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Summary: A wonderful product, but prepare for installation headaches!
Review: This was the best money I've spent for my computer, besides what I spent for the matching MS Internet Keyboard Pro. This mouse beats anything that Logitech currently offers, and I've been a fan of their mice for years. This mouse has control I've only dreamed of, and has excellent adjustment software. There's only one reason I'm giving this mouse 4 stars, though, and that was the installation. I felt queasy switching over from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse, and I was right. It took me about five reboots and two software reinstallations before I got the mouse to work right, and I could take the old mouse offline. If you are a beginner computer user, you might want to have someone who knows what to do install the mouse for you. Other than that, this product did what it claimed to do, and more.
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Summary: Excellent for 3d games
Review: To the reviewer who said it's lousy for games....I beg to differ. I play Half-Life Team Fortress Classic (mostly as a sniper) and the accuracy and response speed is unmatched by any ball based mouse that I've used. This is the mouse 3d gamers have been waiting for. As much as I hate the company Microsoft, I have to commend them with this great product.
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Summary: If you play games this mouse suck
Review: Hi i dont speak really good english i live in mexico city and i buy the intellimouse only for play games like unreal tournament and the mouse just dont work. the mouse looks cool and works good only for internet no games
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Summary: Never lets me down
Review: Day in, day out I at my keyboard. The day of a systems admin once involved cursing the mouse every so often. Scraping the rollers, cleaning the mouse ball, cleaning the mouse mat. Sometimes I would just end up buying a new mouse.While not at work I needed a perfect working mouse for use in Quake tournaments. A piece of muck in the mouse was too often the difference between a frag and being fragged. Solution... On its own, the Microsoft Intellimouse is an absolute gem. It works on practically any surface and is 100% accurate, 100% of the time. From the outide: At first the size it a bit bulky, but once I adjusted I would never go back to another mouse. The red lit bottom makes the mouse look nearly as good as it performs. Coupled with my Everglide mouse pad, this is the ultimate combo for serious gamers, regular computer users to the first time computer user on any platform. The USB connection makes installation simple (although USB to PS/2 connection is included). Having USB makes this mouse the perfect replacement for the terrible iMac mouse. The last word: An anti Microsoft friend of mine left Sydney a while back to work for the likes of RedHat and VA Linux Systems. He would never be caught with Microsoft products of any kind. When he visited Sydney earlier this year, I caught him using the Intellimouse hooked up to his Linux powered Sony Vaio... "So Raster, why have you stooped so low as to get an MS Mouse?" "'Cause it kicks!"
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Summary: Excellent product
Review: I have both the new IntelliMouse Optical and its predecessor, the IntelliMouse Explorer, both running on Macs. It's difficult to say which I like better, but I would give a slight nod to the Explorer because it fits my hand well, and since it is designed solely for right hand use, it's asymetric shape is more comfortable. I also find the outer "pinky" button on the Optical more difficult to press, although I don't use that button often (the inner button, which by default is set to "Back" in browsers, I use all the time.) The Optical has the advantage of being less expensive, and its smaller size makes it a better choice for sticking in a PowerBook carrying case. It is also very comfortable, and its smaller size makes it feel a bit easier to manuever, though that's probably just psychological. The IntelliMouse Mac software has been trouble-free for me, the only thing I wish it had (which the Kensington Mac driver offers) is a choice to configure a button to pop up a contextual menu to switch among open applications. When the four button Kensington ADB mouse on my home machine wears out (as it undoubtedly will), I'll buy a third IntelliMouse to replace it.
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Summary: I think it is a winner!
Review: On the box, Microsoft makes a point to say this mouse works on hundreds of surfaces, even your jeans. I guess that might be useful for some people, but for me I really like the fact that as I sit here in my hotel room sitting on the bed with my laptop that it works perfectly on the soft surface of the bedspread, and I don't even have it laying flat. I can move the mouse pointer to exactly where I want it effortlessly without even really moving the mouse anywhere, just rocking it in its position. It works fine on the desk too. I find the shape and size of the mouse is just right for my hand. I thought the high end model was a bit bulky, and the low end was two small. I would think deciding which of the three to buy would need to be based purely on how it fits your hand although the lowest model doesn't have the extra two buttons on the sides, which I am already finding almost as useful as the scroll wheel. I would try to see all three before you make a decision, I am sure one of the three would be comfortable for almost anybody, but I think this one is the best even though it isn't the most expensive. If there is one thing I hate it is when the wheels in my mouse start to get covered with crud and the mouse starts jerking and you can't quite get the mouse pointer to stop where you want it no matter how hard you try. Then you have to try to scrape the crud off the wheels, but it is really hard and almost like a part of the wheel itself. You all know what I am talking about. I am glad I will never have to worry about it again. Why didn't anyone do this before?
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Summary: Overall Great Mouse!
Review: This mouse is great! The fact that it uses Optical technology is very hepful and you will never have to worry about cleaning out the ball and the rollers inside the mosue again. The extra buttons on the side allow you to customize commands such as cut,paste,copy, etc... This mouse is light and easy to use. It is definitely worth the price.
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Summary: Once you try it, you'll never go back.
Review: I thought to myself: that wheel will throw me off, I'll never use those buttons on the side, and that IR thingy... that must not work. I was wrong. Get this mouse. You'll love it. You'll never go back.
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Summary: Even I liked it
Review: I'm not Microsoft's biggest fan. I have a secret desire for the Justice Department to treat them the same way the Allies treated the Axis. Yet, I have to admit: They got one right. When my ADB "Dove bar" mouse, the one that came with my PowerCenter, gave out, I decided to go with this one, and have few regrets. You will, of course, need a USB card if you're using an older Mac (do IBM-PC clones have USB yet?), but if you have a recent Blueberry tower or iMac, you can just replace the mouse that's included with this one. The IntelliMouse Optical comes with drivers which installed without trouble on my Mac OS 8.6 System. Its "IntelliPoint" control panel allows you to set up options for its five buttons (the center "wheel" counting as one), and the choices are wide enough so that you can configure it the way you want. I, for example, use the right button as the single-click (since I grab the mouse crosswise). The side buttons are set up for my most-used OneClick macros: Previous Application and Next Application. The wheel is handy-- when it works. Microsoft only warrants that it'll work with Microsoft software. Even this is not always the case: sometimes it won't scroll an Internet Explorer page. It works sporadically in BBEdit, and often slows to a crawl in Eudora. Only in Finder windows does it seem completely trouble-free. Occasionally the mouse will just plain stop working, requiring a restart or an unplug/replug of the ADB connector in the maze of wires in back of your computer. Microsoft has not yet offered a fix, and of course their tech support is nearly impossible to maneuver. Good luck getting this fixed once they have your money. The poor wheel action and the awful tech support is the reason I reduced a five-star rating to three. You definitely need a reliable mouse plugged in as a backup. However, one advantage stands out uniquely: No mouse ball! Do you know what this means to a pet owner? No more picking cat hair out of those rollers! This alone would make it a good choice. If only it came in tangerine...
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Summary: What took them so long.
Review: Finally a mouse i don't have to clean. No ball, just a funky red light. I have had this mouse since they first became available and it still works flawless. Two seconds to install, easy easy easy! It is great for browsing the internet. Besides the standard two buttons it has a center wheel which i like to call it which you can turn to simply make a webpage scroll up and down. It also has two buttons where your thumb sits which are basically your BACK and FORWARD buttons on your internet browser. This mouse is simply the best one there is.
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