The Wireless Optical Mouse lets you personalize your desktop with a selection of several eye-catching colors. Its ergonomic design gives you plenty of comfort, Tilt Wheel Technology provides easy convenience, and longer battery life lets you work without interruption.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Outstanding for those with finger mobility issues, January 7, 2009
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S. KellyIf you have Parkinson's disease or some sort of tremor, this is the mouse for you. The buttons are highly configurable with the software, the scroll is very easy to use, and all of the buttons are very friendly to those of us who have problems with our hands. I cannot recommend this highly enough.
Unique scroll wheel, can use just 1 battery, biggest USB dongle ever, December 24, 2008
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Steve Ko (San Francisco, CA USA)
This is a decent cordless mouse that is chock full of last year's technology. I picked one up from the clearance bin of a local computer store.
- Tracking: it uses optical tracking instead of the new-fangled laser tracking that is all the rage nowadays. I own several laser mice by Logitech and, honestly, I can't really notice much of a difference between optical and laser. The laser mice work on a greater variety of surfaces, but this is more important for a travel mouse. This mouse is definitely NOT for travel (more on that later).
- Scroll wheel: As many reviewers have mentioned before, the scroll wheel on this mouse is squishy/smooth. There are no "detents" as you scroll -- it just smoothly rotates. It took me about a day to get used to it, but now I actually prefer the smooth scrolling. There is something relaxing about it. The scroll wheel also supports tilting to the left and right for horizontal scrolling, which is also nice.
- Extra buttons: There are 2 extra buttons on this mouse that are activated by your thumb. The bigger one (which is programmed to go back in your browser) is convenient to access, but the smaller one takes a little bit of a stretch to click.
- USB dongle: This mouse must have the largest USB dongle of any cordless mouse. It's so big, it looks like a corded mouse! Compared to the current generation of USB dongles that practically disappear into the USB port, the size of the USB dongle on this mouse is downright comical. This makes this mouse unsuitable for travel.
- 1-battery mode: You can choose to put just 1 AA battery into the mouse and it will still work. This is one of my favorite features of the mouse because it allows me to make the mouse lighter. The only other cordless mouse I know of that does this is Apple's Wireless Mighty Mouse.
- Software: The latest drivers from Microsoft work just fine with the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6.
- Ergonomics: This mouse is designed for righties. Sorry lefties! It is also on the largish side. I have relatively small hands, and I usually prefer smaller mice, but the size and shape of this mouse actually work pretty well for me. It is definitely designed for "arm mousers" as opposed to "finger mousers". Supposedly, using your arm and shoulder for mouse movements is better for you ergonomically.
Using for 4 years, December 16, 2008
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Adam L. RobertsonI am a huge advocate of splurging on a better quality product than buying something cheap and it breaking later...or finding out it sucks
This mouse is awesome. It's very comfortable. My hands are on the bigger side, and this does the trick. I bought it before I went to college 4 years ago and still cannot find a better mouse for me.
The fingerprint reader is annoying because I don't use it, but that's not Microsoft's fault. It's a cool feature. So if you want fingerprint reading, it works perfectly and is a good addition.
good but squishy, December 12, 2008
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Kevin Olivera nice mouse, but the scroll wheel is a bit sluggish and "squishy" for my taste.
Does what it says, December 11, 2008
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Nicholas T. Sparagis (Schaumburg, IL)
It's a wireless mouse. What can I say, except that it's wireless and it works and has a nice ergonomic design.
I was skeptical b/c of the Microsoft brand b/c Microsoft is a software company and this is hardware.
I'm not curious enough to learn all the button, but the right, left and scroll wheel are very helpful.
