Logitech MX Master 4 for Business in review – Vesa Nopanen – Future Work today

As a guide who works on fashionable & future work, AI and Microsoft 365, my mouse is without doubt one of the instruments I take advantage of probably the most each single day. I’ve been a long-time fan of the MX Grasp line — the MX Master 3s has been my each day driver for years — so when Logitech supplied me the prospect to attempt the brand new MX Grasp 4 for Enterprise, I used to be very curious to see what a brand new technology would really carry to the desk. Thanks, Logitech, for sending it over for testing.

I’ve now used the MX Grasp 4 for a few month, each at my house workplace and on the street, and I need to share my hands-on expertise with it. MX Grasp 4 is the primary mouse to help superior haptics on Home windows!

1. First impressions: familiar, but a little bigger
2. The new headline feature: haptic feedback
   1. Tuning the haptics to your taste
3. Logi Options+ is still the way to configure
4. Easy-Switch between three computers
5. Battery — and Logitech’s estimates that are actually accurate
6. Dimensions and small things that add up
7. Who is it for?

First impressions: acquainted, however somewhat larger

When you have used an MX Grasp 3 (or 3S), the MX Grasp 4 will really feel instantly acquainted. The form, the sculpted thumb relaxation, the MagSpeed scroll wheel, the aspect thumb wheel — they’re all there, the place you anticipate them to be.

What shocked me at first was the scale. The MX Grasp 4 is barely bigger than the MX Grasp 3s, and I seen it instantly. My hand wanted somewhat time to regulate to the brand new proportions. After a few week it felt fully pure, and now I really want it. For those who ever felt that the MX Grasp 3 was only a contact too small on your hand, this model goes to fit your needs higher.

One small consequence of the brand new form: the furthest button beneath the aspect thumb wheel is, for me, a bit out of comfy attain with the thumb. I solved this by assigning a rarely-used operate to it in Logi Choices+, so I don’t have to stretch to it throughout regular work.

Logitech web site additionally mentions that MX Grasp 4 ought to have improved stain resistance, and it will be simpler to wash than 3s. I’m trying ahead to seeing this in couple of years for positive!

The brand new headline characteristic: haptic suggestions

The massive new factor on the MX Grasp 4 is the haptic suggestions — Logitech calls it the Haptic Sense Panel, and it sits proper beneath the thumb space the place your thumb naturally rests. That is the characteristic I’ve been most excited to check, and actually it has been probably the most enjoyable a part of the overview.

Haptics right here should not only a gimmick. The mouse provides you a small, tuned vibration when one thing significant occurs. The primary time I actually obtained it was in PowerPoint: as I dragged a form close to one other one they usually snapped into alignment, I felt a transparent little tick from the mouse. It’s a small factor, nevertheless it adjustments the expertise. You are feeling the alignment in addition to see it. Instantly the structure work turns into a extra tactile exercise, virtually like working with bodily objects on a desk.

Additionally, you will really feel haptics on issues like window snapping and resizing in Home windows 11 — Logitech has constructed native integration with Home windows 11 Superior Haptics, and extra eventualities (like file drag and drop) are coming. On the Logi Choices+ aspect, the Actions Ring, Sensible Actions and Gestures all profit from the suggestions — when the Actions Ring opens across the thumb space, the haptic suggestions comes from precisely the identical space, which makes navigation really feel very pure.

Home windows 11 Haptics help: MX Master 4 Native Haptics with Windows 11 – Logitech Support

Have a look on Haptics on Logitech’s web page: Logitech MX Master 4 — discover Haptics.

Tuning the haptics to your style

In Logi Choices+ you possibly can configure the haptic suggestions in a method that matches you. There are 4 depth ranges:

• Refined
• Low
• Medium (default)
• Excessive

I’ve stayed on Medium, which is precisely the place I needed it after a number of days. You can too allow or disable haptics per plugin/per app, so if you don’t want suggestions in a specific instrument you possibly can change it off there and preserve it elsewhere.

I actually just like the haptics. The suggestions genuinely provides to the expertise and, after a month, it’s the characteristic I might miss probably the most if I had to return.

Logi Choices+ remains to be the best way to configure

To get probably the most out of this mouse, set up Logi Choices+. That is the place you tune the haptic depth, configure per-app profiles, arrange the Actions Ring, Sensible Actions, Flows, and gestures, and assign every button. The MX Grasp 4 has numerous buttons, and Choices+ is the place the place all of them turn out to be your buttons.

