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Summary: Great as gift
Review: I bought it as a gift for my brother. Its small fits easily in his laptop case and he can use any where he wants to.
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Summary: nice, low-cost mouse if you don't care about comfort
Review: I purchased this mouse because the price was right, but I have some complaints about it. When I move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse, it's hard to put my hand on it so the vertical orientation is perfect - this is because the mouse is a circle, and you can't initially feel where the "front" of it is. Another thing to look out for is the scroll wheel button. You have to press it excessively hard to get it to click, much harder than my Microsoft, or Logitech wheel mouse (aside from the actual button, the scroll wheel is nice). One final caution to perspective buyers - the left and right mouse buttons are about the size of a pencil eraser; I pretty much have to click them with the tip of my finger, rather than resting my finger over them like on a full-size mouse. One thing I absolutely love about the HO97988 is the retractable cord. It works much like a pull down projection screen - pull it all the way out and it locks, and when you're ready to pack up, give it another tug and it winds itself up. This is much more convenient than the other kind of wind up cords, which require you to turn a wheel on the bottom of the unit. Overall it's a good buy if you want a cheap solution to something more efficient than your laptop's integrated pointing device, but if you're someone that's picky about comfort, I recommend getting a different model laptop mouse.
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Summary: Interesting little mouse with short life span
Review: I purchased this to use with my laptop, to go for the whole "small" motif. I should have just purchased a normal sized optical mouse, because the smaller one really offered no advantages, and was a bit too small for my hand...and the hands of most human beings. Anyway, I bought the thing in July, started using it in August, and stopped using it in October once I decided it was just easier to use the pad for working. I started using the mouse again recently once it was time to outline and compile notes. Just today it was working fine, and then without warning the scroll wheel stopped functioning. I tried it on different programs, on a different computer, and no luck - the scroll wheel seems to be kaput. So, it seems the mouse had about 2-3 good months in it before it started breaking down.
In conclusion, I'd say it's a cute mouse for kids, but mostly worthless. I guess it's a good thing they stopped making it!
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Summary: I liked it for two weeks...
Review: I would agree with most reviews here - this is a decent little mouse for the price. However, mine broke after 2 weeks of use. As far as I can tell, the cable has had a failure and can't send a signal anymore. Very aggrivating - I will be buying a better constructed replacement.
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Summary: I liked it for two weeks...
Review: I would agree with most reviews here - this is a decent little mouse for the price. However, mine broke after 2 weeks of use. As far as I can tell, the cable has had a failure and can't send a signal anymore. Very aggrivating - I will be buying a better constructed replacement.
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Summary: It would be perfect only if...
Review: It didn't break... Actually mine lasted about 9 months. But a friend of mine bought one, and it broke within two weeks. But it certainly is a nice looking and very portable little mouse. I will still buy another.
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Summary: It would be perfect only if...
Review: It didn't break... Actually mine lasted about 9 months. But a friend of mine bought one, and it broke within two weeks. But it certainly is a nice looking and very portable little mouse. I will still buy another.
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Summary: GE Optical Mini Mouse this is a neat item
Review: it is a little small but i like it and you actually do have to have drivers for it to work on Win 98se just make sure you unistall all other mouse drivers in use first espacilly other GE Mice drivers took me a bit to figure that out but o well got it to work :-)(drivers are on the win98se disc they come up crystal optical mouse and then you install the GE mouse software) if you have your comp in your bedroom and leave it on it the wheel light makes a good nitelight hehe if ya want something small and cool get this but stay away from it if ya have bad hands or really big hands ok i am out of here
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Summary: Short Love Story
Review: Loved the product but the retraction mechanism failed yesterday after about 3 months of use - I'm heartbroken (I was so in love with it) and on my way to get another one:)
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Summary: My husband loves this mouse
Review: My husband loves this mouse - it is small and easy to use and looks pretty cool too. I am ordering him another so he'll have one at work and at home.
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