Kensington 64322 Studio USB Mouse Designed for Mac (PC/Mac)

by Kensington

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• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000067DUW
• Item model number: 64322
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 29, 2004

Product Description

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The Kensington 64322 Studio USB Mouse Designed for Mac is a precision mouse designed with a Macintosh touch. The Kensington 64322 features a precision feel and fingertip control that is a perfect match for the Macintosh, with a host of one-touch options and optical technology that lets you put your creative effort where you want it. This mouse has three programmable buttons that let you launch functions with a single click, and a scroll sensor that navigates long web pages and documents with the touch of a finger. With exceptional value and performance this mouse is designed to work for both right- and left-handed users. The Kensington 64322 comes in a stylish translucent silver to compliment your Mac, with DiamondEye optical technology that allows it to respond to even your fastest movements with accurate tracking on virtually any surface. The Kensington 64322 comes with long-lasting reliability that is backed by a five-year manufacturer's warranty and free technical support.

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Kensington (64322) Studio Mouse

Customer Reviews

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth the Price, July 29, 2002

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S. WIlliams (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kensington 64322 Studio USB Mouse Designed for Mac (PC/Mac) (Personal Computers)

As a longtime Mac fan I recently purchased Kensington's much-hyped StudioMouse "designed especially for Mac OS X."

Anyway, I basically wanted a nice, optical, corded, two button mouse with a scroll wheel.

I like the three button design (OS X is the first Mac OS that makes having a right-click option really useful) but I LOATHE the "touch scroll" in the middle. Give me a good, old-fashioned rubberized scroll wheel any day. The touch screen is flakey to the core and doesn't work if you've clicked ON (or even near) a scroll bar, plus it's near impossible to control the degree of scrolling, even with Kensington's MouseWorks software. I find myself scrolling the "old fashioned way" (clicking into the scroll bar and manipulating the up/down arrows with the mouse) 99.9% of the time.

There are much better mice on the market, for a lot less. Don't buy into Kensington's "designed for Mac" bull.

Though, I will say that one positive is that the mouse worked fine, straight out of the box (left and right click, plus scrolling feature, all operable in OS 10.1.5 with no software installed--only the third mini button did nothing). The MouseWorks 2.0 software (doesn't come with, must be downloaded) for OS X works great but is only necessary if you want configure clicks to different functions.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Nice!, December 12, 2005

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Michael Picagli (Long Island-New York, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kensington 64322 Studio USB Mouse Designed for Mac (PC/Mac) (Personal Computers)

I have two of these mice, one I have owned for 3 years.
I have come to know this product very well...so let's get to it.

The design is great, shape and color are fantastic.
The Sensor scroll works supurbly! I never had an issue with it. All it takes is very light pressure and it scrolls..works fantastic. I had to get used to the pad at first because it's really different then the standard wheel. But once you get the feel for it, I think you'll enjoy it. Below the sensor scroll is an oval button that allows you to switch from horizonal scrolling to vertical scrolling, I have used this more then I thought. And it shows Kensington didn't skimp out on this feature.

I rest my finger on the sensor itself as I browse, as i do with a scroll wheel. And sometimes if my finger hits the scroll areas of the sensor, it scrolls when i dont want it to. You have to get the feel for it. The little bugger is quite sensitive to touch.
Once your used to it, I think most people will be fine, but it's worth noting.

The mouse has a very low profile, which is awesome for laptop users. I can put this thing in my laptop case with no problems, and it's a full sized mouse!! The thin design, plus the flat sensor scroll make this a great regular sized mouse for protability.
I hate those teeny-tiny mice they sell for laptops, and carrying around other full size mice require a seperate bag to clip onto your laptop case...very combersome. So I really appriciate the body design of this mouse.

Now I have two of these, one is a replacement and I'll explaign why. The white part of the mouse has a thin grip coating on it. After time, it "will" get dirty, especially the thumb side. It will even wear away. Which makes it look darn ugly and takes away from the good looks of this mouse, BUT! It's not as bad as you think. Under the coating is a very smooth shiny white plastic. You can easily scratch away the coating and your mouse will look new again. I actually liked it better, but Kensington should just remove that coating. Even Better News, before I tried scratching off the coating, I called Kensington about it. They sent me a whole new replacement mouse!! And this one came with a better USB plug + an extention cable! I haven't used the extention but I can see it being useful if your cords go behind your desk.

The replacement mouse works just as well as the previous one..I have had the replacement a year now. The snesor works the same. And all the buttons work great! Although, recently this one has started to drop the usb connection. Requireing me to unplug and replug the mouse in to get it to work. It's defective, and it happens sometimes. I have the feeling Kensington will replace it with no problem since they replaced my old one for just cosmetic problems..so I'm not worried. Other than that, I really like this mouse.

The old one, which I gave to a family member still works 100% with no problem!

So aside from some cosmetic issues and one defective unit. The mouse is really nice.

I think this mouse will appeal to anyone who wants a low profile regular sized mouse for laptops. Whos interested in having a unique scroll technology, and an overall good looking product.

Does the sensor scroll work better than a wheel?
Not really, but it's very interesting..and it does work. And it does provide a few noteworthy features normally not found with a scroll wheel. The button to switch scrolling panes and it's flat design, so you don't have a scroll wheel adding hieght to the mouse.
Another added benefit to the sensor is you don't have to deal with ANNOYING clicking scroll wheels! Clicking scroll wheels suck! The noise & the feel of them.
So I really enjoy the silence and smoothness of Kensington's sensor scroll technology.

Kensington's mouseworks software is ok, the only real feature it adds is an onscreen directional scroll, so you can use mouse movement to scroll all over the place without using the sensor. Some people may like it, but I find it annoying.

I have used these mice with my Mac G4 and my Dell laptop, works great on both systems with exactly the same features and programabiliy.

Would I reccomend this to others? Yes.
Would I buy this for someone as a gift? Yes.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Inconsistent results, June 8, 2003

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M. Holmes "otomoooo" (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kensington 64322 Studio USB Mouse Designed for Mac (PC/Mac) (Personal Computers)

Used on a Mac OS X machine running 10.2.6. I found the other reviews really interesting because of their inconsistency. Many had trouble with the scroll pad, yet that part worked perfectly for me. The right clicking was also perfect. Where I had problems was in basic (left) clicking. I don't think it was an RF problem. I tried both channels, and as I said above, most of the functions worked fine.

Half the time it was as if the mouse (or perhaps the receiver cradle) would not detect a mouse up event. I'd click, and the system acted as if I was holding the mouse down. If I then quickly moved the pointer, usually the mouse up would get acknowledged.

The other half of the problem was mouse clicks not being registered at all if I clicked too fast. However, "too fast" for the Studio Mouse was no problem for any other mouse I?ve ever used. I had to force my self to hold the button in the down position a little longer than is natural for me. So what that gave me was a tiny timing window between "too fast" of a click and the system deciding I was holding the mouse button down. Argh! The last place you want to deal with thinking precisely about how fast you do something is with basic mouse input. The mouse ceases to be an extension of my mind and body.

There's probably something amiss in the mouse driver for the Mac OS. I suspect a conflict of some sort because it does seem to work fine for some, but I don't have a lot of extensions in my system. Unfortunately. I find I have little desire to spend the time and effort to track down a problem with something as basic as mouse clicks. Sorry Kensington, but it's back to the wired Intellimouse for me on the Mac.

All is not lost. The Studio Mouse drivers for Windows seem to not have these problems, so I'll be bringing it to work where I'm forced to use PCs, and I have a situation of a fairly long distance between my mouse area and the PC case. I bought it for the Mac, though, so that's why the 2 stars.