Logitech Marathon Mouse M705

Rob Williams · 11-02-2010, 09:31 PM

Wireless mice offer a plethora of benefits to their users, but the most common complaint about them is the lack of battery-life, or the need to change the batteries at all. Logitech aims to make things a bit easier on people with its Marathon Mouse M705... a mouse that uses two AA batteries and lasts an entire three years. Yes, three years.

You can read Jamie's full look at Logitech's long-lasting mouse and discuss it here!

DarkStarr · 11-03-2010, 02:30 AM

Hey!!! I have this mouse!! lol I love the fast scroll, combined with an addon to firefox that makes a lot of pages endless (most forums, google etc) I can just scroll through pages easily :P My receiver is plugged into a gutted mac keyboard with a built in hub underneath my desk, around the keyboard area, had to do that for my old mouse, didn't like it sticking out the front of the PC and the back had too much metal in the way.

Psi* · 11-04-2010, 10:58 AM

I just ordered it ... after having just replaced the batteries in the current 6 to 9 y/o Logitech mouse, I decided to give the little guy a rest.

Psi* · 11-04-2010, 09:12 PM

And I was going to order a suggested Logitech wireless keyboard, but today I saw a blurb about a solar powered wireless Logitech k/b & decided to hold out for that .. depending on what ppl say about it.

Rob Williams · 11-04-2010, 11:22 PM

The solar powered keyboard has me interested also... it's truly about time someone did something like that.

Tharic-Nar · 11-11-2010, 01:16 AM

Just a quick update, had a minor issue with the setpoint software. The application specific button assignment decided to 'forget' one of the bindings for Borderlands. I had the 8th button set for 'C' or crouch. For the last 2 weeks it was fine, worked perfectly. Booted up borderlands yesterday, pressed the button, instead of crouching i was greeted with it's default assignment of Application Switcher (joy, alt-tab in the middle of a gun fight). Checked the key assignment and it had in fact been reset to default. The other button assignments still worked fine, which is rather peculiar.

It'll probably be fixed at some point, but just letting you know that it can sometimes 'forget' button assignments.

DarkStarr · 11-11-2010, 06:00 PM

That's odd, I use xmousebuttons for setting the keys on the mouse, seems a lot better than their app.

11-02-2010, 09:31 PM	#1
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	Logitech Marathon Mouse M705 Wireless mice offer a plethora of benefits to their users, but the most common complaint about them is the lack of battery-life, or the need to change the batteries at all. Logitech aims to make things a bit easier on people with its Marathon Mouse M705... a mouse that uses two AA batteries and lasts an entire three years. Yes, three years. You can read Jamie's full look at Logitech's long-lasting mouse and discuss it here! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

11-03-2010, 02:30 AM	#2
DarkStarr Tech Monkey Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 623	Hey!!! I have this mouse!! lol I love the fast scroll, combined with an addon to firefox that makes a lot of pages endless (most forums, google etc) I can just scroll through pages easily :P My receiver is plugged into a gutted mac keyboard with a built in hub underneath my desk, around the keyboard area, had to do that for my old mouse, didn't like it sticking out the front of the PC and the back had too much metal in the way. __________________ Intel Core i7 2700k (4.8 @ 100x48) Watercooled - 16GB Crucial Ballistix @ 1600 Mhz 9.9.9.24 2T 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600 Mhz 9.9.9.24 2T - Asus Sabertooth P67 - Asus Radeon 7970 Ref. (Non Ghz) Heatkiller 79xx Ni-Bl (Soon) @ 1050/1500 - 64Gb Crucial M4 SSD - 3x Hitachi 1Tb - Corsair TX950W Azza Genesis 9000B - 2x Samsung SyncMaster S27A550H - Vizio 32" LCD Last edited by DarkStarr; 11-03-2010 at 02:44 AM.

11-04-2010, 11:22 PM	#5
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	The solar powered keyboard has me interested also... it's truly about time someone did something like that. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

11-11-2010, 06:00 PM	#7
DarkStarr Tech Monkey Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 623	That's odd, I use xmousebuttons for setting the keys on the mouse, seems a lot better than their app. __________________ Intel Core i7 2700k (4.8 @ 100x48) Watercooled - 16GB Crucial Ballistix @ 1600 Mhz 9.9.9.24 2T 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600 Mhz 9.9.9.24 2T - Asus Sabertooth P67 - Asus Radeon 7970 Ref. (Non Ghz) Heatkiller 79xx Ni-Bl (Soon) @ 1050/1500 - 64Gb Crucial M4 SSD - 3x Hitachi 1Tb - Corsair TX950W Azza Genesis 9000B - 2x Samsung SyncMaster S27A550H - Vizio 32" LCD

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11-04-2010, 10:58 AM	#3
Psi* Tech Monkey Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Westport, CT Posts: 766	I just ordered it ... after having just replaced the batteries in the current 6 to 9 y/o Logitech mouse, I decided to give the little guy a rest.

11-04-2010, 09:12 PM	#4
Psi* Tech Monkey Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Westport, CT Posts: 766	And I was going to order a suggested Logitech wireless keyboard, but today I saw a blurb about a solar powered wireless Logitech k/b & decided to hold out for that .. depending on what ppl say about it.

11-11-2010, 01:16 AM	#6
Tharic-Nar Techgage Staff Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: UK Posts: 1,152	Just a quick update, had a minor issue with the setpoint software. The application specific button assignment decided to 'forget' one of the bindings for Borderlands. I had the 8th button set for 'C' or crouch. For the last 2 weeks it was fine, worked perfectly. Booted up borderlands yesterday, pressed the button, instead of crouching i was greeted with it's default assignment of Application Switcher (joy, alt-tab in the middle of a gun fight). Checked the key assignment and it had in fact been reset to default. The other button assignments still worked fine, which is rather peculiar. It'll probably be fixed at some point, but just letting you know that it can sometimes 'forget' button assignments.