LOGITECH MX Master
It looks really similar to the Performance Mouse MX. It’s meticulously crafted to fit your right hand. There’s that lovely thumb-rest, which has a hidden button that lets you perform gestures when you hold it down. The new MX Master has a new thumb wheel and two more buttons right above it, too. Up top you’ve got your left and right buttons, a clickable, speed-adaptive scroll wheel (I’ll explain in a sec), and a button to release the wheel’s click mechanism, should you prefer it free-spinning instead of all clicky. The top scroll wheel doesn’t tilt side to side anymore, but you can use the new thumb wheel to scroll horizontally through things.
On the nose is a micro-USB port which you’ll use to charge this rodent, since it doesn’t use replacable AA batteries any more. And there’s a button underneath to control which device you want to use it with (you can pair it with up to three Bluetooth devices).
Using It
Be still my thumb! This thing is great. For starters, you don’t need to use a USB dongle to get connected. You can just pair it with your computer via Bluetooth Smart (as long as it’s new enough to support that protocol). I’ve only got two USB ports on my laptop, and not having one of them tied up with a mouse is very nice. Mind you, the mouse didn’t initially work at all with Mavericks on my three year old MacBook Pro, but as soon as I updated to Yosemite (which has better Bluetooth support) it worked like a charm. But there’s also still a dongle if you need one.
By downloading the Logitech Options app I can customize what each button does, which ended up being pretty sweet. I don’t scroll side to side very much, so I set the new thumb wheel to switch between tabs in Chrome. Very convenient.
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