Bob McCune

I was recently in the market for a new mouse for my MacBook Pro. I did some research and found the Logitech VX Revolution mouse had received a lot of good press and most users raved about it. I’ve owned a few different Logitech products over the years (mice, speakers, universal remote) and, although my experience with Logitech has been somewhat mixed, I decided to go ahead and pick one up.

I installed the mouse and configured it for my system. Less than a day later my system froze up with a kernel panic (see below), which is essentially the Mac equivalent of the Windows BSOD.

This is an extremely rare event, but I didn’t give it too much thought and rebooted my machine and got back to work. A couple of days later the same thing happened again but, unfortunately, this one left my machine in a bad state. As I hadn’t made any other system changes, it was clear my fancy new mouse (the drivers, anyway) were to blame. I uninstalled the drivers, ditched the mouse, and got my machine running again, but it continued acting up with miscellaneous problems and freezes. I finally decided to wipe my system and do a clean install.

I’ve been back to using Macs for about the past 3-4 years and have never experienced a problem like this. I had only experienced one previous kernel panic and that was due to me attempting to do something stupid rather than an actual problem with the system. I can’t say you’ll experience the same problem I did, but Logitech has earned the chief spot on on my shit list for causing me these headaches.