Mouse Reviews

I just recently bought this mouse and I think its great. They give you two ways to connect it to your computer, by either USB port or PS/2 mouse port. Installation was a snap using their software. I had it working in seconds and I'm not computer literate. This item also shipped really fast. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because I felt the cords are a little too short. I ended up taking both cords and connecting them together. Overall its a great product with a fantastic price.

I liked the puck-style mouse that came with my G4/450 mac because my hands are small. But after a few years, it eventually started skipping around even after I cleaned the ball and the rollers. I like the Logitech optical scrollwheel mouse on my pc so I bought something similar to it for my mac. I went to CompUSA first to compare mice visually because for me, size IS important. Of course, I bought it at Amazon because the prices are so much better here. The Kensington Iridio optical three button scrollwheel fits the bill. It's smaller than the average mouse so it fits my hand, ready to go for the mac and I like that clicking the scrollwheel makes a link open in a tab in Safari. I also have the option to create my own default settings for clicking buttons by using the enclosed software. Plus, it really is quite attractive and matches the look of my graphite mac.

The first USB mouse that I connected to my Mac was the MS Explorer. You've seen it, the one with the evil red eye on the bottom. It's a very smooth mouse with a great look. I couldn't get all of my software to communicate with the MS Explorer mouse so I bought the iSweet.

Installed the mouse and was Oh So Happy with the performance. Finally, a mouse with all the buttons I want, with a pretty good feel and response to boot! However, the next time I attempted to wake up my Mac from sleep mode it hung on a gray screen. After some fiddling, I determined that I had an extension conflict between the MS Explore extensions and the iSweet extensions. I did my best to wipe out all the extensions but it ended up taking me several hours to work out the problem.

Who's fault was it? iSweet or Microsoft? Well I talked to the people at iSweet and was less than satisfied with their "tech support". I didn't even bother calling MS since I wasn't using their product anymore and it never really worked.

To summarize this extremely long-winded review, the iSweet mouse is great. I really like it. My only beefs are that it had some conflicts and the iSweet Techies where no help. Also, it is a bit light--I like my mice to have a bit more substance to them. All in all, I'm satisfied with this mouse. But did you see the new mouse Apple put out? You know the one with the matching evil red eye on the bottom.

This is a very good 3-button scroll wheel USB mouse. It's the old-fashioned rubber ball kind, but seems to require less frequent cleaning. Its shape is the same as the MacAlly optical mouse. I have one of each and have to say this old-fashioned mouse is slightly more reliable. I sometimes get strange results with the optical mouse, which is picky about your mouse pad or surface. In contrast, this one works perfectly on foam pads, formica, or wood tabletops and you get the physical feedback that is absent in the optical variety.

The Mac version of iSweetnet works fine on my Windows PC with no special software (also on OS X). The default acceleration and speed seem familiar. My biggest annoyance with mice is that some cause me to grip them tightly while trying to stop the mouse from giving too much movement when a very small (1-pixel) move is needed. The iSweetnet works well out-of-the-box for both very fine and rapid movements.

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how many of these mice you get in the "multi-pack". After a Google search, looks to be "5". This is a pretty glaring omission,IMO.

Haven't used this product yet, after picking a couple of these up locally on sale for around $13 ea., but generally speaking, MS produces pretty good quality components, so I expect this product to work well.
Hope this helps.

An old joke, but a good one. The ball-less mouse is awesome! It can be ported to the usual mouse plug in slot (uhh, my brain isnt working the way it used to, PS/2?) or to USB. As I have USB 2.0 on my mobo, (lots and lots of USB slots) this was a nice and fast option.
It is incredibly fast, (adjustable, of course) and already, within two days, I can see the AMAZING difference between my old mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse 1.2A PS/2.
The balls arent there to collect fur, hence it will awalys stay fresh and fast (without, as so many of us are used to, having to 'shave our mice' or take the roller ball cover off and get tweesers out to get the grunge out *ick! do my hands really get covered in that crud? No wonder I get colds from my children!).

