I might be getting old and boring, but I think I'm starting to understand mice
for productivity. Yes, it might not be the most performant mouse, but yes, it's
also very good at what it does. And that is exciting in its own way. What isn't
exciting, the MXM 4, the latest in the
dominant line of productivity mice that Logitech has released, does not come
with a USBC cable. I think that's a step too far. I think product makers kind of
towed the line with not including charging bricks with phones anymore. You know, we have enough charging bricks,
but we can use more cables. Cables are basically disposable at the quality that
they make them in. And uh the fact that there is none in this box makes me
slightly sad. You wouldn't like me when I'm slightly sad. That's all that's in
the box. We have our mouse, our dongle. I'm for miniaturaturization, but this
feels like something that's going to get lost. Especially cuz I don't think there is a spot. Oh, there is a spot. I guess
you can keep it plugged into your mouse itself.
That's an acceptable spot for it to go. So, no points lost. But let's get down
to the brass tax of it. What makes this mouse special is not its sensor. It's
not its performance. It's the fact that it is designed for your hand to fit
comfortably. It is well featured for work tasks. And it is a premium material
that theoretically should last a long time, unlike the previous MX Masters
that were disgusting after a couple months of use. Am I right? I am. This is
already a huge improvement. We got premium materials. It's kind of like a
knurled plastic. This feels like it's normal mouse material. It's going to
last a long, long time. Oh, this is heavy. How heavy is it?
150 g. I guess when you pack in all these features that some people want
into a tiny little package, it adds up. Like this aluminum scroll wheel. I
wonder how many people actually really care about that as opposed to people that are like that's pretty cool. You
can set it to have different amounts of clickiness electronically, but it also
the faster you scroll it kind of disengages the the notches and it's
fast. You can do like a,000 lines a minute. Uh so Logitech says I don't
really know what that means. I feel like you can do unlimited lines a minute. All
you do is just speed it up in software. Cool. It's rare that I start with the
scroll wheel. It's just kind of a big deal on this buddy guy. It also has a
side scroll wheel, which is very useful for productivity. If you are a gamer,
uh, look elsewhere. There's so many reasons this is the wrong mouse for you.
If you are someone who works in an office, hey, how you doing? You got
money? You want to be a a sugar mama? Back to the physical tour of the device.
It's interesting. It's sort of like a two layers of plastic on the buttons.
It's got like a gray plastic underneath and then a transparent layer on top. You
can sort of see the edges of it. So, has an interesting look. Feels like a little
bit of overengineering. Maybe the clickiness is almost non-existent. Like
it feels like you're pressing down on rubber domes. It is by design because
this is an office style mouse. You don't want to have really loud clicks unless
you're that person in your office. You can get your clicks by tapping really
hard, but like most clicks are pretty soft and subdued. Below that, we have
our wheel button uh that we can control in software. We'll get to that when we
get to it. The overall shape from the top is a fairly ergonomic one. It's not
one that feels uncomfortable to me, but it's not one that my hand yearns for. It
feels like it's going to engage the top part of my hand without really bringing
in the bottom, which is fine. It also feels quite heavy for how front heavy it
is. It's like it feels like it could kind of like run away on me. Like what?
I've been using the Keyron M5 at my desk
and that's a lighter mouse in a vertical stance and this feels significantly less
ergonomic than that. Although this feels significantly more ergonomic than most
mice that are out there. It also feels quite premium, although some kind of
mechanism or something feels like when I swing really hard, it's sort of like
bouncing around inside the mouse. I'm guessing that's the haptic feedback
that's not currently on right now doing something weird, but it doesn't feel
quite that premium. Let's go to the side where we have our big mouse scoop button
thing. That is sort of the killer feature uh of this mouse. But we have a
forward and back button, an extra button, and we have that aforementioned scroll wheel. At the front, we have our
type-C port. It is not recessed, so pretty much any cable should charge
this, which is nice. On the bottom, we have decent looking PTFE skates that'll
make for a pretty smooth gliding experience considering how heavy it is.
