Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsGREAT mouse, especially for creative or professional work.
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2021
So let me just start by saying that I have no particular sense of loyalty towards, or on the other hand, aversion to, Logitech as a company. I’ve owned many different Logitech products over the years, some of which I’ve loved, and some of which I’ve hated. They’re hardly my favorite brand, but they’re far from my least favorite either.
I also haven’t owned a Logitech mouse in YEARS, and never owned any of the previous models of MX Master. So I think I can offer a pretty objective perspective regarding THIS SPECIFIC mouse, as I can’t compare it to the MX Master 2S, for example. All I can compare it to is what I personally look for in a good mouse.
I bought this for use with my desktop M1 Mac mini. I also own a gaming PC, but I don’t intend to use this mouse with my PC. For PC gaming mice, I’m a Corsair guy.
Rather, I bought the MX Master 3 for my Mac specifically because I use my Mac more for creative purposes and I wanted something that’s both ergonomic and capable. I do a lot of photo editing/illustrating work on my Mac, as well as some music production, and the MX Master 3 suits all of those roles beautifully.
Out of the gate, I’ll tell you that this is an extremely comfortable mouse, at least for me. I have large hands, and I find that it fits my hand pretty perfectly. If you have smaller hands, this may not be the mouse for you, but it certainly isn’t huge and unwieldy, so who knows?
(Side rant: I’ve seen people give this mouse, and others, a low rating because they didn’t find it to be ergonomic. That’s stupid. If this mouse doesn’t work for you, that sucks, but that’s no reason to dock it points. Just return it and find something else. EVERYTHING will be ergonomic for someone and uncomfortable for someone else. I don’t rate a pair of pants 1 star if I bought them and found out that they’re too small for me. I return them and get the right size.)
This is as close to a vertical mouse as I am ever likely to get. I find the slight clockwise tilt very comfortable for my wrist, and it definitely strains my arm less than pretty much any other mouse I regularly use. Big points for that.
The scroll wheels are AWESOME, both the vertical and horizontal. The transition between the step scrolling and free scrolling feels very smooth, natural, and satisfying. It’s also very quiet.
Main buttons are very clicky and solid. The position of the forward and back buttons is great. I’ve seen people say forward and back are a little mushy, and while I agree they’re certainly not clicky, I don’t find them to be annoying or anything. I use them for Undo/Redo in a lot of my workflow, for example, and they’re just fine for such a task, clicky or not.
As for features, the Logitech software allows you to configure button assignments on an app to app basis. This is awesome, as it allows you to tailor your mouse for optimal efficiency in every app without ever having to consciously change any settings. Many other mice by many other manufacturers can do this exact same thing, yes. I’m just saying, Logitech has implemented it very well.
Flow is the other big feature, but I can’t comment on that. I haven’t used it and I highly doubt I ever will, particularly considering that macOS Monterey will be introducing this feature natively in the form of Universal Control. So yeah, I don’t care about Flow at all.
Battery life is great, and I’m very glad it charges via USB C. (Another side rant: I saw another reviewer dock points because the dongle itself isn’t USB C. Um… okay? That’s a VERY stupid reason to give it three stars. First of all, most computers still have USB A ports. Second, I don’t want to waste one of my USB C ports on my freaking mouse dongle. Thirdly, on a device that doesn’t have USB A ports, you can either: get a USB C adapter; or, even better, JUST CONNECT TO THE MOUSE VIA BLUETOOTH.)
I won’t address gaming performance, because the only thing I play on my Mac is Minecraft from time to time. That being said, the idea that you need some kind of specific “gaming” mouse for PC gaming is a pretty ridiculous one to me. Any mouse that’s sufficiently high-DPI and precise will get the job done just fine. Latency is a lot less of an issue for wireless mice these days, so that shouldn’t hold the MX Master back either. Plus, the assignable buttons would actually be pretty helpful for a lot of games. This is no 12-button MMO mouse, obviously, but, yeah. So I’m sure most people would be plenty happy playing pretty much any game on this mouse.
Anyway, this review is long enough at this point, so let’s wrap this up: This is a great mouse. One of the most comfortable I’ve ever used. Yes, it’s pricy, but when it comes to something you’ll be using every day, it’s worth spending the money for something GOOD. Logitech really nailed it with this mouse.