This mouse has a LOT of options for tweaking, if you like that sort of thing, or can be used straight up as a one wheel, two click mouse. I LOVE IT.

I WILL NOT GIVE IT BACK.

THIS MOUSE IS GREAT. IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT BUYING IT, DO SO!
(dang caplock key!)
In all HONESTY (a new KEYBOARD is next)
Jim

This was one of the first mice I ever bought. I've had it for at least four years and it's performed reliably with every computer it's been connected to. I've brought it with me from job to job and back and forth from home and have never had any problems with it. The buttons always click crisply and the wheel revolves easily. Now I'm buying another one to permanently connect to my home laptop workstation so I can leave one at work and one at home.

This mouse is made to last. I've had mine for seven years and it still works great today. The BEST QUALITY MOUSE in the world! Buy it now and you can look forward to a good eight to eleven years with your new mouse.

I work as a sales associate at an office supply store. I had a chance to demo this model recently; and all I have to say about it is "Wow". My expectation for comfort was exceeded, thanks to the carefully executed ergonomic design. The optical technology used in this mouse allows for more precise cursor movement. And I just love that I can scroll left & right.

My experts say that the Microsoft M03-00061 Wireless Intellimouse Explorer with Tilt Wheel Night Vision
by Microsoft Input
is not really night vision. It was very not like that. Please keep in mind that I really didn't every test it or did i ever have it. Thank You and goodnight!!!!!!!

I've used my Intellimouse Optical for over a year now and I'm quite happy with it. The size is perfect for my average-sized hands and the performance is decent. I play PC games of all genres and have never had any response problems. An adapter lets you use the mouse through either a PS2 port or a USB port. Game players who rely on quick responses should use a USB port since the PS2 port has a lackluster execution. As with other optical mice, the tracking isn't as efficient on shiny surfaces. I therefore still use my mouse pad. The mouse has two extra buttons on the right and left side. I'm fairly happy with the position of these buttons. I do find however that sometimes while in Internet Explorer, I accidently press the button near my thumb. This can cause me a moment of confusion since that button is mapped to the IE "Back" button. Overall, the Intellimouse Optical is an excellent product.

like the title says, this mouse is a great value, sitting between the intellimouse explorer and intellimouse wheel. it fits my hand perfectly too, as it is not as big at the explorer.

fuctionwise, the tracking is unparalleled--the new intellieye scanning at 6,000 times per second makes the mouse virtually skip-free, unlike older optical mice. the 5 fully programmable buttons are awesome too. the inteiipoint software allows you to assign different functions to different buttons, in different programs! i even have a button that saves my document in microsoft word! it's really a brilliant invention.

my only gripe about this mouse is its weight. it is on the light side, and i hear the hollow cluck every time i pick it up when i'm playing a game. i've grown used to it by now, but it took a couple of weeks.

in short, i believe this is the perfect mouse for me. its optical eye works great, the buttons are ingenious, and the low price at amazon.com (...) make this mouse the best bang for your buck!

I got this mouse as a gift and loved it as soon as I started using it. It definitely provides skip-free performance, has a great feel to it, has
the scroll wheel, and my new favorite thing - those programmable buttons!
At first I wasn't used to those programmable buttons and I'd accidentally press them getting unwanted results (like going back to the
previous web-page when pressing the left button, or going forward when pressing the right). But then I got so used to it and realized how helpful it was - so much so that I got another one for my work because I kept trying to press those buttons that didn't exist on my mouse at work!
There's definitely no going back to a mechanical mouse in this day and age after so many optical mouses (or is it mice!) are available.
But if you haven't used a mouse with programmable buttons before, I'm telling you - give it a try and you won't ever want to go back to
one that doesn't have them! And for the price, this one's a great bargain.

This keyboard turns a PDA into a poor man's laptop. If most of what you need it for is document driven, it's fantastic. I can type almost as fast as on my desktop, and with Wordsmith (an inexpensive but pretty powerful word processing program), I can create full length documents to review. Niceties such as spell checking and grammar (etc) can be done after syncing with a PC. I've been using this as a substitute for a pad at some meetings.