Then we have our onoff switch and we have our three device switching mode.
So, you can pair it up to three devices and seamlessly switch. I know that's a
big deal for some people. For me, it's not a big big deal because I prefer to
have one mouse per device that I can just lift off switch. Uh maybe if I got
used to lifting up, pressing a button, and waiting for a second, I think that
would be pretty cool. Um, but I like very quickly being able to switch
between them. You'll notice that on the bottom there
is no like mode switching. There is no going to 2.4 GHz mode uh versus
Bluetooth versus wired. That's because this mouse can only do Bluetooth. Yes,
it has a dongle. Uh, sadly, this is a Bluetooth dongle, but it is a premium
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>> All right. After what must have been the most
frustrating pairing process I've ever experienced in my entire life. I've
downloaded the software. I've connected the mouse. No. Continue pairing. I want
to pair. It's no longer connected to your computer. So, you can't actually
click connect.
Use your logic. Logitech. Big fan of needing two mice to set up one. My
device is right here.
We are finally connected to the software. Uh, and we're going through
kind of like a first use wizard. I'm not against that, especially for who this
mouse is targeting. It's not necessarily power users that really know what
they're doing. It's people that want like a productivity mouse and they want to be able to set it up exactly as they
want. From our best guess, it's pretty
similar performance to the MXM 3S. The descriptors they use are basically the
same, although there's very little information about this mouse uh that
Logitech will share with us. There might be more on their website by the time
that this mouse is actually out. The sensor in here goes up to 8,000. Wow,
that's not ideal. This is not a scientific test, but it should give us
an idea of what the polling rate on this mouse is. That's such a bummer, man. Oh,
come on. You can see that it peaks above
125, but my guess based on these numbers is that actually is 125 Hz pulling rate,
which is definitely a bit of a bummer. That's not ideal. Let's go back to the
software, though. Scroll wheel modes. The scroll wheel automatically shifts
from line by line scrolling to free spinning when you scroll faster. It is
pretty cool. You can now set a different scroll force from the point, scroll, and
press settings. Click the mode shift button to toggle modes manually. Ooh,
yeah. Yeah. Oh,
interesting. They've assigned this extra side button to sort of be a gestures
kind of thing where you hold it and move in a direction. I feel like that can't
end well. I'm not a big fan of that side button. That's okay. All right. Now, we
get to the interesting stuff. The haptic sense panel. That is this side button.
Push the button to open the action ring. Okay. Okay. You have all these different
options. Play. Pause. Windows Explorer,
Emoji, Windows Screenshot, Logi Options
Plus, Ask Perplexity. Oh no, we have our
AI tools panel. Oh wow, we have G chat GBT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Co-Pilot.
Wow, four AIs at the push of a button
and then a slight push over and then a click of another button. Incredible. I'm
being a little bit sardonic. Uh, this kind of stuff really isn't my bag, baby.
If this is something that excites you, great. And you can kind of see it
working. You can also download other configurations for specific software so
that it's context specific on on what pops up, which makes it even cooler.
Here's the problem. Look at the screen. Log in to install plugins. If you want
to customize what this wheel does, you
have to log in to Logitech.
I think that is a little absurd. I don't
want an account just to change the controls of this hardware that I bought.
We're now at the real options, which is great. I can customize my buttons, get
them do a whole bunch of stuff. You can assign the hold and moves, task views.
This is quite thorough amount of reassignment, which is pretty cool. You
can even add applications to the specific buttons. Pretty cool. You can
change the scroll wheel stuff. You can
invert or standard scrolling force. Let's go 100%. So I get that nice sort
of clicky. Smooth scrolling. You can turn on by default. So you don't have to
like really rip to get there. With smart shift, you can actually turn on and off
that uh mode where the scroll wheel will let itself go uh when you rip really
fast. I like the tactility of the little notching. So I think I'm going to turn
it off. And I don't often scroll through thousands of lines of code. I'm going to
keep it off. The thumb wheel has fewer options. You can only change the speed
and the direction. So cool. Haptic feedback. Haptic intensity. Hi baby.
