the typical mouse, maybe, however you gained’t really feel such as you want a brand new desk simply in your mouse. And that additionally means it must be simpler to adapt to the brand new place. The Raise most likely additionally suits extra fingers than the MX Vertical as effectively. However when you’ve got fingers which are on the bigger dimension of medium, you could want to regulate. I’ve “medium” sized fingers and lengthy fingers. I’ve seen that with the Raise, I curl my fingers barely to correctly use the scroll wheel and clicky buttons. If I didn’t, they’d stretch past the perimeters of the mouse, and my center finger would hit the scroll wheel at concerning the midway level.

However regardless of that truth, the mouse may be very comfy to make use of. I didn’t even notice I used to be curling my fingers till I began making an attempt the Life and the MX Vertical facet by facet.

In case you’ve thought-about shopping for a vertical mouse previously, you most likely expertise sticker shock whenever you noticed the $100 to $150 worth a lot of them command. The Raise manages to shave that worth all the way down to a extra inexpensive $69. And whereas that’s nonetheless not the most cost effective mouse in the marketplace, it’s extra palatable in comparison with its ergonomic brethren.

Logitech managed to shrink the value level by actually shrinking the machine and altering out the supplies and specs some. The Raise feels much less premium within the hand than the MX Vertical, as an illustration. However in case you’ve by no means held the dearer mouse, you gained’t know what you’re lacking. And in an remoted world, the “Zen Floor” (as Logitech likes to name it) feels fantastic to me. Odd, as I’m not used to rubber-feel on a mouse, however fantastic. One draw back to all rubber is mud, which this mouse attracts like a magnet. You’ll see mud in all the photographs, regardless of efforts to wash up the machine. The excellent news is that mud is way much less seen to the bare eye than you see in pictures.

The buttons are very quiet however tactile sufficient, which might be a boon for anybody working in an workplace the place noise air pollution is a nasty factor. And the scroll wheel additionally feels rather a lot gentler, for lack of a greater phrase, with fewer click on factors. However once more, although it’s perhaps “not pretty much as good” because the MX Vertical, the scroll wheel is okay, and also you gained’t know what you’re lacking.

Once you get all the way down to it, I can solely consider two causes to not purchase the Logitech Raise. Both you don’t just like the vertical mouse kind issue, or you’ve gotten massive fingers. And in case you match into the latter class, I’d level you to the MX Vertical.

Past that, the Raise is a stellar ergonomic mouse. It’s comfy, dependable, and whereas the AA battery is annoying, I don’t truly see the additional $30 to get the MX Veritical’s rechargeable battery as a justified price. And it’s very doubtless the AA battery situation will solely come up yearly or two, which you’ll be able to’t truly say concerning the MX Vertical. That mouse wants charging each few months. You could find inexpensive vertical mouse choices on the market, after all. However they minimize much more corners in supplies and performance. They’re cheaper as a result of they’re “cheaper.” This looks like the proper center floor.

In case you’re desirous about a vertical mouse and $100 (or extra) is just too steep for you, get the Logitech Raise. It’s an excellent all-around ergonomic mouse.