One change I made in comparison with my MX Grasp 3 setup: I moved my media controls away from the thumb button and assigned them to one of many three buttons beneath the aspect thumb wheel. That is partly as a result of the thumb space is now the haptic zone the place the Actions Ring opens, and partly as a result of, after a number of days of utilizing it, the buttons beneath the thumb wheel turned out to be a extra comfy place for media keys for me. It’s a small workflow change, however it’s the type of factor Choices+ makes very simple.

Straightforward-Change between three computer systems

Just like the MX Grasp 3, the MX Grasp 4 helps Straightforward-Change between as much as three computer systems. I bounce between a piece laptop computer, a private system and a demo machine continuously, so that is the one characteristic that earns its place on my desk each single day.

You possibly can change in two methods:

1. The devoted button on the underside of the mouse, the basic method. That is how I change.
2. From the Actions Ring, proper beneath your thumb — which, with haptics, feels nice.

Join through Logi Bolt USB receiver or Bluetooth, on Home windows, macOS, Chrome OS or Linux.

What I really like is how simple it’s to attach the mouse to Home windows 11 pc nowadays. Simply easy-switch to unassigned slot and it’s robotically pairing, which Home windows then notifies and asks if you wish to connect with the system. It couldn’t be simpler.

Battery — and Logitech’s estimates which might be really correct

Logitech states a battery lifetime of about 70 days on a full cost. I normally take such numbers with a pinch of salt, however my expertise with the MX Grasp line — and with the MX Brio and different Logitech gear — is that their battery estimates are remarkably trustworthy.

After a few month of heavy each day use, together with numerous conferences, displays and the haptic suggestions enabled the entire time, the mouse nonetheless studies 65 % battery remaining. That’s proper on observe for the 70-day estimate, and that’s with haptics doing their factor. For those who ever do run low, USB-C fast charging provides you many hours of use from a one-minute top-up.

Dimensions and small issues that add up

Dimensions

• Top: 5.05 in (128.15 mm)
  • Width: 3.48 in (88.35 mm)
  • Depth: 2 in (50.8 mm)
  • Weight: 5.29 oz (150 g)

Just a few extra issues price noting:

• Quiet Clicks: the first buttons are very quiet, which I admire particularly when I’m on conferences and calls.
• The MagSpeed scroll wheel remains to be magic. Line-by-line precision if you scroll slowly, free-spin mode if you flick it.
• 8,000 DPI sensor that tracks on glass and virtually every other floor.
• For organizations, the for Enterprise variant works with Logitech’s administration tooling for IT.
• Sustainability data

Who’s it for?

In case you are coming from the MX Grasp 3S, the MX Grasp 4 is just not a revolution in form, however the haptics change how the mouse feels in each day work and that’s extra significant than I anticipated earlier than I began utilizing it. In case your hand all the time needed somewhat extra mouse, the marginally larger dimension might be welcome. If use PowerPoint, Home windows 11, and different applications & OSs supporting haptics, the suggestions on alignment, snapping and resizing is the type of small improve you discover. However the important thing factor is that that is one of the best mouse I’ve used to date. It’s strong ( high quality really feel), quiet, sits properly in my hand ( regardless of the bigger dimension), and it is rather configurable.

For me, after a month, the MX Grasp 4 for Enterprise has earned its place on my desk. The mixture of the acquainted MX Grasp ergonomics, the brand new haptics, quiet clicks, configurations, Straightforward-Change and a battery that delivers precisely what Logitech guarantees is a really strong package deal for anybody whose each day work is constructed on a mouse.

Huge thanks once more to Logitech for letting me check it. You possibly can learn extra about it on Logitech’s web page: Logitech MX Master 4 for Business — and particularly take a look on the Haptics part with examples.

Printed by Vesa Nopanen

Vesa “Vesku” Nopanen, Principal Marketing consultant and Microsoft MVP (Microsoft 365 and Azure AI Foundry) engaged on Future Work at Sulava MEA.

I work, weblog and discuss Future Work : AI, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Loop, Azure, and different companies & platforms within the cloud connecting digital and bodily and folks collectively.

I’ve 30 years of expertise in IT enterprise on a number of industries, domains, and roles.
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