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Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 | 
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| Brand: Microsoft
Category: CE
Buy New: £31.98
New (15) from £31.98
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 3554
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
MPN: 9DR-00002
Model: 9DR-00002
UPC: 882224139076
EAN: 0882224139076
ASIN: B000GSR1QM
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | General: Device Type - Mouse / Wireless Receiver - USB wireless receiver / Form Factor - External / Colour - Grey, anthracite / Localisation - EMEA | | • | Input Device: Connectivity Technology - Wireless / Interface - Bluetooth / Max Operating Distance - Up to 10 m / Movement Detection Technology - Laser / Buttons Qty - 5 / Movement Resolution - 1000 dpi / Features - Programmable buttons, zoom wheel, laser pointer, scrolling 4-way button, Tilt Wheel technology, High Definition Laser Technology | | • | Expansion / Connectivity: Interfaces - 1 x USB - 4-PIN USB Type A | | • | Software / System Requirements: OS Required - Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows Vista | | • | Manufacturer Warranty: Service & Support - 5 years' warranty / Service & Support Details - Limited warranty - 5 years |
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Product Description
Do more and carry less with the first ever Notebook Mouse with integrated slide presenter, laser pointer, and media remote control. It's an all-in-one super tool for the office, road, and home?the only input device you need. Presentation Controls •Smoothly navigate through Microsoft Office PowerPoint and other presentations from up to 30 feet away from your PC. Media Remote •Use for multimedia presentations and control digital entertainment from the comfort of your living room sofa. Battery Life Indicator •You won't get caught with a dead battery?the Battery Status LED Indicator glows red when the battery is running low. 2.4 GHz Bluetooth with First Connect Technology •Connect wirelessly right out of the box with 2.4 GHz Bluetooth . High Definition Laser Technology •Microsoft High Definition Laser Mouse products are more precise, more responsive, and deliver smoother tracking. Laser Pointer •Point out essential information during presentations with the laser pointer. Innovative Industrial Design •The sleek and stylish design looks great on any desktop in your home or office. Digital Ink •Give your presentations more impact by highlighting vital information on screen. On/Off Switch •Turn your 3-in-1 device off to extend battery life even longer. Magnifier •Point and click to enlarge and edit detail using the Magnifier*. 4-Way Scrolling •Scroll four ways for greater efficiency and comfort with Tilt Wheel Technology. Carrying Case •Protect your mouse while you?re on the go. Instant Viewer •Too many open items on your desktop? Click the scroll wheel button to instantly display your open windows, then point and click to select. Customizable Buttons •Get quick access to the media, programs, and files you use most often with customizable buttons. Laptop/Notebook Mobile •Compact and comfortable, our handy notebook and laptop products are des
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Alright June 14, 2008
Ben Guest (England)
Ok, i didn't buy it from amazon but i thought i would right a review anyway.
The mouse is small and fits in the hand well. you can use it with the bluetooth USB receiver it comes with or if you have a laptop with bluetooth you can use that. Thats the reason I got it - because i didnt have to have any more wires. I have found no use for the media control buttons underneath the mouse though, or the laser pointer. Yes it is a "presenter" mouse so if you need it for that then those buttons may be useful. The mouse performs...alright, but to be honest for something thats rated at 1000 or 1600 dpi, it sure doesn't feel like it - its more optical mouse precision and can be jumpy at times. If you leave it in the same place for a while and start to move it again it lags alot to start with but that might be because it tuns itself off to save power (I Think)
The main reason i have brought the mouse down for is the wheel. it doesnt click when you roll it like most mouse wheels do and is therefore very annoying and imprecise. I havnt been able to get the horizintal scrolling to work on it, and pressing the wheel button down is somewhat difficult, especially when you are tying not to make the wheel roll too much because it doesn't click.
Overall, it is alot of money for some extra buttons most people wont have a use for and the wheel sucks. I would look elsewhere for bluetooth laser mouses and by no means should you buy this for gaming.
If you want something that is small and you can transport easily with your bluetooth enabled laptop, then get it, but as i said, look elsewhere first.
 Simply perfect March 11, 2008
G. B. P. Madden (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What is it?
A portable mouse designed for regular use which connects via bluetooth and is powered by two AAA batteries. It has a vertical/horizontal mousewheel and two extra buttons, plus a fifth placed behind the mousewheel which converts it into a remote control. Press this and turn it over and you will find forwards and back buttons, volume updown, pause/play and laser pointer. The buttons work with powerpoint and most media players.
Advantages:
VERY accurate (even accurate on rough surfaces - including carpets!)
Very ergonomic - small, yet big enough to use as your main mouse
Bluetooth (plus free dongle) has a great range and can save a precious USB port.
Off button (unlike my old bluetooth mouse) will save the battery, and means it doesn't go into standby (and take a while to wake up, as my old one did)
Disadvantages:
Price, though personally I think it's worth the money
Scroll wheel button is sometimes a bit hard to depress
On vista, I can't get any of the extra buttons to open up programs, which I find a bit irritating.
Conclusion:
A Very good mouse. Worth the money if you have it, and extremely useful. After a while you'll start refusing to use other mice.
