Customer Reviews

Macally USB Optical Scroll Mouse for Desktop/portable Mac

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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.

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.

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.

This mouse did not work well with my Mac Pro. Scroll wheel would stop for no reason. Mouse would not always track with the mouses movements. Replaced it within weeks

I had one of this and I bought other because this is one of the best mouse on market, I liked very much and also at good price, worth a try.

Macally USB Optical Scroll Mouse for Desktop/portable Mac
I am using it NOW! I bought these to replace one I had for years. It's very smooth and as an artist drawing on a computer that is very important.

The mouse is usable and certainly better than the one it replaced, but why the interchangable covers when the entire mouse glows red no matter what color the cover is??