Thursday, June 07, 2007

Warning: All Wireless Mouse are -uh- bad

If you're thinking about buying a wireless mouse, don't. Very likely the LED will burn out within 1 year of your purchase and you'll have to go out and shop for another one. There is a very -uh- bad design flaw in wireless/bluetooth mouse and it is because of the fact that wireless/bluetooth mouse remain "on" until an internal timer tells it to turn "off". If you kept moving the mouse after you turned your computer off, the mouse LED will keep on going. So if you moved your mouse, it automatically turns on, even if your PC is still off.

My suggestion to these wireless/bluetooth mouse designing/producing companies would be to make a wireless/bluetooth handshake that would turn off the mouse if the handshake is not there.

Wireless and bluetooth mouse are expensive. Don't get one. It's not worth it unless you really need your mouse to be wireless. Even then, take off the batteries when you're not using them to save or increase the LED's lifespan.

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