Mar
11
Belkin MiniScroller Optical 3 Button Mouse
By
- USB/PS2 Compatible
Product Description
Discover fluid, optical motion as you navigate your documents and the Web. The Belkin MiniScroller Optical Mouse uses a digital optical sensor that photographs motion at 1, 500 frames per second. It adapts to most surfaces, including a wall, your thigh, even a wooden board. Advanced, optical technology does away with the awkward and inaccurate operation of a conventional, rubber-ball mechanism, and the embedded optical sensor has no mechanical parts to clean, mainta… More >>
5 Comments
March 11th, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Not mentioned on the box, is the fact that this thing only has a 3 ft cable, useless for a desktop computer. It would be real nice if the manf would include this information. I’m returning it to the store, and I WON’T be looking at another Belkin.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 12:32 PM
This mouse is perfect for your laptop, but is a little small. If you have big hands i suggest a regular mouse.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 1:36 PM
I bought one and it started malfunctioning after one month. Got another one throgh Belkin’s friendly customer service. Used for another month and now it stops working again. I wouldn’t even borther calling them again this time.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Yes, the cord is short. But I got around that by using this laptop mouse with my laptop, which I thought was creative of me. And my mouse hasn’t broken, either. Nothing special…just a slightly-smaller-than-most-mouses portable mouse. Certainly a better choice than the twice-as-expensive Kensington Pocket Mouse Pro (with the nifty-sounding retractable cable), which, like other Kensington products, broke on me hours out of the box. So, Belkin. Good enough.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 11th, 2010 at 5:50 PM
I have to say that this mouse is very well designed for laptop users. It was a great mouse, and, you can read the other reviews to find out how.
I bought this mouse when I bought my Toshiba Laptop for use in school. The mouse worked great:
*Instantly recognized when plugged in.
*Small size perfect for portable use.
*Etc Etc.
The problems started after about 8 months of constant use, being carried from class to class, being unplugged and plugged several times everyday. It worked great untill the cord got a short in it. The mouse started to stop working if you moved the cord close to the USB connector. I fixed this by cutting off about a foot of the cord and the USB connector, and connecting another one. This seemed to solve the problem, but now, after exactly a year of using the mouse, the laser light on it is turning on and off for no apparent reason, and I am afraid I am now shopping for a new mouse.
Therefore I conclude that while this mouse is great for laptops, in is not durabble enough to be called truelly portable. It cannot stand up to the use that a mobile laptop user would give it. However, I have to be fair and mention that the plug on my power supply eventually came off after being plugged and unplugged so often, so this mouse is not the only non-durable laptop item.
Rating: 3 / 5