Kensington 72117 PocketMouse Pro Wireless Compact Travel USB Mouse (PC/Mac) by Kensington
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Digital camera reviews of Kensington 72117 PocketMouse Pro Wireless Compact Travel USB Mouse (PC/Mac)
Digital camera Review: Works, but so-so quality and poor support
Summary: 2 Stars
Worked right after I plugged into my XP laptop. Glad didn't have to install no driver. But quality is not as good as Logitech or Microsoft products, and customer service is poor... would not answer PC questions! So if you have a Macintosh and hate Apple's sissy mice, this might be for you. Windows users (that's 99% of us) better stay away.Digital camera Review: Worst mouse I've owned
Summary: 1 Stars
1. Drivers provided with mouse do not work with Windows XP. Updating with drivers on website does not help. Defuault XP mouse driver works (sort of-- see below).
2. Mouse locks up several times a day, requiring a hard system reboot to resume operation.
3. mouse occasionally goes into continuous-scroll mode in Microsoft Word and Excel.
I would not recommend this product to anyone.
Digital camera Review: great mouse
Summary: 5 Stars
Works with xp great. No problems. Dropped once and still ticking. BUY IT!Digital camera Review: need to change battery every 3-4days
Summary: 1 Stars
The battery life of this product is really too bad. I need to change the battery every 3-4 days. I don't know how they can put such an inmature product in the market. My another IBM wireless mouse need to be change for several months.Digital camera Review: nice design, poor performance
Summary: 2 Stars
I would first like to say that I don't have experience with other wirelss mice so I don't know if my experience with this one is common to all wireless mice or only with this particular model.When I bought my new laptop I thought it would be nice to have a small mouse since I can't stand using the trackpad or other pointing devices. I decided on this model because of its size, (about the same or slightly smaller than a regular mouse) optical sensor, and wirelessness.
I thought the wireless feature would be nice because I won't have to bother with tangled cords and since this particular mouse has a receiver that can swivel, I thought I won't experience too much problem with the signal not getting picked up (I was wrong). I was also attracted by the fact that the mouse turns itself off when yous store the receiver inside the mouse itself when its not being used, to conserve batteries.
At first, the mouse seems to function well. I plugged it into the laptop and it was ready to go. But after using it for one night, I began to have problems with the signal. At first, double clicking occasionally failed. I would click twice and it would recognize only one click or act as if I had held down the button. I tried swiveling the receiver to try to improve reception but that didn't work. Then the cursor sometimes failed to move when I move the mouse (so it would sometimes have like jumpy movements), again probably due to poor signal. These are occasional annoyances that are tolerable if just browsing the web but I would definitely not want to be using this when playing a computer game. Also, I tried to conserve the batteries by putting the receiver back into its little cubby hole in the mouse whenever i was done with using it (maybe a couple hours of use a day) but still the batteries died within 3 weeks.
I was pretty disappointed with the performance of this mouse and would not recommand it. I've since bought a cheapo corded Fellowes optical notebook mouse and it works great with no problems. Its a bit smaller in size, which I find fits my hand even better. Also, I don't have to worry about batteries dying. It even has two extra buttons on the side that allows you to go back to a previous page or forward to the next page in internet explorer. I bunched up the excess cord with a twist tie and that took care of my worries about tangled cords.