| | |  | Computers & Add-Ons | Home » » » Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 - Slate | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | This practical optical mouse features a tiny snap-in receiver that plugs into your notebook when you're ready to work, and snaps into your mouse when you're on the go. Extended battery life lets you work longer without interruption. | | | Features: | |
• Wireless notebook mouse
• Long battery life
• Convenient snap-in receiver
• Optical sensor tracks mouse movement
• Designed for use with either hand
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.52 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1019 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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 Very unreliable, doesn't work on many surfaces, drops signal constantlyNov 05, 2009
This mouse has two huge quality issues which makes it useless. The first issue is in its tracking. This mouse will only track at all on certain surface types. It's totally dead on my original mousepad and various other surfaces I tried at first. I have a cheap dell mouse for comparison, and it has never had this problem in 3 years.
Even after finding a mousepad it would actually work on, it still stutters by dropping out intermittently. This is not a signal issue but the fact that optical mice need to track the texture of the mousepad and Microsoft clearly put a very low quality low resolution laser into this device to cut costs. As an engineer the easiest way to demonstrate this is to have a piece of paper with both words and white space - running the mouse over the paper you'll see the on-screen cursor move whenever you glide over words but immediately stop when you glide across white space. Well, the problem with this mouse is it won't work at all on a lot of surfaces, that even the cheapest free Dell mouse will happily register.
I finally found a textured mousepad it would even work on, and thought I fixed the problem. But as I said, periodically it would drop a signal. This was most noticeable because of the second serious flaw in design. When the mouse loses a signal, it essentially stops sending any signal - and that includes mouse clicks! Again, this can be demonstrated with a piece of paper with words and white space - any mouse click during white space will not register because of this bizarre engineering flaw. So if it happens to be unhappy and stutter because of the mousepad texture, it will also ignore the mouseclick I just issued. So I end up having to repeatedly issue mouse clicks just to get one to register.
The problem is I ended up finding textured surfaces that this mousepad would work on, but they can't be used as mousepads (ex. a colorful DVD case, fine wood grained furnature, my jeans, etc..). So I'm sure this mouse will work for somebody who lucks out, but frankly I have 3 mousepads and none of them will work correctly with this.
Bottom line, I pretty much have to return this product because it's useless on any surface I have. The free Dell optical mouse works perfectly, but I wanted to switch to wireless.
Nice to have MouseNov 04, 2009
I bought this mouse for my office laptop and am pretty happy with it. It has nice design and easily shuts off when you insert the USB stick back into the mouse. Installation was not a problem at all as I am using windows and it is a micorsoft mouse. I still have to try it with my Ubuntu box. All in all a good investment.
 works as expectedNov 02, 2009
A little small for my big hands, but I bought it for travel use with my notebook. It works quite well, with no discernable lag or drop outs, and fits easily into one of the pockets in the notebook case. My gear isn't color coordinated, so buying one that cost less due to the color made sense to me.
I'd recommend this mouse.
GoodNov 02, 2009
Good, the product is good and it is working very nice, i liked this product.
easy plug in batteries & playNov 02, 2009
Love it and easy to set up just put battery in and my Laptop did its thing and I use it right away. Love it
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