I bought this mouse after eventually losing my temper with my Apple Mighty Mouse. The Mighty Mouse scroll wheel had a horrible habit of getting stuck and, in a misguided attempt to unstick it, I threw it on the floor. I'll save that story for another review maybe.

When I looked around, I couldn't find many options for mice compatible with mac, so this gets instant points for that alone. On getting it home and trying it out, it is a lot more robust and comfortable than the Mighty Mouse and has a nice selection of buttons that are nice and easily accessible. A particular highlight is the scroll wheel. It can either be used in a sort of locked, 'clicky' mode, where it makes satisfying clicks as you scroll, and stops you from over scrolling the area of the page you want, OR you can use it in its 'spinny' mode, where you can spin the scroll wheel with your finger and whizz up and down pages in a fun, satisfying, and utterly pointless way! You can also tilt the scroll wheel left and right to scroll horizontally which is a nice feature. As I said, I much prefer the clicky mode, but the great thing about the mouse is that it allows you to customise the settings to the way you use it and the attention paid to how the mouse feels and responds is reassuring.

The Logitech software that comes with the mouse allows you to assign the additional buttons to various functions. The software isn't necessarily required however, although it would be a shame to let all the hotkey options go to waste. I haven't used the mouse all that much for gaming, but when I have it has done a pretty good job. Again, the customisation options are pretty useful here.

My only problem with the mouse has been that one of the buttons was a bit sticky for a while, although this seems to have sorted itself out. I have had the mouse for about 3 years and dropped it on a hard wooden floor on numerous, overexcited occasions, so by all rights, it should be faring a lot worse!