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0.5 stars
"So Much For Ergonomic Computing"
Pros: Shown Below
Cons: Shown Below
Summary: Pros:
1.Long battery life (as advertised);
2.Handsome (as you can see);
3.Durable (as long as you don't toss it to the trash can);
Cons:
1.Inhumanly awk-gonomic design (to make everyday of my life not worth living);
2.Imprecise pointer movement (makes a mouse a pile of beautiful plastic cr@p);
3.Very short range (anyone knows how to make a wired mouse out of a wireless one?);
4.Nonproductive tilt wheel (I'm dare to say: "The Emperor is naked!");
5.Tricky buttons ("tricky" here is the exact opposite of "sticky");
6.Thumb buttons (your highness);
7.Non-customizable buttons (makes the tilt wheel even more useless);
8.Huge Receiver and
9.Mouse too (for the size, I expect greater range);
10.Inconstant scroll speed in Vista
11.Durable and
12.Pricy (so I can't get ride of it easily);
10 + 3 - 12 = 1
Rating Explained:
Leave the Pros part,
Con1: A great leap backward, this mouse is too high. For most people, a wrist rest is needed to elevate the hand to accomodate the steep shape. This mouse gets reviewed by my doc, and in his qualified PROFESSIONAL opinion, this thing is made especially for Shrek. I'm suffer from CTS in years, I thought my right hand finally home when I saw this mouse, apparently, I was wrong.
Con2: Don't need explaination, grab IE3 and drag a window and move it slowly, you can still see the text inside the window with little joggling. do the same thing with this mouse and you'll understand what I'm saying.
Con3: Even the receiver is placed just a few inches from the mouse, the signal gets droped sometimes, but not too often.
Con4. The Tilt Wheel is not as useful as it looks. scroll horizontally could be a pain, it either too fast or too slow since it's just two on/off microswitches.
Con5: Now this one is tricky, this mouse releases the left button if no significant amount of pressure is on its shoulder. that means the microswitch sends "I'm OFF." to the PC even your finger tells you a different story. (a friend of a friend of mine who owned this mouse has exact the same problem. so this could be general.)
Con6: As CNET reviewed.
Con7: The Tilt Wheel consists of 3 microswitches, However, the only one that is customizable is the middle-button. since the tilt wheel is not much of a handy function, why not let us customize it to fit our needs? my investment yields little return on this stupid wheel.
Con8 & 9: The size of the receiver and the mouse is "tremendous", Microsoft surely did a poor job on portability.
Con10: The Tilt Wheel is a dead tech, but I can still use the good ol' vertical scroll till it decided to gone nutty under Vista. In some programs, the wheel is extremely sensitive and in others, helplessly slow. now I've sealed the wheel with glue to avoid accidental touch that kills my vib.
Con11 & 12: Those two cons are deadly.
Buttom line: For the name (Natural), for the brand and for the price, I expect more. Don't buy this if you have average sized hands and has CTS like me. You'll regret buying this. Mark my words.
Where to buy
Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000:
$36.08 - $79.99
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