There is an actual clicking action. So this pad will click in. It's not like
the touchpad on the Steam Deck where it has such good haptic feedback. You think
it's clicking, but it's not actually clicking. But then if you hover over things, it vibrates a little bit as if
it was a click. It doesn't feel as tight as high-end devices haptics like a PS5
controller or the Steam Deck even. But it's it's neat enough and it certainly
indicates when you're over an item. So I think you would probably get pretty good
if you were using it pretty fast, even if you weren't staring at it to know
which direction you were in. So I think that the haptic feedback does its job.
It does note here that if you have the higher settings, it uh increases the
battery usage. So maybe maybe I'll go back to a lower intensity. Yeah, the
more I play around with this, the more I uh want subtle. All right. Enable haptic
for app plugins. Install plugins, find
more from marketplace. I guess this is pre-release software. So by the time
this comes out on September 30th, there might be more things, but right now it's
only Photoshop, Lightroom, and Zoom. This is cool. This is what I wanted to
see. You can reassign all of the parts of the action wheel here. You don't
necessarily have to do it plugin by plugin. This actually like could be fun
if you were the right audience for this. I actually think this is pretty pretty
neat. There's other ways to accomplish what that's doing, but this is a
possible tool in your toolkit. We don't need to spend a bunch of time playing
games with this mouse. It's not designed for that. It's designed for
productivity. If you are excited about this mouse, you're excited about this
mouse. This is not a high performance
mouse. And I think that Keyron is kind of coming for Logitech and this sort of
premium product uh by offering similar
feature sets with way better performance. It doesn't have the haptic
wheel, but like I said, there's a million ways to sort of add macros to
your workflow or shortcuts and stuff. And so, I don't think that this is as
killer of a feature as Logitech wants you to think that it is. But maybe
you're looking at that and or maybe you have like less mobility in your left
hand. So, having more tied to your right hand is something that's really
excellent for you. And I don't want to yuck your yum. I want to yum your yum.
You know what I'm saying? I don't think this is the best job Logitech could have
done with this mouse. I think it is a huge improvement in terms of build materials and quality over the MX3 and
3S. I think the shape is pretty darn nice and like it's a striking mouse. I
think that the the kind of transparent plastic over it is actually kind of a
cool touch and depending on the lighting in your environment, I think this could be a pretty cool looking mouse. It's a
shame it only comes in corporate approved colors of gray and white uh in
different shades. And I think that if you're someone that has an MXM and
you're like, I need a new one. mine's falling apart or you've been eyeing it,
this is a good option. But when the Keyron M6 is out there, uh, or the M7 if
you like that shape, uh, that is just a way higher performance mouse with a lot
of the same features minus the haptic touch, which for me isn't a big deal. I
don't think that this is worth the $120 asking price. I think it's nice that
they didn't have a significant price increase from the 3 series to the four.
We live in a time where the price of 5-year-old electronics is going up, not
down. And that's a huge bummer. So 120 bucks isn't necessarily an unfair price
for this, but personally, if I'm looking for a mouse for my productivity, I'm
going to look at Keyron between $40 and $70 and you get a much more performing
mouse even at that $40 price. Logitech, I think if you want to capture my heart,
which I don't think you do. This is not the mouse that you're making for me. I
think it's time to make something in this shape with these features that
doesn't sacrifice on performance. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you're looking at this
mouse and you're like, "This is the coolest mouse I've ever seen." And if that's you, let us know in the comments.
And if that's not you, let us know in the comments. And if you are either of
those categories, why don't you keep watching Short Circuits like the time I
unboxed the M5, which I'm still currently using on my desk. I freaking
love that mouse. That's a vertical mouse, but it also is a good indicator
of what the M6 would be like, which maybe you want us to unbox on short
circuit. Let us know that below. If you want us to unbox an M6 or an M7, we can
do that. Just uh just comment below. You know what I'm saying?