The wireless mouse market is growing exponentially. In the market for a new mouse I tried to make some sense of the range out there. At the top end, there seems to be some mice, in the $100-$200 market, that appear to be trying to replace the PC itself – email buttons, notification LEDs, all manner of gadgets. They are the size of a small brick and look, well, kind of stupid.
I prefer the mouse that lets you use it left or right handed, still resembles a mouse, and doesn’t over do it with buttons that I find are easy to hit and launch all manner of things on the PC when you’re in the middle of something else. So we take a look at the grandly named Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000.
This mouse is a good size (I have big hands) and a good weight. It moves effortlessly across the screen and has extremely good motion tracking. It’s one of the new ‘laser mice’ with a significant increase in the level of accuracy in tracking small movements. It feels natural in its speed and motion across the screen.
It has a magnification feature that seems pretty logical and easy to use (click the right side button) and would be very useful if you needed vision enhancement for the screen.
The scroll wheel is delicious and scrolls slowly through a document when you need it and races to the end of a document as you speed up your scrolling of the wheel – very nice.
It is highly configurable and the buttons worked in various ways based on how you set them up. You can even set the mouse up to use particular sets of buttons up within a particular program. We tried this with Firefox and it worked just fine. It would have been great to have some settings on the mouse for Windows Media Player, maybe there’s some custom settings we can use? We’ll keep trying.
The wireless bit of the unit seems to work very well. No problems. Just plug and play.
So overall, I would highly recommend this mouse. It’s a little more expensive that a corded mouse, but not much more. I haven’t tried any of the cheaper wireless brands on the market and have stuck with Logitech or Microsoft for mice so far. I’ll take the plunge one day soon but if anyone has used wireless mice from other manufacturers, let us know what your experience has been.
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