See your way to going optical (Logitech Cordless Optical Wheel Mouse)

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Product:	Logitech Cordless Optical Wheel Mouse
Date:	07/02/08 (46 review reads)
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Advantages: Quick, easy to use, good features, not expensive

Disadvantages: Mine broke in the end!

I was really pleased with this when I first got it.

I love the idea of a cordless mouse, as I am left-handed and everyone else in my family is right handed so I was always moving wires round the back of the monitor to get the thing in the right position for me to use at the family desktop.

So seeing this for under £20 in PC World - I had to buy. Liked it so much at home, I bought one to use at work too.

THINGS I LIKE ABOUT IT:

1. It is cordless.
2. It's by Logitech, who are good with device drivers, so you can usually plug and play in any computer. If you have a problem their drivers are easy to get hold of on the internet.
3. It has a scroll wheel in the middle, which once you are used to using (to go up and down a page on screen) it is hard to do without.
4. It feels nice in your hand, and crucially for me, is equally good in the left hand as in the right. Some are designed to be hand specific, but that would have been no good for my purpose.
5. It has a bit of software which flips up in the corner of your computer screen and tells you when the battery is getting low. You can ignore it for about a fortnight after it starts telling you it's low, before it actually dies, but that's great - it makes you go and get extra batteries and leave them handy for when it does. (The mouse takes two AAs, I use my computer every day and change them about 4 times a year)
6. The battery compartment comes off nice and easily to change the cells, but never by accident.
7. It's optical which means it works without a mouse pad and on any surface, and so much more smoothly than the old ball system.


THINGS I DON'T LIKE ABOUT IT:

1. Twice, with two different but identical mice, on two different computers, the device driver for it has started randomly conflicting and stopping the machine entering stand by. didn't do it for at least a year, and you can fix ti by installing a driver update from their website,. but annoying all the same.

2. It can be a bit fiddley getting the mouse to talk to the base station. you have to do this not only when you first set it up, but often when you change the batteries too. Needs a biro in a specific point and some dexterous multi-clicking and I often need several goes before I've managed it.

3. One of mine has stopped working. It just stopped talking to the base station. Grrr. Had to replace it. not til it was probably three years old though.

TO SUM UP:

I'd still recommend - but I expect now you can get a groovier, more up-to-date model for twenty quid. See one of these at a low price though, go for it. They do the job.

Summary: A good buy.

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