Customer Reviews

Kensington K72213USA Mouse-in-a-Box Optical 2 USB Mouse (PC/Mac) (72213)

5 star:		(56)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I'm a Mac nut. In ten years of using mac products the one thing I've never been impressed with is their mice.
This little Kensington does everything you want with a left click/right click scroll wheel mouse. It's well built, solid, and operates smoothly. It puts apples worthless mighty mouse to shame.

In 1984 when I bought my first Macintosh, I was so computer illiterate that it remained on my desk for two weeks as I circled around, gathering the courage to open the instruction book and learn from scratch. I recall how my daughters laughed at my "conservatism." Mom was actually afraid of a little ol' computer.

Needless to say, I mastered that machine, Words, PageMaker, Quicken, PhotoShop, and every program thrown at me in the course of publishing my own newspaper in Silicon Valley over a period of 15 years. I never procrastinated on any of the software as I had on the Mac (that cute little one with the ten-inch screen ... Remember?).

Anyway, I'm a creature of habit and would NOT give up my BALL mouse for anything. So when my daughter Deb got me this Kensington 2-button, scroll wheel model, I wouldn't let the mouse out of the box. I got it for Christmas and didn't touch it until a few days ago. Playing "chicken" again!

Well, I must tell you I'm as thrilled with this little gadget as I was with my Macintosh. I can't believe I didn't make my life easier by switching to this more up-to-date, easier-to-use mouse years ago. Wow! It's awesome.

Like the ads say, this mouse's optical technology works like a breeze with my Mac. ... Right out of the box, it matched my fastest movements, scrolling around the screen like an INDIE 500 race-car. I love it!

Yes, you can teach an old "dog" new tricks.

Reviewed by: Betty Dravis, 2008

Just bought this from Kensington at a better price! This is a bare bones two button with scroll wheel mouse. It feels good in the hand, functions the way it should and doesn't even come with software! uses the drivers you already have - no problems on my Mac at all. Scroll wheel works excellently which has been an issue with other mice on the Mac without a dedicated driver installed. Couldn't be more simple. If you are looking for a four or five button mouse - this isn't the one! I love the looks which complement my eMac very nicely. Kensington has a good warranty and I know from experience that they stand behind it. Of the four or so Kensington mice I have purchased over the last 15 or so years for several computers - 2 at home and one at work, I have had to replace one - and they sent it out promptly - no hassle.

I bought this mouse relying on the Kensington name brand. Since I bought it, this mouse has continually given me one problem: I'll be holding the left button down, trying to drag the cursor over something, and suddenly I find that the cursor is no longer 'dragging.' It's as thought the mouse 'forgot' that I was holding down the button. This can get very annoying, and sometimes even problematic, since this odd behavior can cause some very strange results when using multiple monitors... windows jumping to places they shouldn't be, windows disappearing entirely, and others. There is another review here with a similar complaint, so this doesn't seem to be an isolated issue. I do not recommend this mouse.

EDIT TO ADD: After contacting Kensington about my problem, they sent me a replacement mouse free of charge, no questions asked. (The tech support guy spoke with such a thick Indian accent I could hardly understand him, but that's a different story...) After a bit of usage, the new mouse developed the same problem the old one had.

It's NOT wireless. It's NOT touch sensitive. It does NOT have ten buttons. But it IS a nice $15 mouse.

If you don't mind having a USB cable, don't like replacing (or charging) batteries, don't want to remember "multi-touch" gestures, and think three buttons plus scroll-wheel is more than enough, this mouse is an excellent choice. It has the usual left and right buttons plus a scroll-wheel that clicks down as the third button. For me, it replaced an old "standard" Microsoft optical mouse that died after many years of use.

I use mine with an iMac. From the pictures, I thought this mouse was white, but it is actually a very bright silver on the top half and black on the bottom half. It looks good on a Mac desktop. It will obviously also work with a Windows PC; it even comes with one of those green USB to PS/2 adapter plugs.

No additional software is needed, or even available. The "Instruction Guide" has one step; plug it in. For using with a Mac, the standard Mac OS X mouse driver works fine. You can set it to click and "right" (control) click with either button. You can adjust the tracking and scroll-wheel sensitivity. The scroll-wheel has a nice feel, and the mouse is easy to slide around. It is high enough (unlike Apple's devices) to allow my palm to partially rest on the mouse, and the overall shape is comfortable. The cord is quite long. The location where you place your thumb (and the opposing side) has a slight "reverse angle" (gets wider at the top), which is a thoughtful design that makes lifting the mouse easy without pressing too hard to grip the mouse.

One thing you cannot set directly (with a Mac) is the "center" (scroll-wheel) click action, but if you have Apple's Mighty Mouse that came with the Mac (even if broken), you can set up the center click action. Just plug in the Mighty Mouse; the Mouse System Preferences panel will change. Set the action for the "scroll-ball" click as desired. After unplugging the Mighty Mouse, the Kensington Mouse will continue to perform that same action as the center click. I have mine set to do Exposé, and for that particular setting (and for Spaces), you can also just use the Exposé & Spaces System Preferences panel and set it to use the "Middle Mouse Button" (no Mighty Mouse needed).

So in summary, Kensington offers a nice-looking, inexpensive, truly plug-and-play, and comfortable "regular" mouse that gets the job done without fanfare.

...and you know that I think about negative reviews on this mouse, it is either wrote by other companies' mm or people with so much malware & spyware on their computers that they can hardly know what's going on their screens. I bought this mouse about year ago. I was looking for a simple optical mouse with the cable (wireless is just a waste of money -> on batteries, unless you're on the go all the time) and found it. I dropped it more than 10 times, spilled drinks nothing happened. It is nicely designed and comfortably fit in your hand. Splurge few bucks even on used one you won't regret it and it'll work for the next 2 years unless you steamroll it.

Well, I read the reviews for this mouse, and since it had mostly 5 star raitings, I decided to buy it.

I just recieved it today and already it has given me problems. The mouse curser, either clicked on something or while being moved, moves on it's own around the screen and sometimes dissapears.

I'm most likely going to return it.

I went through two Mighty Mice and a Magic mouse the past couple of years and was constantly frustrated by each. The former were plagued by scroll wheel problems; the latter had connectivity and response issues with my Mac Pro. Going back to a corded mouse seemed like a regression, but it has turned out to be a godsend. As a photographer, I use the mouse for precision editing when I'm not using an Intous tablet, and it has been so effective for me I find myself using the tablet less and less. The scrolling works flawlessly three months after first use. The ergonomics are good. It's $15 - a terrific deal!

This mouse is all that I expected and more. It surpasses the one that came with my IMac. Has a wheel to navigate and is a lot of fun to use.Came real fast from the vendor and in great condition.

I hestitated buying this mouse, I didn't think the price was high enough to provide a great working mouse. It works so well and I'm so happy with it that I believe I will purchase another one for my other computer and say goodbye to mouseballs forever.