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HP USB Mini Mouse | 
 enlarge | Brand: Micro Innovations
Category: CE
List Price: $47.68
Buy New: $12.99
You Save: $34.69 (73%)
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 58247
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 3 x 7
MPN: PM100A
Model: PM100A
UPC: 829160631400
EAN: 0829160631400
ASIN: B0009JR56Y
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: National computer retail store open box item, comes with original packing. Test and functional. fast shipping in 1 business day.
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Product Description
Information technology professionals rely on HP quality to ensure maximum productivity. As the power of applications, processors, memory adapters and storage devices increase, high-end computer users are seeking ways to optimize their system performance. HP provides leading solutions, adding new levels of performance, availability, flexibility, and management.
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 It works fine to me! January 18, 2007
Luis Carvajal (Caracas, Venezuela)
I read many reviews about this item (after buying it) and people said they weren't satisfied about the mouse's performance, and this made me feel worried, but when I received it my fears went away. Ok, maybe it's not the best mini-mouse ever, but it works pretty well in my Pavilion dv9060us.
 Mini Mouse is Mini Featured ... October 1, 2005
J. Donie (Cincinnati, OH USA)
This mouse works OK ... it feels great in my hand, the buttons click well and it plugs in and works just fine even when the PC is already on, just like you'd hope. But it's got some really disappointing aspects. I'm using it on an HP 4150 Notebook PC. Here are the problems I've had.
#1 - No Rate of Movement Adjustment
#2 - Srolling Finger Wheel Doesn't Apply Where You'd Guess
#3 - Under-Engineered Chord
#1 - No Rate of Movement Adjustment
Every mouse I've ever owned has allowed you to adjust the "Rate of Movement" of the mouse. By this, I mean that you have the ability to change how far the cursor moves on the screen for every inch of movement you make with the mouse. Well, I searched hi and lo for this adjustment in the Mouse Properties window (WinXP) and found nothing for rate of movement.
I contacted HP support and was told that this adjustment is made (get this) by changing the "Touch Sensitivity" of the Laptop's built in touch pad COMBINED WITH a change to the "Scroll Rate" (how fast the vertical scroll feature works when you use the touch pad scroller or the mouse's finger scrolling wheel). Now HOW on earth they expect changes to "Touch Sensitivity" and "Scroll Rate" on the TOUCH PAD to impact the "Rate of Movement" on the optical hand mouse, I have no idea. But ... I tried it. And what happend?
As you might expect, the "Touch Sensitivity" of the touch pad did change. As I'd been told to move the "Sensitivity" to high, the touch pad got VERY sensitive. Even brushing my hand lightly over it sent the cursor moving ... but at the exact same Rate of Movement as before. And changing the "Scroll Rate" of the touch pad and mouse changed the speed with which the scroll feature worked on the touch pad and the mouse. That means that when I used the touch pad's built in scroller or the mouse's finger wheel, the scroll feature on screen moved much more quickly.
BUT ... what happened when I measured how far the cursor moved for every inch I moved the mouse on my desk? NOTHING. It was, as you might have guessed, exactly the same.
I brought this to the attention of the HP Tech, who told me that I must have corrupted divice drivers.
The simple truth here seems to be that, at least when used on an HP 4150 Notebook with a built in touch pad, there is no "Rate of Movement" adjustment made available to us. There is no logic to the notion that Making adjustments to A and B should magically change how C works. Defective drivers would make the mouse behave in ways you don't expect it to. This mouse behaves precisely the way the Mouse Properties window suggests it should. When you adjust the Touch Senstivity (TS)of the touchpad ... the touch pad gets more sensitive ... just like you'd guess. When you adjust the Scroll Rate (SR) of the touch pad and mouse ... the scroll rate changes. I'm not at all surprised to find that the Rate of Movement doesn't change when you adjust the TS and SR ... why would it? Does your TV get louder when you adjust the brightness and contrast?
The bottom line here is that, at least when used on an HP 4150 with a built in touch pad mouse, we don't get the chance to adjust the Rate of Movement. So, if you like a mouse that requires you to move your hand back and forth 3 times to cross the screen, you'll probably be OK with this mouse, as that's what is required as the mouse comes configured. If you prefer a mouse that moves the cursor all the way across the screen with one movement ... this one will probably drive you nuts.
#2 - Srolling Finger Wheel Doesn't Apply Where You'd Guess
I've been using a Microsoft Mouse with a scroll finger wheel for AGES. I'm used to how it works. I know that when I use the wheel in certain places in my programs, certain things will move. Well, with the HP mouse, some of those things I'm used to moving with the mouse wheel ... don't move any more. If you made a list of all the programs you use and what moves in each one when you use the mouse wheel ... you'd find that the list gets smaller with the HP Mini Mouse. Things that used to move when you used the MS Mouse Scroll Wheel don't move any more. it's as if the device driver simply doesn't access all the same features. THIS might be improved by downloading new drivers ... but I have yet to find someone at HP who can give me an answer about this that makes any sense. The drivers they told me to download were for the 4150's built in touch pad and they were designed to fix problems with the amount of area on the touch pad that responds to different kinds of input ... not the way the scroll wheel works on a USB Optical Mini Mouse. I'm not going to delete my old drivers and replace them until I get an answer that makes more sense. Odds are, I'll just buy a different mouse.
#3 - Under-Engineered Chord
While the mouse works well in most respects and does most of the things you'd expect a mouse to do (with the exceptions noted above) I have to say that I really wasn't happy with the design of the chord on this mouse. I use it on my notebook PC, which means I'm plugging it in and unplugging it and coiling it up all the time. And the chord on this mouse feels so fragile (very thin, not very springy ... delicate even) that I'm afraid I'm going to break it in no time, even though I'm very careful with it. I'm VERY careful about how I coil and uncoil it and even with those precautions it's very prone to getting kinks in it.
Compare this, for instance, to the chord used on the earphones that came with the HP 4150. The wire is a very similar diameter, but it feels MUCH more resistant to damage. It's got a springiness to it that resists permanent bends and kinks that the Mini Mouse chord doesn't have.
BOTTOM LINE
This mouse works OK ... but of all the mice I've used, it's amongh my least favorite and I'll probably replace it when I get the chance. I'm still not sure if the features issue is related to the mouse itself or the way this mouse interacts with this notebook PC ... and since I can't find any downloadable divice drivers for the Mini Mouse, until I can find someone at HP who can speak to the problem more logically, I'm kind of stuck using what I've got.
RECOMMENDATION
Keep looking for a better mouse ...
 Disappointed... August 13, 2005
Y. Naoi (Cupertino, CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I found this mouse in a store for the first time, I thought it seemed to fit my hand without sampling. I decided to purchase amazon.com and got it, however, the quality was cheaper than the looks in the package. The worst thing is that it is hard to move a mouse pointer. The amount of the moving of the pointer is very short per one movement even though I changed to max to the movement of the pointer in control panel.
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