Macally USB Optical Scroll Mouse for Desktop/portable Mac

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006BAPE
• Item model number: IOPTINET-USB
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2002

Product Description

MODEL- iOPTINET VENDOR- MACALLY FEATURES- iOptiNet USB Optical Internet Mouse A full-size optical mouse that is fully programmable and scrolling features make navigating your Mac a breeze. No more cleaning of your mouse ball and no more need for a mouse pad. Works on many different kinds of surfaces like wood and plastic. Includes 6 different color 'Jackets' to match your personal flavors. * 100% compatible with iMac or G3 MacOS 9.0 or later. * No moving parts to clean. * Fully programmable buttons with scroll wheel. REQUIRES- MacOS 9.0 or later Any desktop or notebook computer with an available USB port.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Does what it's supposed to do, January 31, 2005

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Guillermo Fausto Guzman Lozano "Internationalist" (Tampico, Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macally USB Optical Scroll Mouse for Desktop/portable Mac (Personal Computers)

I bought this Mouse a few years ago and it worked very well, this optical version is much lighter than the wheel version, has the same functions at the same price and it works smoothly. Both versions were good for something like 3 years, then the buttons started to have problems.
I think the product is worth the price, but now you can find many other options out there.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tiny workhorse., July 7, 2006

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Christopher D. Mueller (Monterey, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macally USB Optical Scroll Mouse for Desktop/portable Mac (Personal Computers)

I don't have much to add to the previous two reviews.

What else is notable? I've been using this mouse for 3 years now. I swap it between my Mac at home and HP laptop on the road, so I put it through a lot. Only now has one of the pads on the mouse's belly worn off, so it doesn' slide around quite as easily. Everything else has exceeded what I'd expect from an optical scroll mouse for under 20$. Highly recommended.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not so impressed, October 5, 2006

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doogie (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Macally USB Optical Scroll Mouse for Desktop/portable Mac (Personal Computers)

Points for working immediately when simply plugged into my G5 Mac (running Panther 10.3.9) using built-in driver. Other than that, a bit of a mess. Red laser-y light leaks everywhere--top, sides, front--and is surprisingly bright. Annoying, especially if you do photo editing in a darkened room, and makes the cute translucent shells pretty useless as the block even less of the red light than the opaque silver one that comes attached. Does not play well with Wacom tablet driver installed (I need to switch back and forth for Photoshop work)--using scroll wheel at all caused hard freeze until Wacom completely uninstalled. Shipped with WAY old driver (4.0 vs. 5.3 now on less-than-clear support site). Not sure why you would even bother to install the Macally driver unless you really need assignable keys, as track/scroll speed controls are exactly the same as in System Prefs (yeah, you can set those basic speeds differently by application if you want). Would be really nice to have separate track speed/acceleration speed as on even the most basic Wacom Graphire mouse.