IBM Optical Wireless Mouse

by IBM

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000083GEM
• Item model number: 31P6662
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2002

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OK, except for one HUGE flaw, May 18, 2003

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RRS (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM Optical Wireless Mouse (Personal Computers)

At a first glance, this is a good mouse just because it's wireless and optical. It's comfortable, and the scroll wheel is just smooth enough. Unfortunately, it has one big problem which forced me to return the mouse and exchange it for the far super Logitech MX700 mouse. The problem is this: the mouse falls asleep if you leave it alone for a minute or so, and then you have to move it quite a bit before it wakes up. So, whenever you want to move the mouse after leaving it alone for a bit, it just doesn't respond for several seconds. This is incredibly annoying. So I wouldn't recommend this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buy a Logitech, March 19, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: IBM Optical Wireless Mouse (Personal Computers)

This mouse is nice and comfortable, the scroll wheel is smooth and thats about all that is good. The mouse falls asleep like the other reviewers said and it is extremely annoying to try to get it to wake up every five seconds. I just bought a Wireless Logitech mouse for my laptop and have tried my friends Logitech mouse and they are both smooth and dont fall asleep. You move it and they move right away. With this IBM you have to click and click and wait then it decides to wake up. Horrible.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Amen to that One Fatal Flaw, August 15, 2003

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Alvin (Walnut, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM Optical Wireless Mouse (Personal Computers)

As has been discussed in other reviews, that "fall asleep" attribute is extremely annoying. Sometimes you feel like you need to slam it against the wall to wake the blasted thing back up. I returned mine for a refund.

I suppose it's a "feature" to preserve battery life. I think I can afford to buy a few more batteries, thank you. If the manufacturers really want this "feature," then they should have provided a mechanism that allows the user to configure it. E.g., "go to sleep" after 15 minutes of inactivity instead of 2.

I should add that the software package that comes with it has problems as well. In particular, there's a "sonar" feature that locates the mouse pointer for you when you press the "Ctrl" key. Unfortunately, this feature "breaks" too easily, especially if you try it after the mouse has "gone to sleep." Then it won't work again until after a reboot. (My system is Win98 1st Edition; obviously your mileage may vary on other versions of Windows.)