MS Intellimouse Explorer

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old.Whez

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Its the silver and gray Mouse with a camera lens sensor (no ball) from Microsoft.

I got my hands on this new mouse for 2 weeks now and have been testing it out on quake. I decided to write a review about it.
http://www.ukctf.com/whez

Anyone else using this mouse? Be great to hear you're views, having payed 50 quid for it
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xane

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Yeah, I got the £41 one from Dabs
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Totally agree with your point about lifting & repositioning the mouse, I found it no problem at all, needs to be about 1cm above the pad. The mouse is actually lighter so lifting is not really a problem, I actually suspect the "big" design is to help with lifting it during gameplay.

I have only noticed one weird thing playing Quake2, sometimes the thing goes haywire and I end up looking straight up and spinning round and round, then it "calms down". Only lasts a couple of seconds at most but enough to cause a problem during a match. I haven't figured out what causes it as its only happened a few times.

The real benefit will come in about two months time when I don't have to clean the damn thing !

Other than that - excellent, and a nice review too.

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old.Mikey

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The new mouse well what can I say brilliant!

Mikey out!!

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old.canfrag

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the mouse going haywire thing is because you are scanning it across the mousepad too fast. Do it in Windows and you will see the same effect. It's a huge damn flaw with the thing.
 
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old.Fish

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Does this mean that anything I type here will get stuck on the end of the review?
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old.[GA] Shovel

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One fault in your review.
You claimed that the design had a similar effect to that of an iMac...

You then went on to suggest that the mouse was quite good.
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A small contracdiction?

anyhow, I intend to get of these here mice, mainly cause of the red light, but also cause the extra buttons will drive my Dad nuts....

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old.Pure Science

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Ive just ordered one of these babies aswell so it better be good or we will send the boyz round Whez
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old.Riz

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Depends on your playing style, I do a lot of 180 flics, which I didn't realise until I tried one of these mice. I must flic too fast because the mouse cannot cope at all, it's like someone said earlier it seems to loose track and plays catch-up. Doing a quick 180 flic-fire-180 flic, when carrying the flag to take out those following you is impossible to do with this mouse, and for that reason alone I took it back - I now have a Logitech USB wheel-mouse which is the dbs IMHO...
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ps. sensitivty on old Intellimouse and ps/2rate at 200MHz was 8.

[This message has been edited by Riz (edited 19 November 1999).]
 
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old.Iron Pants

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I got an IntelliEye and found it works fine.

Turn the mouse sensetivity up in games to reduce the mouse movement needed for a 180 flick and you should not get suffer from the bug.

This aside not cleaning the mouse wheels twice a day is GREAT.

The technology has been around for years so why has no one done this yet.

Is Billy G just a torrent of good ideas??
 
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old.Mikey

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I've had no probs with the bug when playing games. I too put the sensitivity up! GREAT MOUSE!


Mikey out!!

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Music is the answer!!
Paul Oakenfold is the No 1 DJ!

Can't beat the UK club scene!!
Best in the world!!

It's all about soul.
See ya on the dance floor!
 
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