1 week trial...
Written: Jun 09 '03
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Pros: Excellent in hand textures.
Cons: Sticky to mouse pads including Everglide.
The Bottom Line: Don't bother since the bottom is ever so slightly sticky. If they ever replace the soft runners with the harder runners I would highly recommend.
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| wondere's Full Review: Ovation Optical Navigator Mouse 4 Btn (MPN-19K200... |
The wheel is made out of soft rubber and clings to your finger, it is very comfortable. The thumb side is velvety plastic it is very pleasant to touch. It seems like such a high quality mouse that it would be easy to over look the one big fault.
The big problem is the runners on the bottom are not very hard so even on an Everglide mouse pad the mouse has the slightest hint of sticking. That makes it useless for FPS and CAD. Fine single or few pixel control is difficult at best. To test this take your current mouse push down hard and move it. If it sticks at all you should test some other mice. Logitech mouseman doesn't experience this stickiness on an Everglide mouse pad or straight on the desktop. The IBM did.
This particular mouse was not perfectly flat. It would wobble ever so slightly when I clicked the left mouse button. It was very slight and I doubt most people would notice it. So that made it less accurate. After running it directly on the desktop for several hours it became flatter but it was still not perfect. This flaw would have disappeared since it just needed some mileage to wear out that high point. I probably got a mouse that wasn't exactly to specification since I got it on ebay so cheap. Also the IBM Optical Navigator is kind of old now so they could just be in huge supply.
The drivers seem really messed up but they are not. They actually make more sense if you plug it into the PS2 port but the USB drivers did work for me under windows XP. It claimed it was some sort of USB mouse and wasn't specific but I could open the mouse panel and configure the buttons so it was working in XP with USB.
You may want to just plug it into the PS2 port and let windows install the driver since the wheel won't work in some games if you don't.
Interestingly enough if you do install the IBM drivers the wheel works in Visual Basic which is a problem for most mice.
I plan to get some other mice and take the harder plastic runners off them and reattach them to the IBM mouse to solve the sticky problem. If the runners were hard this would have been the best mouse I have ever owned.
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 3.50 ebay
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