Wireless Mouse 4 Desktop?

Gratis

Buy a Bluetooth wireless mouse.

If your PC has Bluetooth natively, using a Bluetooth wireless mouse will save you having to surrender one of its USB ports permanently to mouse use.

If your PC does not have Bluetooth natively, using a USB Bluetooth adaptor will so enable it and although you’ll still be losing a USB port permanently you can use the Bluetooth facility for many other purposes as well (like beaming photographs into it wirelessly from your mobile ‘phone, for example) without further loss of USB facility. It’s a much more versatile solution.

Consider also using rechargeable batteries.

The best option for a desktop computer is a Bluetooth wireless mouse that can sit overnight on an induction pad to recharge its batteries. You never get caught out by the mouse running out of juice when you’re in the middle of doing something.

joe2cool

Hi my desktop doesn't have bluetooth but as plenty of USB ports.
Could you recommend a rechargeble mouse. what do you think of http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Performance-Mouse-Tracks-Glass/dp/B002L3TSKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333973379&sr=8-1

Is Darkfield Laser Tracking as good as 'bluetrack' or better because it performs on glass too?


Thx

victor2

joe2cool wrote: »

Hi my desktop doesn't have bluetooth but as plenty of USB ports.
Could you recommend a rechargeble mouse.

Thx

Remember that rechargeable batteries tend to give a slightly lower voltage than regular alkaline ones. You might find a very short battery life if using rechargeables.
Never tried them in my mouse, just use Duracell alkaline. Not worth the cost of rechargeables (you'd need twice as many as the mouse takes) and a charger, given that I won't use more than 8 (2 at a time) batteries a year, probably less. I just buy packs of batteries with a long shelf life when I see them on offer. The Logitech mouse and driver give plenty of notice (like days) when the batteries are getting low and I've never had a problem.
Hadn't considered induction charging though.

Gratis

joe2cool wrote: »

Hi my desktop doesn't have bluetooth but as plenty of USB ports.
Could you recommend a rechargeble mouse. what do you think of http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Performance-Mouse-Tracks-Glass/dp/B002L3TSKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333973379&sr=8-1

Is Darkfield Laser Tracking as good as 'bluetrack' or better because it performs on glass too?

Thx

We use these mice for all our computers except our desktop (kitchen tablebeneath, in practice ) PC.

They’re fairly power hungry because of all their functions (with MagicPreferences) so we put Energiser Lithium batteries in those used with laptops.

I use one of these induction pad converters in the mouse for my desktop Mac (mini). It works well and it’s very handy.

With the PC, we use an old Hewlett-Packard mouse (Bluetooth) that was formerly linked to an Apple G4 Powerbook.

Can’t help you in regard to Logitech mice, I’m afraid; I’ve never had one – but reputedly they are good.

Mice are a very personal thing: everyone has differently sized and proportioned hands and, therefore, different preferences. What suits one person ideally, somebody else may not be comfortable with at all. One of the few good things that can be said about PC World is that it offers you the chance to try out lots of different mice in your hand and see which one is most comfortable for you.

(An Apple Magic Mouse, self-evidently, comes in only one size and shape but its multi-functionality can be an overriding factor in its favour and the very nature of how it works requires a different ergonomic grip to a conventional mouse.)

:idea: Incidentally, even if you’re right-handed it makes more sense to use a mouse with your left hand because all the unduplicated power-keys (return, backspace, delete-forward, up, down, sideways, etc.) are on the right-hand side of the keyboard. If you use your mouse with your right hand, you either have to take it off the mouse completely whenever you want to access them or stretch all the way across the keyboard with your left hand to reach them.

(So, think carefully if you are going to buy a mouse that is specifically contoured for the right hand or for the left hand.)

joe2cool

Thx very useful...........

Dave_C_2

s_b wrote: »

once you use a wireless keyboard you wont like a wired one again

Huh? For me the thing about a keyboard is the "feel" of the keys and the typing action. After driving the Lexmark equivalent of an an IBM model M keyboard (died in a cofee-related accident) and a Dell Quietkey any modern keyboard is just average.

How are wireless keyboards "better" ?

Looks like the shift and apostrophe keys are broken on yours

Dave

Gratis

Dave_C wrote: »

Huh? For me the thing about a keyboard is the "feel" of the keys and the typing action. After driving the Lexmark equivalent of an an IBM model M keyboard (died in a cofee-related accident) and a Dell Quietkey any modern keyboard is just average.

How are wireless keyboards "better" ?

Looks like the shift and apostrophe keys are broken on yours

Dave

Eh? :huh:

What on earth has whether or not it’s wireless got to do with “the feel of the keys”?

Wireless is just a different way to a wire for sending the signal to the computer after you’ve pressed the key.

Certainly, Apple keyboards, wired or wireless, are identical in feel.

s_b

Dave_C wrote: »

Huh? For me the thing about a keyboard is the "feel" of the keys and the typing action. After driving the Lexmark equivalent of an an IBM model M keyboard (died in a cofee-related accident) and a Dell Quietkey any modern keyboard is just average.

How are wireless keyboards "better" ?

Looks like the shift and apostrophe keys are broken on yours

Dave

er no wires
theres some thick people about at the moment,where did i mention the feel of the keys or the howling of the wolf as he stood on the moon and looking at the quick brown fox?

DevCoder

Ive recently tried the microsoft arc touch mouse
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/arc-touch-tutorial/
which is nice (although expensive at £50-60) and a bit light in the hand
and also the logitech k520 keyboard + m310 mouse combination
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003ZWL9G4/ref=oh_o06_s00_i00_details

at £40, which is probably the best keyboard tactile feel Ive had in a long time. Great keyboard and mouse for me.

Gratis

s_b wrote: »

once you use a wireless keyboard you wont like a wired one again

That's not necessarily true.

I often use wireless keyboards with a laptop – to enable (with a stand) the screen to be displayed at a comfortable height and distance – but I've gone back to using a wired keyboard with desktops in a fixed location.

Always prefer a wireless mouse though – because you have to keep moving a mouse about and a cable on one becomes a major nuisance.