A couple of caveats. I've seen some reviews that say that the Stowaway will work on your lap. I wouldn't advise it. The parts feel rather delicate--particularly the connection point. Use a table or, if you think you'll be doing lots of lap typing, go with GOTYPE. If space is a concern and you normally have meetings at tables, then this should be fine. (Moreover, there's a "gee whiz" factor to consider. The thing is just cool). Second, because of the small screen, one can write long documents, but it becomes tedious to read them. Bookmarking functions ameliorate this problem, but don't cure it.

Still, it's obvious that a lot of thought went into the design of this product, and it pays off. The keys have good tactile response, and the function and shortcut keys were well thought out. If you have the cash and the inclination, definitely worth the money.

I have an old Handspring Visor - the 2MB RAM variety. Buying this keyboard ...has breathed new life into this older hand held. I'm using it to write down short story and novel ideas as well as rough drafts - not exactly light weight typing tasks. The keyboard performs flawlessly and has a great tactile feel. Once I had to do a hard reset of the Visor while holding down the delete key to remove a line of text, but I attribute that to my setting the keyboard repeat rate too high.

What's great is even without the LapTopHack software, there are a lot of operations you can perform without using the stylus. You can launch palm applications, execute OK, New and Cancel commands among others with the provided function keys. Certain applications are designed to take better advantage of these functions, so if you by one, look for software that's designed to work with this keyboard. WordSmith, for example, is fantastic.

I'm pretty utilitarian when it comes to gadgets. Style is at the absolute bottom of my priority list. Still, I have to say this is one very slick, very stylish piece of hardware.

I can't say enough good things about this keyboard. It's taken my Visor from being buried under a pile of paper under my desk to significant daily use. Thanks Targus and Think Outside!

Awesome! Setup is quick. Works great with my ipaq 1910 !!!

4 stars for computing, 3 stars for gaming. Took about a week for my family to get used to it.(we were used to a three button two scroll wheel logitech) Its great for regular computing once your used to its size, the location of the thumb button and the weight. For gaming its fine for most strategy games like Starcraft and Age of Empires but not very good for 1st person shooters like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3. (It's just not responsive enough for those games). Batteries wont drain that often as long as you have the mouse on a light colored surface. I had mine on a black mouse pad and the batteries drained in a week. Then I read the instructions.LIGHT COLORED SURFACES WILL MAKE THE BATTERIES LAST A LOT LONGER. (about a month for me under moderate to heavy usage)
One oddity is in the scroll wheel. It worked great under Win98 but it doesnt work smoothly with my WinXP home ed. and certain programs. (I am using the latest mouse drivers.) It's like it doesnt recognize every click of the scroll wheel. So far it does this in IE6 and Word2002 but scrolls fine in Outlook2002. I'm hoping its a driver problem.

I've had the logitech cordless mouseman optical for about six months now and find the moust to be almost perfect. The mold of the mouse fits your hand almost perfectly, and for day to day use on my Powerbook running OS X, it is wonderful. There are though a couple of problems with the mouse. First off, the batteries appear to die quite quickly, they last anywhere between a month and a month and a half. While the mouse uses two AA batteries and its not too much of a hassle to change the batteries, this does add up in cost over time and for the extra $10, it might make sense to pick up the MX700 with a rechargable base station. The only other problem I have with it is a minor quibble; the OS X software doesn't allow you to configure each program to use different buttons. If it did - it would be perfect.

In the end, this is a good buy. The size of the mouse is good, the mold is perfect, and the movement/tracking works like a charm.

What can I say, Cordless mice are cool, because they mean one less cable crossing your desk and tangling your stuff. Optical mice are cool, because they're maintenance-free -- no more having to remove a ball, blow away dust, and scrape crud off mechanical rollers. Now Logitech has beaten rodent rival Microsoft in the race to combine the two -- and if it didn't put an annoying eBay icon on your desktop during setup, the Cordless MouseMan Optical would be a perfectly nifty pointing device.