Limited range February 1, 2008
G. Hudson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a bluetooth mouse and the specification sheet on the Microsoft website says typical range is 9.14 metres. However, be warned that if you do not have direct line of sight between mouse and dongle, with no objects in between, you won't get anything near this range. It only just makes it across my living room, which it barely 4 m. Placing a TV remote (infra-red) anywhere nearby also tends to kill it.
The buttons on the mouse do not click very distinctly - but you might not find this much of a problem.
Note that the volume buttons (which are very useful for home cinema viewing etc) only work if you switch the mouse to presenter mode, which disables the cursor movement.
The Microsoft driver comes with a magnifier utility, activated by a click of one of the extra buttons on the mouse. This magnifies a portion of the screen (user-definable in size) around the mouse cursor, and follows the cursor. Very useful when viewing a projector image on the other side of the room.
Great mouse December 28, 2007
Mr. J. R. Chapman
I've been looking for a while for a decent laptop mouse and finally found it in the MS 8000. I was a little concerned that it might not work with my Bluetooth enabled laptops since the box states 'For best results ... use the included Microsoft mini Bluetooth transceiver' and the last thing I wanted was an extra gadget sticking out of my laptop. In practice however I had no trouble installing it on a Sony Vio, a HP Pavilion or a Dell Inspiron. (I bought another two)
Unlike previous laptop mice I've had there's:
No lead
No fancy and totally useless LEDs
It does not use a red LED sensor - or any other visable light sensor for that matter.
Good features are:
Good battery life - it uses 2 standard AAA cells (provided) and can use rechargables.
It also acts as a remote for doing presentations
Great accuracy
5 buttons - all configurable
Lasr pointer built in (Great cat toy)
Scroll wheel has horizontal action also
Smooth action of scroll wheel
Has survived being dropped many times (Seems there is a use for those cables)
On/off switch (but you don't really need it since it switched off automatically if you leave it long enough)
Poor features (I had to look hard for these) are:
The batteries make it a little heavy
The position of the extra buttons are a little hard to get used to (but at least you don't press them by accident)
Scroll wheel des not have the notch effect (I hated that on other mice at first but got used to it).
Mostly well thought out wireless mouse November 17, 2007
Gordon Mcvey (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this mouse together with a Macbook Pro because I just can't abide those touch sensitive things that are pretty much universal on laptops these days, I don't like how MacOS insists that 1 button is all you need on a mouse and because the laptop had bluetooth support, but only 2 USB ports, meaning that I didn't want to waste one of them on a wired mouse and thought the bluetooth approach would be more elegant.
And of course I also got taken in by all the toys and the flash packaging. I swear, if Q ever handed James Bond a computer accessory, it would be this mouse. Except on his version the laser pointer could slice through plate steel and the battery compartment would conceal miniature homing missiles or something.
As well as being a mouse, this device is also a remote control for multimedia players, Powerpoint presentations (hence the laser pointer), etc. The idea is that on the underside there is a set of buttons. When you want to use them you press a button behind the mousewheel to deactivate the mouse functionality, flip the mouse over, and use the buttons on the underside to control the volume and progression of your presentation, with the laser pointer to highlight points on the screen. This works pretty well, but can catch you out when you're not aware of it. If you press the button the mouse toggles off and if you don't know that you might think the mouse is broken or the batteries are flat.
There are some things that do detract somewhat from the mouse though, and the first and worst by far is the mouse wheel. Microsoft seem to think that as well as scrolling up and down, you should also be able to use the wheel to scroll from side to side. To achieve this the mouse designers have mounted the wheel in a cradle that lets it tilt sideways. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time but in practice it really isn't, especially if you use the middle button functionality that most wheelmice provide by clicking the wheel as if it was a button. The wheel tilting makes this very difficult and more often or not the mouse will fail to register the middle click. This is exasperated by the fact that Microsoft also seemed to think that users don't like the discrete notch effect that mouse wheels up to now have had. I personally DO like said notching, and to me a wheel without the notching has no feel to it. This really makes the mouse a poor choice for gaming because in FPS games I like to use the wheel to select a weapon and middle click to reload. I've found myself trying to reload and switching to the wrong weapon instead more often than I would like with the wheel on the Wireless Presenter.
The plastic carry case that Microsoft supply the mouse with is, in theory a great idea, but the actual execution is sloppy. The latch really is not secure and can pop open at any moment, and why on Earth did Microsoft supply a wrist strap? Surely a belt clip would have been far more useful.
Additionally there is no rechargeable batteries or charging cradle supplied with this mouse, a curious oversight given you get such gear with the equivalent desktop mouse. You can buy your own rechargeables and a wall charger of course, but for a mouse this pricey you'd expect it to come with a set of batteries you can charge back up, and that could be charged from a USB source.
Speaking of batteries, the charge indicator lamp is on the underside of the mouse, where you will probably never notice when it starts blinking red to let you know that the batteries are running out. Again, the desktop version of this mouse mounts the charge lamp on the upper side. Why not here? It wouldn't have been hard to illuminate around the edges of one of the buttons or the wheel.
On the whole though, this is a good quality mouse that feels like it will hold up to the kind of abuse a mouse that you're going to carry everywhere might be expected to encounter, and NiMH rechargeable AAA batteries aren't really all that expensive these days.
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