IBM Optical Wireless Mouse

Rating:
Summary: Amen to that One Fatal Flaw
Review: As has been discussed in other reviews, that "fall asleep" attribute is extremely annoying. Sometimes you feel like you need to slam it against the wall to wake the blasted thing back up. I returned mine for a refund.

I suppose it's a "feature" to preserve battery life. I think I can afford to buy a few more batteries, thank you. If the manufacturers really want this "feature," then they should have provided a mechanism that allows the user to configure it. E.g., "go to sleep" after 15 minutes of inactivity instead of 2.

I should add that the software package that comes with it has problems as well. In particular, there's a "sonar" feature that locates the mouse pointer for you when you press the "Ctrl" key. Unfortunately, this feature "breaks" too easily, especially if you try it after the mouse has "gone to sleep." Then it won't work again until after a reboot. (My system is Win98 1st Edition; obviously your mileage may vary on other versions of Windows.)

Rating:
Summary: Amen to that One Fatal Flaw
Review: As has been discussed in other reviews, that "fall asleep" attribute is extremely annoying. Sometimes you feel like you need to slam it against the wall to wake the blasted thing back up. I returned mine for a refund.

I suppose it's a "feature" to preserve battery life. I think I can afford to buy a few more batteries, thank you. If the manufacturers really want this "feature," then they should have provided a mechanism that allows the user to configure it. E.g., "go to sleep" after 15 minutes of inactivity instead of 2.

I should add that the software package that comes with it has problems as well. In particular, there's a "sonar" feature that locates the mouse pointer for you when you press the "Ctrl" key. Unfortunately, this feature "breaks" too easily, especially if you try it after the mouse has "gone to sleep." Then it won't work again until after a reboot. (My system is Win98 1st Edition; obviously your mileage may vary on other versions of Windows.)

Rating:
Summary: OK, except for one HUGE flaw
Review: At a first glance, this is a good mouse just because it's wireless and optical. It's comfortable, and the scroll wheel is just smooth enough. Unfortunately, it has one big problem which forced me to return the mouse and exchange it for the far super Logitech MX700 mouse. The problem is this: the mouse falls asleep if you leave it alone for a minute or so, and then you have to move it quite a bit before it wakes up. So, whenever you want to move the mouse after leaving it alone for a bit, it just doesn't respond for several seconds. This is incredibly annoying. So I wouldn't recommend this one.

Rating:
Summary: Does Not Support Accelleration!
Review: I installed an IBM Optical Wireless Mouse on my work pc. It seemed to work just fine until I noticed that it kept losing the Medium acceleration setting. Every few minutes the mouse started to move very slowly. To get it across the screen I had to pick it up and stroke it across a portion of my desk several times. Every time this happened I went into the mouse setup dialog and found that the acceleration had changed from Medium to None. If I re-selected Medium the mouse worked normally until the next incident. This interval of good acceleration varied from several minutes to over an hour.

When I called the Mouse's Tech Support the Tech said "Oh, that mouse doesn't support acceleration because it runs at such a high frequency".

How do you like that double-talk to excuse a piece of junk?!

I made the mistake of buying 2 of these lousy mice. The other one I installed on my home pc and the acceleration worked fine. This mouse was installed in a PS/2 port under Windows 2000. This machine runs 2 operating systems. When I tried to install the mouse's driver under Windows 98 the install routine abended. Once this happened Win98 stopped recognizing the mouse. I tried to uninstall the driver but Win98 did not seem to know anything about the driver. I switched to a plain wired un-optical PS/2 mouse and Win98 did not recognize that mouse either. When I booted Win2K it locked up on the sign-on screen and would not recognize the keyboard or the mouse. When I forced Win2K into Safe mode it hung up the same way. I finally discovered that the only way to get Win2K to function was to unplug the mouse. At this point I went to RadioShack and bought a corded USB mouse and both Win2K and Win98 have been working ever since.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND THAT ANYONE PURCHASE AN IBM WIRELESS OPTICAL MOUSE!

Rating:
Summary: Buy a Logitech
Review: This mouse is nice and comfortable, the scroll wheel is smooth and thats about all that is good. The mouse falls asleep like the other reviewers said and it is extremely annoying to try to get it to wake up every five seconds. I just bought a Wireless Logitech mouse for my laptop and have tried my friends Logitech mouse and they are both smooth and dont fall asleep. You move it and they move right away. With this IBM you have to click and click and wait then it decides to wake up. Horrible.