The buttons are well-placed so it feels natural to use. The design allows it to be used in either the left- or right-hand, which as left-hander is very welcome indeed. This mouse doesn’t suffer from that problem and sits neatly into the hand. The problem with some notebook mice is that they are too small – great for saving space in the bag, but too small when you settle down to do some real work once at your destination.

We got into the habit of calling it 'the Mac thing', because you click the wheel and your open windows break out in miniature on your screen so you can pick a new window, which is useful when you have too much open to navigate along the toolbar.

Secondly, click the wheel and you’ll enable Flip 3D.įlip 3D plays to Vista’s strengths, but as most people still use XP, it is a useful tool. It actually hides a collection of features: firstly it is four-way scrolling, so on a document you get the option of left and right scrolling as well as the standard up and down, which it pretty useful. The scroll wheel has a good smooth action, better than previous clicking wheels. This could save you having to zoom in a document or allow you to look at, ahem, more interesting parts of an image, for example. The magnifier is interesting, although we haven’t found a regular use for it yet: simply click the button and an adjustable magnification box opens. You also get additional left and right buttons, the left defaults as a back button when browsing, whilst the right is the magnifier. The mouse itself brings plenty of buttons to the party, not just the scroll wheel and left and right buttons. The dongle slots neatly into the base of the mouse when not in use, but doesn’t sit flush, which is a minor design niggle. Starting with the wireless aspect, it is a standard 2.4GHz wireless setup, with a USB dongle. We look at their Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 7000. (Pocket-lint) - Sometimes it is too easy to overlook Microsoft as an peripheral supplier.

Microsoft natural laser mouse 7000