Microsoft 5000 Laser Mouse

very good mouse for notebook

Strengths: bluetooth, easy pairing, laser, responsive, quiet soft-click

Weakness: loud scroll wheel, connection drops sometimes, no forward button

This mouse has a quality feel and seems to be well made. The bluetooth pairing with notebook is seamless. The battery indicator and power switch are nice features. The power assumption seems very low: the original pair of batteries still have juice after nearly three month. I also have a Logitech VX Nano, which has a better scroll wheel feel and lower profile. But I like 5000's soft click much,...

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Personality over beauty kind of mouse

Strengths: Bluetooth nice compromise between battery saving and actual usage (doesn't sleep aggressively); button material repels dirt; default works nice with Mac OS x; OFF button

Weakness: ugly; software essential for button mapping; scroll wheel from 1996.

Choosing a bluetooth mouse for a MAC is harder than it seems. On one hand, you have a great design like Apple's mighty mouse except the parts are junk (the scroll wheel gets gunk within 1 month). On the other side of the gamut, you get a logitech V2xx/V4xx series where the bluetooth battery savings power is so aggressive, you get intermittent lag when it sleep and reconnects. Sighing at both...

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Nice little mouse

Strengths: Ergonomics, back button, tactile mouse wheel, quality of construction, laser optics

Weakness: Incompatible with Dell 355 bluetooth module drivers (WIDCOMM)

I bought this mouse for a Dell Vostro 1500. Out of the package, it is a good quality mouse with good ergonomics. The first problem was the WIDCOMM bluetooth stack on my Vostro 1500 laptop running Windows XP. I have switched back to original Microsoft bluetooth stack and the mouse connected successfully. I removed one star because of this incompatibility of the mouse with WIDCOMM bluetooth driver....

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Could be better

Strengths: Bluetooth connectivity - no dongle required. Connects easily to Macbook.

Weakness: Irregular tracking. Wheel is loud. Wheel jams when you try to scroll quickly. Heavy (requires 2 batteries).

I had high hopes for this mouse, but found that it still has a lot of room for improvement. The mouse connected easily with my MacBook through Bluetooth, which is great, since there are no USB dongles needed. Unfortunately, the mouse has a number of shortcomings. The wheel is not very comfortable - it clicks loudly in one direction. When I try to scroll down rapidly, it jams against the edge of...

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Great... Unless You Want to Reassign Buttons

Strengths: Basically works as advertised; smooth operation and high-quality "look and feel"; compact for superior portability.

Weakness: Lack of driver support limits customizability; not the most comfortable mouse I've used.

This mouse works as advertised on a ThinkPad notebook running Windows XP. Bluetooth pairing was painless, and I'm pleased with the smooth functioning of the mouse, not to mention the elimination of the transceiver unit--one more black box I'd have to schlep around. Size and shape are matters of personal preference, and I would agree with those who suggest trading off some comfort is an acceptable...

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Preferred over the BT500 mouse

Strengths: Quiet, battery life, back button, battery indicator is a nice feature

Weakness: scroll wheel a little stiff

I previously owned a Bluetake BT500 mouse (same as the RadTech BT500), until the scroll wheel stopped working. After shopping around online, I settled on the MS Notebook Mouse 5000, and so far I am quite pleased. Size: I travel a lot and like to travel light, so size matters for me. The 5000 is slightly bigger than the BT500 was, but still much smaller than a normal mouse. I find that the 5000's...

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Microsoft Notebook Bluetooth Laser Mouse 5000

Strengths: No USB dongles required for wireless connection to the laptop.

Weakness: A tad on the small side.

The mouse works like a champ. Easy to use, with an on / off button. It even comes with it's own case for storage. Very comfortable too. Takes two AAA batteries, which it comes with.

Should have known Microsoft stuff is absolute crap.

Strengths: It's a good mouse

Weakness: Only works with Microsoft Bluetooth Stack

The mouse worked great when I ran the MS Bluetooth stack, but unfortunately the MS makes my Lenovo T60p bluescreen when using the Wireless switch. Installing the WIDCOMM stack solves this, but now my mouse won't work.

Bad Idea...

Strengths: Design, size/portability

Weakness: No drivers, incompatibilities, microsoft doesnt list it as a product of theres

Wont work on my Vista Business laptop. Tried everything, for hours. Microsoft will charge me 50$ to contact them on it because as far as their support and webpage show...its not even a listed product of theres.

great if was consistent

Strengths: light, simple and ergonomic. Great mouse

Weakness: Worked for one week and not anymore after. I put different sets of brand new batteries and still did not work. Mouse kept indicating that battery was low even after brand new batteries were loaded.

Would of loved to kept this mouse because of the no USB receiver required but I guess it was too good to be true because the mouse only lasted so long and I went to best buy and get my money back still looking for a replacement.