Macally iSweet Net USB Mouse

Rating:
Summary: Nice Mouse but Beware
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Nice Mouse but Beware
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Dependable mouse, it even beats the optical version
Review: 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.