Logitech M510 Wireless Mouse Review: Boring, Cheap, and Still the Right Answer

Logitech M510 Wireless Mouse Review: The Sensible Default

The Bottom Line

Buy it if your hand hurts using the mouse that came with your computer. The M510 is a full-size, right-handed wireless mouse with a USB receiver, side buttons and AA batteries. There is nothing clever about it. What there is, is a shape that fills an adult hand and a battery life measured in years rather than weeks.

Who should buy this: Anyone working from home on a laptop with a flat bundled mouse. People with medium-to-large hands. Anyone who resents charging peripherals.

Who should NOT buy this: Left-handers — it's shaped for right hands only. Gamers who need high polling rates. Anyone out of USB-A ports on a modern laptop. People who want Bluetooth rather than a dongle.

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How We Assessed It

Our assessment weighs the M510 against the flat mice bundled with laptops and against modern rechargeable, Bluetooth-only models, on the things that actually separate them: whether a full-size shell that fills an adult hand prevents the wrist ache a claw grip produces over a working day, what AA batteries and a proprietary receiver buy you against a rechargeable Bluetooth mouse, where an optical sensor stops tracking, and what a USB-A dongle costs you on a laptop that no longer has the port.

The Good

The shape is the entire product. It's tall enough and wide enough that your hand rests on it rather than pinching it. Slim travel mice and bundled laptop mice force a claw grip that produces wrist ache over a full working day; this doesn't. If you're getting hand pain at a desk, shape fixes it far more reliably than any "ergonomic" badge.

Battery life is genuinely absurd. A low-power optical sensor and a pair of AAs put this in the class of peripherals measured in years rather than weeks. Rechargeable mice ask you to think about power weekly; this asks you to think about it roughly annually.

Side buttons are worth more than they look. Back and forward under your thumb sounds trivial until you've had them for a week. For browsing and file management they remove a constant small friction.

Tracking is reliable on ordinary surfaces. Bare desk, fabric pad, painted wood — all unremarkable. Glass is the exception, and that is true of nearly every optical mouse rather than a fault here.

The Bad

It uses a USB-A dongle. On a modern laptop that's either a port you don't have or an adapter you have to carry. If you want Bluetooth, this is the wrong model.

It's right-handed only. Not "ambidextrous with a slight curve" — genuinely shaped for a right hand. Left-handers should look elsewhere.

AA batteries mean weight. Part of why it feels substantial is that there's a battery in it. Some people prefer a lighter mouse and will find this heavy.

No high-precision scroll. The wheel is a standard notched wheel. It's fine, but there's no free-spin mode for long documents.

Who It's Really For

Someone setting up a home desk properly for the first time, who has worked out that the laptop trackpad and a flat bundled mouse are why their wrist aches by Friday. This is not an exciting purchase and it isn't meant to be — it's a correctly shaped input device that works for years without maintenance, which is exactly what a work tool should be.

Final Verdict

Price-Per-Value Rating: 8.4/10

The right shape, side buttons that remove a constant small friction, and a battery you can forget about for a year at a time. The USB-A dongle is the one thing that dates it and the reason to check your ports before ordering. Otherwise, it's the mouse to buy when you don't want to think about mice.

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