Microsoft Intellimouse Optical Mouse

I LOVED this mouse at first. It’s a big improvement over my old mouse that had a ball. Recently, the side buttons started to lose their programming. I didn’t even change it; I kept the default settings. Sometimes I find myself opening my mouse software every few minutes to click the OK button, just to make the side buttons work. I wish I had bought the cheaper one, but I don’t feel like going through the hassle of returning this mouse and hooking up another one.

I’m adding to this. I gave away that mouse 2 two years ago, when I bought a new computer. An optical mouse came with the computer. I do NOT miss the extra buttons.

Like most I run through computer mice and other pointing devices on a regular basis. Long ago I gave up the ball mouse for an optical version. This one’s nice in that you can program all the controls for your preferences or leave it at default as it came from the factory.

When surfing or doing work, knowing you can just slighly move a finger or thumb and go back or forward a website, or forward or back a page in a document you’re working on, very nice.

One of the better features is the scroll wheel. Like most, you can program it for how fast scolling will be (light speed or a slow crawl) but when you depress the wheel all the open windows adjust on your desktop, all displayed. Now all you need to do is move to the one you want to work on, click it and ta da, that’s now the active window…wait, not the right one? Not a problem, click the scroll wheel again and you’re right back to all the open windows displayed, pick another.

Lightweight, sturdy, good choice for those who don’t want to change batteries all the time.

like the title says, this mouse is a great value, sitting between the intellimouse explorer and intellimouse wheel. it fits my hand perfectly too, as it is not as big at the explorer.
fuctionwise, the tracking is unparalleled–the new intellieye scanning at 6,000 times per second makes the mouse virtually skip-free, unlike older optical mice. the 5 fully programmable buttons are awesome too. the inteiipoint software allows you to assign different functions to different buttons, in different programs! i even have a button that saves my document in microsoft word! it’s really a brilliant invention.
my only gripe about this mouse is its weight. it is on the light side, and i hear the hollow cluck every time i pick it up when i’m playing a game. i’ve grown used to it by now, but it took a couple of weeks.
in short, i believe this is the perfect mouse for me. its optical eye works great, the buttons are ingenious, and the low price at amazon.com (…) make this mouse the best bang for your buck!