Logitech Wireless Mini Mouse M187, Ultra Portable

Small without being too small; smooth and quite. Perfect to pack for trips.
After a (long) while, however, the wireless dongle will act up or stop working.
Still would buy it again, …and again!

It’s small enough to fit in the computer storage area. Would be great for kids hands. Too small for my husband but fine for my size hand.

Over the past 8 years I have bought 3 of these mice. With daily (very) heavy use each has lasted between 2 to 3 years for me. Towards the end, they still work, but long click and drag (with one or both buttons) seams to stop working for me. Battery life with my heavy daily use is about 4 to 6 months per battery (using a single AAA alkaline battery). I never use the switch to turn my mouse off unless I put it into my laptop bag for travel (not very often). I notice that when the battery starts to get low, the mouse movement on screen and clicking response starts getting intermittently erratic. All is good again once a new battery has been inserted. This mouse works great, has a nice feel, and is nice and small to stash away in my laptop bag when I travel. The little USB dongle is hardly noticeable while plugged into the USB port on my laptop. The mouse has a nice little cubby hole for storage of the USB dongle under the battery cover when you want to store the mouse (nice touch so you don’t lose the USB dongle when you store your mouse).

I’ve read some previous reviews regarding this mouse. I’d like to address some of these (my opinion). This mouse appears to be a legitimate LOGITECH mouse. Yes, it’s made in China. So what. Lots of stuff is made in China. Some great products, some not so great. It all depends on who the company is and what factory is making it. About the size and ease of use of this mouse. Sorry but keep in mind this is a SMALL mouse. It does not handle or feel like a regular size mouse. Not working right… the LED sender and receiver used in most mice these days varies from mouse to mouse model. Each react slightly differently when used on different flat surfaces. Some don’t like shiny table tops, some work better on one colour surface or another, some work better on different surface textures. You need to find the best “mouse surface” for the mouse you’re trying to use. That being said I found this one works OK on most surfaces I tried. It works excellently on any old fashioned “mouse pad” I’ve tried it with. Right now I am simply using right on a naked synthetic off-white table top with no issues. Regarding the comments about quality and not lasting long. We need to be realistic ! Come on for this price? Do you expect this very low cost wireless mouse to last as long as a more expensive name brand mouse ? You need to compare apples to apples. For this price, to me, this is an excellent functioning mouse that lasts longer than I would expect for what I paid for. Same as if you bought a low end budget import car and expect it to function and last as long as a high end model from one of the big 3 North American car makers.

So in closing, I am very pleased with this mouse. I am now on my third of the same one, and when this one stops working right after a few years of heavy daily usage, I will buy another one of these again. I also want to comment that this review was made voluntarily without being asked nor paid for. I do not, and neither does any relative or anyone I know work for Logitech or Amazon. So this was totally an independent user review. I hope that my time making this review helps someone else.

This mouse does not have a large footprint and is easy to maneuver. I’ll never be able to trackpad as quickly and deftly as I can with this mouse.

I was hoping that the mouse would be more of a pale pink. It was more red than pink. Just saying. I haven’t tried it out yet.

To move this mouse, not only won’t you have to move your fist, you won’t have to move your arm either. Instead, you can move your mouse with just the gentle motion of your fingers.

While that’s amazing, this mouse unfortunately won’t last very long when you move it, because it uses a skinny AAA battery instead of a fat AA one.

The buttons are very light to click but have a definitive click with consistent and predictable force.

The scroll wheel is resistant to up and down motions and therefore bad for web scrolling, but it’s soft to click so you can scroll that way instead. This compared to some other Logitech mice where the scroll wheel is so sensitive that pressing it often undesirably scrolls a bit as well.

The sensor feels like the standard Logitech cheapo mouse sensor, which means it works very well on virtually any non-glass surface, including soft and uneven surfaces. It has adequate precision for all tasks but competitive gaming.

The shell’s entirely made of hard plastic, with no synth rubber on the sides at all, which I like but other people may not.

It uses its own 2.4Ghz radio receiver and doesn’t work with Unifying, so it takes a USB slot on its own. No Bluetooth either. Direct LoS with receiver is recommended to prevent sluggishness.