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Summary: A serious nervous twitch
Review: Although ok at first....this mouse is making me nuts. It continually jumps off my placement to all corners of the screen (mostly bottom) and is about due to be replaced..!
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Summary: Doesn't work. POS.
Review: As other reviewers here note, the cursor frequently and unpredictably jumps to the corners of the screen in the absence of input from the user. I have tested two different mice on two different stone cold, "stock" Windows XP systems, using either PS/2, USB1 or USB2 connections, and all configurations similarly malfunction. I did get a different result, however, when I plugged it into a Windows 2000 box: it crashed the system. Truly, amazingly, god-awful. Hello, Microsoft, anybody home? (I guess the people developing and testing this product were all too busy building their Lake Washington mansions, or their Sun Valley vacation homes, or their Maui vacation homes, or their Montana ranches, or tuning their Porsche GT3s to worry over something as simple as a mouse.)
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Summary: Don't buy this mouse!
Review: Don't buy this mouse. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, it's junk. As the other reviewers here stated, this mouse has a mind of its own and jumps around to the corners of the screen, even when used on a mousepad with either the ps/2 or usb connectors. It's a shame because I like the smaller size, lighter weight and feel in general.I bought 2 of these on sale for $5 each and returned them both. Have since bought another brand's optical and it has worked flawlessly so far.
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Summary: Also found it buggy
Review: Don't waste your time with this mouse!
I purchased this mouse and found (like most people) that the cursor randomly jumped around the screen. It did this on both my PC and my Mac. So I exchanged it for another one, same thing. Seems like this model is just consistently buggy. Save yourself some time and don't buy this mouse.
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Summary: Just as the title says, BASIC optical mouse is basic..
Review: First, let me say I got this mouse for no cost after rebate (well other than tax), so I may be less critical. I would probably give this mouse '3' stars, if the price wasn't so low at most retailers...but the price is often a steal. I'd say it gives you a good bang for your buck. This is not a high end mouse, what can you expect? It's a BASIC optical mouse, meang that it's a plain, regular optical mouse, no visually unique look and no fancy extra buttons to program, but it's got the buttons you need. I would say if you get a good price, it's not a bad mouse to have. Even with it's 'jumpy' problem, which I had only experienced in the first week of use, it's still pretty decent. The problem people are talking about is sometimes the lazer goes nuts and the curser moves somewhere on screen where you didn't put it. I use a Dell mouse pad that came with my PC with the mouse; although mouse pads are optional with optical 'mice,' with the mouse pad I experience less of these problems with the mouse taking on a mind of its own. Also make sure to adjust your scroll wheel settings, in fact you need to change your settings in the control panel. It's seems leaving, say, scroll wheel mouse settings, makes the mouse behave strangely. The mouse doesn't come with software, this is why I point this out. Adjust the mouse speed and you should be fine.
Also a nice feature is you can hook it up to a free USB port or traditional mouse port (comes with a connector). Conclusion: A bad mouse for gamers, graphic designers (although I tinker with photoshop and this serves okay for me, as I'm a college kid saving some $), but a good mouse for the everyday, basic PC user. I am on my computer alot, so I spend alot of time with this mouse and I have nothing amazing or terrible to say about it. Hope this helps somewhat.
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Summary: YUK! Now, WHERE is my pointer again??
Review: I bought this mouse because it was cheap. It would have been cheaper to just get the more expensive one I'm going to have to get anyway. What good is a mouse that keeps losing its pointer?? Here I am back to hot keying, until I get back to town.... Whatever mouse I end up getting, it won't be Microsoft brand. However good their other products MIGHT be, this mouse has ruined their reputation with me. It was foolish of them to release it untested.
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Summary: Nothing fancy, but optical and CHEAP!
Review: I bought this simply because I needed a USB mouse (no PS/2 port on my laptop). I couldn't find any USB ball mice, but I'm glad to have optical anyway. It's so cheap I don't feel like I'm wasting money on that feature. This mouse is about as simple as it gets; 2 buttons and a wheel, but sometimes simplicity is a nice thing; I didn't want anything fancy. As far as the unexpected cursor jumping problem, I've had the mouse almost two weeks and I just started noticing that today. It only happens when I start moving the mouse and very infrequently. Also, I think it may only happen with some surfaces that the scanner can get confused on. It's only happened on a mouse pad for me. So it has a slight problem and no extra features, but it's comfortable and a great deal for the price.
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Summary: Great Value for the Money - Why Are Others Complaining???
Review: I don't understand why other reviewers were trashing this mouse. For the price, you can't beat its functionality. Sure, it's not as "high tech" looking as other, more expensive optical mice but it's still ergonomically comfortable (and I have petite hands). I haven't experienced any of the problems other reviewers mentioned. The nice added advantage of this mouse is that it comes with a PS/2 adapter so you can plug it in a PS/2 port (which comes in handy if your USB port has something else plugged into it). For just over 10 bucks, try this one out as your starter optical mouse. When you get more sophisticated in your usage, you may then want to consider the higher end, higher priced mice but for a novice like myself, this is a good starting option.
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Summary: Bad mouse
Review: I have a MS Optical Intellimouse at home, which is great, so was happy when boss ordered a dozen of these basic optical ones for work. Wow, they're really bad. Mouse pointer jumps all over the place whether using USB or the PS2/USB dongle (that is even worse). Brought in my Intellimouse from home, works a treat. So loads of these mice, tried on different PCs, all rubbish. I have gone back to the IBM 2 button ball mouse I was using :( all of us at work are disapointed.
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Summary: Garbage -- 0 stars
Review: I have been employed as a software engineer for the past 20 years. I don't care if this thing IS advertised as a "basic mouse". A mouse ('basic', optical, USB, whatever) should have solid hardware and a device driver that isn't losing track of its position on the screen. Avoid this piece of junk.
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