Logitech MX Grasp 3S for Mac overview: seven-button surprise mouse

At a look

Professional’s Ranking

Professionals

• Seven buttons, two scroll wheels
• Intuitive Mac app
• New sensor offers exact motion

Cons

•  Proper-handed solely
•  Designed for medium/massive fingers

Our Verdict

With seven extremely customizable buttons, easy intuitive vertical and horizontal scroll wheels, Mac-friendly app, and a fantastic grip for right-handed folks, the Logitech MX Grasp 3S for Mac is considered one of our most favored Mac mice and a real competitor to Apple’s extra primary Magic Mouse.

Value When Reviewed

$99.99

Finest Costs Right this moment: Logitech MX Grasp 3S For Mac

$89.99

Logitech’s MX Grasp has lengthy been the most effective mice accessible for the Mac, with the earlier MX Grasp 3 sitting comfortably on the high of our checklist of the greatest mouse for Mac for the previous few years.

That mannequin was getting a bit previous, although, and was just lately up to date with the brand new MX Grasp 3S—and now a particular MX Grasp 3S For Mac mannequin to rival Apple’s Magic Mouse that ships with desktop Macs.

Because the title suggests, this new model isn’t a radical departure and the brand new 3S mouse appears to be like nearly similar to its predecessor—which remains to be accessible at fairly a couple of on-line shops, so be sure to purchase the right mannequin. You need to discover the most recent greatest costs in our value comparability field on the high of this overview.

The 3S does function some adjustments underneath the bonnet, together with a brand new 8000dpi track-on-glass sensor that gives smoother and extra exact motion, and a brand new button mechanism that makes the clicking motion quieter and firmer.

Maybe most vital, although, is the replace to Logitech’s Choices app—which is now referred to as Choices+. Most corporations that make mice don’t trouble to supply an app for Mac customers, which implies that some buttons and options might not work correctly on a Mac. Logitech is without doubt one of the few corporations that does present a Mac model of its app, permitting us to customise the best way that the buttons work, and likewise pairing the mouse with three completely different units, together with Macs, iPads and Home windows PCs, so as to shortly swap from one gadget to a different.

The Logitech MX Grasp 3S for Mac additionally works with iPadOS.

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Buttoned up

The mouse has seven buttons, plus two metal scrolling wheels, with the primary scrolling wheel on high and a second wheel for horizontal (sideways) scrolling on the left aspect.

A function referred to as SmartShift robotically switches the scroll wheel from line-by-line scrolling to super-fast scrolling when it senses you need to scroll a lot sooner.

There’s additionally a thumb-rest that gives quick access to the buttons on the aspect and has its personal button that can be utilized to shortly activate window-management options similar to Exposé and Mission Management (though it’s annoying that the mouse is just accessible for right-handed folks).

Certainly, you’ll be able to customise a lot of the button and scrolls throughout the Logi Choices+ app.

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You possibly can click on the Shift Wheel Mode button beneath the highest wheel to manually toggle between Ratchet (used for exact navigation of things or lists) and Free-Spin modes (used to shortly navigate via lengthy paperwork and net pages).

You possibly can customise the aspect Thumb Wheel to horizontal scroll, Zoom out and in, quantity up and down, navigate between tabs, or set a keyboard shortcut.

The Again button will be custom-made to go Again, Copy, flip Quantity Down, Undo, or set a keyboard shortcut. In the identical method, the Ahead button will be set to Ahead, Paste, flip Quantity Up, Redo, or a keyboard shortcut.

Maintain the Gestures button and transfer left or proper to modify between desktops; maintain and transfer as much as activate Mission Management; maintain and transfer down for App Expose; and click on as soon as for Mission Management.

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Within the app you too can arrange app-specific customizations, with pre-defined customizations for Adobe Photoshop, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint/Groups and Phrase, and Zoom.

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Design

The fundamental strong design is unchanged from the MX Grasp 3, with a wise ergonomic form that matches the palm nicely, and a comfortable, textured floor that feels agency and comfy as you grip it.

Be aware, although, that this mouse is designed for right-handed folks. Left-handers may want to stay with Apple’s ambidextrous Magic Mouse until they’ve taught themselves to drive a mouse with their much less dominant hand.

(Absent from the Mac-specific mannequin of the MX Grasp 3S is the extra USB wi-fi adaptor, referred to as ‘Logitech Bolt’. This offers a extra security-conscious different to utilizing Bluetooth, so the usual model of the mouse is definitely barely higher worth for cash, particularly for enterprise customers who need that further safety.)

The Mac model is out there in Area Grey and Pale Grey, though the Area Grey is in actuality black.

You can even purchase the MX Grasp 3S for Mac in a $199.99 / £199.99 MX Keys S Combo for Mac bundle with different Logitech enter units: MX Keys S for Mac and MX Palm Relaxation.

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Charging

Battery life is nice, lasting for round 70 days on a full cost. You get three hours of use from a one-minute fast cost, which is helpful, and you may cost whereas nonetheless utilizing the mouse.

You cost by way of the mouse’s USB-C port on the entrance. That is leagues extra wise than Apple’s Magic Mouse, which hosts its Lightning port on its underside—that means the Apple mouse is frustratingly unusable whereas charging.

Apple’s mouse can also be one of many firm’s few remaining merchandise utilizing the previous Lightning connector slightly than USB-C. The Logitech mouse helpfully makes use of USB-C and comes with a charging cable within the field.

Value

The $99.99 Logitech MX Grasp 3S for Mac is priced the identical as Apple’s Magic Mouse, though desktop Mac customers could have acquired theirs alongside their Mac at no further value. U.Ok. prospects sadly should pay £119.99, which is £20 greater than Apple’s mouse. (The Mac and customary variations of the MX Grasp 3S are priced the identical).

If you’d like a spare mouse otherwise you’re a MacBook person who prefers a mouse to the laptop computer’s trackpad, Apple’s mouse is a wonderful alternative, however we expect the MX Grasp 3S affords extra customization and adaptability—in case you are right-handed.

Logitech does supply a six-buttoned MX Anyplace 3S for Mac mouse that extra ambidextrous.

Verdict

With seven extremely customizable buttons, easy intuitive vertical and horizontal scroll wheels, Mac-friendly app, and a fantastic grip for right-handed folks, the Logitech MX Grasp 3S for Mac is considered one of our most favored Mac mice and a real competitor to Apple’s extra primary Magic Mouse.