Keyboards and mice · Logitech
Owners keep the MX Master 1 as a long-serving daily work mouse, some for close to a decade, accepting a worn thumb rest and a cursor feel some find slow.
Owners are divided on replacement shells. One owner fitted a new body bought online and says it gave the mouse a second life. Others are still searching for a shell after the side rubber cracked or the casing wore out.
The rubber coating wears out. One owner's thumb rest has worn through to a hole after nearly ten years of daily use, and others found the side rubber cracked, sometimes while opening the mouse for a repair.
The MX Master is Logitech's original MX Master wireless mouse from 2015. It's a full-size, rechargeable mouse for office work and creative work, and it connects through a small USB receiver or Bluetooth.
| Connection | Unifying 2.4 GHz USB receiver or Bluetooth Smart |
|---|---|
| Battery life | 40 days (500 mAh LiPo, rechargeable; 1 minute of charging gives about 2 hours of use) |
| Switches or sensor | Darkfield invisible laser sensor |
| Polling rate and DPI | 400 to 1600 DPI |
| Weight | 145 g (5.11 oz) |
| Layout and buttons | Scroll wheel; lights show battery level and which connection is in use |
| Warranty |
From the maker's spec page, checked October 9, 2026. A blank row means the maker does not state it.
40 days of battery means you charge it about once a month with daily use, and one minute on the cable gives you about two hours if it runs flat. The Darkfield sensor tracks on most surfaces, including glass. 1600 DPI is plenty for normal screens but low compared with newer mice. At 145 g it is a heavy mouse, which feels steady but slower to move around.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
Some owners treat it as a mouse that simply keeps going. One has used theirs almost every day for nearly ten years and says it still works as well as when it was new, so they won't replace it until it stops working. Another went back to a nine-year-old MX Master 1 when their newer 3S failed. A third used theirs happily for years before moving to the 3S for USB-C and passing the original to their wife.
The adjustments are about feel and software. Owners who are sensitive to cursor smoothness say the low polling rate is noticeable even when moving the pointer around the desktop. One runs it at 250 Hz over Bluetooth to get by. An owner who also uses a fast gaming mouse says the Logitech now feels dated by comparison, even for office work. The scroll wheel can depend on Logi Options+: one owner with five units says the wheel scrolls out of control unless the software is running.
The core of the mouse holds up well for some owners, with one reporting near-daily use for almost a decade and no loss in function. The coating is what goes first: the thumb rest wears through and the side rubber cracks. One owner's pointer stopped working because the gesture button was stuck pressed. Loosening its circuit board fixed it and the button now clicks better than before, though the rubber cracked during the repair. Owners deal with worn casings by buying replacement shells online, and one even revived a worn unit picked up from a junkyard. A few owners also raised left click wear and general build quality, but those themes have too few accounts to judge.
Long-term accounts that are specifically about this model are thin. Several of the comments compare it with later MX Master versions or talk about the wider range, so treat the durability picture here as a handful of individual stories rather than a settled pattern.
Parts named in the 3 accounts that describe a failure
From 7 owner accounts that said how long they have had it. Own one? Add how long yours has lasted.
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
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Among the 7 owner accounts here that gave a duration, 3 described a failure. Parts named most: unspecified/died, battery, mouse.
Before you buy one used, ask the seller: how old it is, whether it was ever repaired and by whom, and whether any of the parts above have been replaced. Ask to see it run. A receipt tells you the warranty start date; most makers honour the term only for the first owner.
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