Like previous cordless mice, the new MouseMan comes in two parts: the mouse itself, a bit chunkier (5.3 ounces) than most due to two onboard AA batteries, and a half-mouse-sized radio receiver that plugs into your computer's USB or, via a supplied adapter, PS/2 port. (It's compatible with Windows 98, Me, 2000, and Mac OS 8.6 or later systems.)

The toughest part of installing the Optical was ripping open its impregnable cardboard package. The receiver has a four-foot cord, which we didn't bother uncoiling (though Logitech suggests you put the device at least 8 inches from your computer, monitor, or other electromagnetic emitter). The first time you start up the mouse, you need to push a "connect" button on the receiver and -- using a paper clip or letter opener -- one on the bottom of the mouse. After that, you're free to lean back and point and click; we strolled 10 to 15 feet from the PC without losing control, although once the receiver did lose the signal we had to walk all the way back to our desk to reestablish connection.

The reason optical mice haven't hitherto been cordless, or vice versa, is power consumption: An optical sensor similar to a scanner or digital camera takes a picture of the surface beneath the mouse 1,500 times per second, comparing pictures to detect mouse movement. Logitech says it teamed with Agilent Technologies to create a new optical chip that instantly, automatically shifts in and out of various power-saving modes (flickering between 1,500, 100, 10, and 2 flashes per second) as you move the mouse, click a button, or leave it idle. This yields battery life (checkable on a handy gauge in Windows' system tray) that the company estimates at three months from two disposable AA alkalines.

After some of the "Look, Ma, I'm ergonomic" swoops, tailfins, and light-up logos of recent mice, it's refreshing to report that the Cordless MouseMan Optical is mouse-shaped -- a conventional, comfortable oval with a slightly convex left side and rubber grip that cushions your thumb (your right thumb, that is; lefties are out of luck).

I highly recomend this item to everyone (that is right handed unfortunately)...

Everyone seems to like this mouse, but not me. The optical tracking is fine, but the size of this thing is ridiculous. The ironic thing is that I'm rather large myself, so I'd guess that I have a larger hand than most people.

For 15 years, I've used mice and other input devices frequently for pixel art, higher-level painting, and I'm a skilled gamer and professional game programmer. But my technique, like many good artists and gamers, is to keep the corner of my palm planted on the desk, as I do when using a pen or pencil. The two advantages are that it takes the weight and strain off my the arm, and it puts the mouse entirely under the fine motor control of my fingers. Obviously, this is impossible if the mouse is so huge. I'm pretty much limited to cupping my hand over this thing, meaning I can't leverage any coordinated muscle groups to steer this Titanic.

Other complaints: the shape isn't really that good either, it feels hollow, the side buttons are hard to reach, and the buttons feel loose instead of solid.

So I sold it and got the Logitech optical wheel mouse instead, and it's the best mouse I've ever used. (And I've used around 50 different mice in my time.) The Logitech is also a lot less expensive.

I bought this mouse when they were first launched a few years ago. After years of using non-optical mice, it was fantastic having a mouse which I didn't have to clean out every month or so and which tracked extremely well, and although I didn't think I'd use the extra buttons, I've found that because of the excellent software which comes with it, they have actually been quite useful as you can assign them to different task depending on the application currently running.

The mouse tracks very well, except if your surface is too polished (which isn't often a problem for me). Also, it's pretty comfortable to use, even though it's rather large, it's pretty lightweight, which says to me it's not built that well, but then structurally I've never had a problem. However the shape will not make left-handed users very happy.

My only real complaint is the reliability of these mice. A friend on mine has got through 2 of them so far, seemingly because of dodgy cable connections, and mine seems to occasionally fail for no apparent reason. When it fails, the light comes on and flashes 4 times, then nothing. If I leave it unplugged for a while, sometimes days, it seems to magically start working again. Another colleague has had one for a similar amount of time, but has never had any issues, but then looking at the condition of it, he obviously doesn't use his mouse as much as I do (not even his keyboard has a smooth patch on the space bar, something my keyboards develop in the space of a few months).

