In praise of the Logitech Lift

[Starship Krupa]

I've been a longtime fan of Logitech pointing devices, going back 30 years when I was working at a company that shared a parking lot with Logitech. At the time they had a factory store for open box/refurb and I availed myself.

Last time I was at my bank, I noticed the teller using an upright mouse. Instead of using the mouse with the palm facing down, you use the mouse with the palm facing down, the hand resting on its heel. Simple idea, but it blew my mind. The hand naturally wants to rest on its heel, with the palm facing inward. In order to use a standard mouse, you must rotate your forearm 90 degrees, so that the palm faces downward.

eBay yielded an open box Logitech Lift upright mouse in very good condition, probably from someone who tried it and didn't like it.

I, on the other hand like it enough to post about it here.

It has the two standard left and right click buttons and wheel where you'd expect to find them, plus two programmable thumb buttons and another programmable button on the palm surface just aft of the wheel. The wheel click is also programmable. A couple of features that it lacks compared to other mice I've used are mousewheel tilt and the wieghted smartshift wheel that unlocks to freewheel. I did like the smartshift wheel, but never used wheel tilt.

I keep the thumb buttons programmed to Ctrl and Alt, which allows for one-handed copy operations in Cakewalk.

It's taking a bit of getting used to, gravity is different when the hand is upright, but I'm sure it will become at least as natural as palm down mousing. Gaming is fun, the upright mouse has a joystick feel to it.

[Sal Sorice]

I’m a big fan of the Kensington trackball mouse. Love that it saves space (since you don’t have to move it like a regular mouse). Also has lots of click options that you can program. 
 

Kensington track ball mouse

[Jim Roseberry]

Finding the right pointing device can really help those with RSI issues.

Many folks love a trackball.  For whatever reason, they really inflame my Tendonitis. 

 

Right now, I'm using a Logitech G703 Lightspeed. 

Buttons and wheel don't have a lot of resistance... and that seems to keep things comfortable (for my situation).

 

Have never tried the Lift.

 

 

[kitekrazy1]

If you like to play PC games a track ball is a lousy choice.

[msmcleod]

On 10/31/2024 at 1:49 PM, Sal Sorice said:

I’m a big fan of the Kensington trackball mouse. Love that it saves space (since you don’t have to move it like a regular mouse). Also has lots of click options that you can program. 
 

Kensington track ball mouse

I use one of those too... I've had issues with their mouse driver tho.

[Sal Sorice]

22 hours ago, msmcleod said:

I use one of those too... I've had issues with their mouse driver tho.

I am not a Gamer at all, so trackball is great for me. @msmcleod, I've have good luck with 3.1.14 drivers for the Kensington Trackball. Very stable for me on Win10 Pro.