Let’s talk about comfort for a minute. Interfacing with your PC, and the quality of this interaction (especially over long periods) is often overlooked. Take the Gigabyte M6980 a shown on the last page: Its moulded curves fit your right hand brilliantly, and for long periods it is very comfortable to use. Looking at the MYST, it’s obvious it’s less ergonomic. The MYST is very flat, and this is really the main problem. Getting a decent grip on the MYST can sometimes be difficult, and although my hand does look large in the image above, it’s probably typically sized. As you can see, the low sides, even with their moulded recess, are not exactly large or ergonomic at all. In fact, the recess you can see serves little purpose as it cannot be reached anyway.

The MYST is also very light, as advertised as a feature on the packaging. If you have experience with mice, you’ll know there really is an optimum weight for comfort and performance, rather than convenience and portability, which are lesser concerns, in my opinion. With this in mind, the MYST feels too light; it really needs some more weight to keep it down on the desk when you’re clasping it as you must (due to the shape). Even a small amount would be of benefit, and with mice this physical size I really can’t imagine there was an issue with them being too heavy for easy transport; so Speedlink seem to have attempted to solve a problem that simply wasn’t there in the first place. That’s assuming the light construction is not a by-product of design and marketed on the box out of coincidence, without much thought.

The build quality of the MYST is good, and despite the top shell being combined with the two click buttons, there are no signs of stress or the possibility of it breaking. The switch on the bottom is fairly robust, clicks are about as firm as you would expect on a small mouse of this size and the finish is very nice indeed. The white version may well be the colour of choice here (especially if you have an Apple Mac) not only because it looks nicer, but also because it won’t show those hairline scratches that Piano black products seem to attract.