Overall, I like this mouse, but the unreliability of it makes me want to give it a lower score than it should really deserve. MS have done a nice job with the Mac and Windows software which comes with it and have made a good all-round mouse, but when it stops working and I have to resort to a single button Mac mouse for a few days, it's just not fun. Although that new black leather wireless looks nice, I have a feeling I'll be buying a Logitech next time around.

I've been using my IntelliMouse Explorer since March, with only one complaint: I can't buy another one to install on my system at work. This mouse has seriously spoiled me. No more sticky or sluggish operation like with my conventional mouse, and the programmable forward and back buttons make surfing the net much smoother and faster. I was suprised to hear that some people have trouble hitting them by mistake, because my thumb lies very naturally underneath the buttons, until I need to use them. It really is very intuitive in the operation. I also really enjoy the wheel scroll feature. You can actually click on the wheel itself, and then use the mouse to scroll through long web pages at lightning speed. All this, plus it just looks so darn cool on my desktop. I shopped all over, both in my home town and online last spring, because after I saw one in person, I had to have one. After much searching, I found one for $69.99, which was $5 less than anywhere else. Now I find it on Amazon for $15 less than the "sale" price. I'm going to get one for my parents for Christmas, mostly for them, but also because I hate using their dinky little mouse when I go over to help them out with PC problems. All around an excellent tool, and now at an even better price.

I just recently built a desk for my new computer only to find out the wires for most of my perhiperals (monitor, scanner, keyboard and mouse) were not long enough. I fixed the scanner problem (monitor looks like a lost cause), and decided to invest in a wireless keyboard and maybe a mouse.

Well the Logitech caught my attention and purchased it. Setup was a breeze as it comes with USB and PS/2 connectors. Plugged everything in (using the PS/2 connectors to free up a USB port) and loaded the software. The directions are not clear but should be good for most people.

The keyboard is quiet and has a nice feel to it. Directions don't tell you how to program all the buttons, and I'm still trying to figure out some of them. The mouse works good as long as you have a good surface to move it on. The pointer seems jumpy on a computer desk surface and even worse with the current mouse pad I have.

I did mount the receiver underneath the desk away from everything so I can put the keyboard in my lap and type away.

I would still buy this keyboard and mouse again, but want you to know about two issues: 1) keyboard is slightly larger than my previous one due to the handy scroll button on the left side. So it doesn't fit well in the slide out tray on my desk. 2) make sure you push the connect button on all three devices. The red button on the mouse is extremely small so its easy to miss. Wasted a few hours reading tech support FAQ to find out why my mouse doesn't work when all I needed to do was push the button.

My brother-in-law has the Microsoft wireless optical mouse which I compared to this. The Logitech mouse just fells better and with a lower price, I recommend it over the Microsoft one.

This cordless keyboard/mouse combo has a lot going for it, but is let down by the battery life of the mouse.

GOOD:
- It's very stylish
- It has incredible range. The keyboard works from 2 or 3 metres away from the screen.
- The additional buttons are not gimmicky - they are actually very useful. The volume dial I can use to control music volume from my bed, for instance. The other buttons can be set up as short cuts to folders, programs or websites, and I like to use the scroll button to replace ALT-TAB. For people who like keyboard shortcuts, it's a real godsend. You can hit one button and have amazon.com up on your screen just like that.

NEGATIVE:
- The battery life of the mouse. It's ridiculous. I find myself changing the batteries about once a month. Even worse is the fact that the optical light (red light under the mouse) will keep blinking even when the computer is off, sucking even more battery power.

I have actually given my keyboard to my dad while I am travelling for half a year. I was planning to buy another one when I returned home, but what I think I'll do is wait and hope that Logitech releases a cordless keyboard/mouse combo with the MX700 mouse. That's a cordless optical mouse that has a recharging dock. From the reviews I've read, that solves the one weakness of this package. The mouse should always be fully charged.

So if you need something now and can overlook the battery draining nature of the mouse, i'd say get this combo. If you can wait, see if the MX700 is going to be released in a keyboard/mouse combo.

P.S. Battery life for the keyboard has not been a problem so far.