Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 - Imperial Purple

Loved this mouse and bought a new one to replace it once it got a little worn out, which took 3 years or so. Over time, the rubber (or whatever it is) along the sides will get stretched out and kind of loose just due to how the mouse is held when it's being used. If it gets too worn out and this starts to bug you, you can just take the rubber off and the mouse works fine without it. It takes a while for this to happen though- the first mouse I bought, I replaced for this reason and now have it as a backup for when I travel and don't want to bring along my nice new one.Battery life is pretty good- I use this mouse for around 4-10 hours a day on average and only have to replace the battery every 6-8 weeks. I make sure to turn it off when I'm not using my laptop though, so I'm not sure how the battery life would stand up if it was on constantly- though I can't imagine why this would be necessary as the switch is right on the bottom.My favorite thing about it is probably how easily it installs, and that you can take the receiver out and put it back in with no problems. If for some reason I need the usb that the mouse uses (which is semi frequent as one of the usb's on my laptop is broken), I can pop the mouse receiver out, use the usb and when I'm done, pop it back in and the mouse works perfectly.

I have 3 of these mice, and generally they work OK. They RF link is good for several feet from the receiver. I find the battery life is quite variable, and usually a lot less than claimed by MS. Some mice have smooth quiet buttons, others have loud squeaky acting buttons. I dislike the rubber coated side walls, as the rubber becomes loose, and it gets shiny which loses its "grippyness". One mouse got so annoying I had to peel off the rubber. The wheel likes to collect dust and pet hair, and I have to disassemble the mouse a couple times a year, as the accumulated fuzz wraps around the wheel shaft and prevents the wheel click button from functioning.Bottom line: cheap mouse, mediochre quality, marginal reliability. The only reason I use MS mice is I require the wheel button to be programmable to "double click". Non MS mice do not have this feature, regardless of what their advertising claims.

...comes in a variety of colors or even artwork. They are compact, work very very well. The mouse requires a AAA battery. The USB receiver fits into the bottom of the mouse for storage and pops out at the touch of a button. It senses when to go into lo-power mode, but there is also an on/off switch for even longer life. The battery lasts a long time in lo-power mode, longer than any other wireless I had. When the battery is low, a flashing led appears. Best buy for a wireless mouse, used should be oh say 10 bucks, a new one abit more. It's a good value.

It's what I'm using right now, what I use at my laptop, which is my dominant/daily computer.It's comfortable to use, it tracks well, it has a scroll, right and a left click buttons, the USB piece is nice and small so it doesn't hardly stick out from the side of the laptop.And it's compatible with my Mac, which not all are.Plus, it's a rare real purple (so many purple products are more plum or some other reddish purple shade or maybe lavender, and I really like a nice solid, rich Purple, which this is).The only reason I didn't give it a full five stars is that I have to recharge the battery much more often than the other Microsoft purple wireless mouse I have (a different, slightly older model) - that's not to say it's a problem, and that I'm having to recharge it all the time, but the other one, with the same functionality, lasts four times as long, so this one could, too, and I don't understand why it doesn't since it's even newer.

I paid an extra $7.00 for Imperial Purple and I received ugly black. I need it or I would send it back. The invoice even says imperial purple. The mouse is great, my second one, but the color really disappointed me.

This mouse looks like such a good deal; however, I have had to buy two of them in the last 12-18 months (I thought the first one was just a fluke). I liked this mouse at first, but after a while they both just stop working! I'm not getting sucked in a third time!

I bought this mouse because it was supposed to be Windows 7 ready. It is. You plug in the USB transmitter/receiver (tx/rx), turn on the mouse and that's it. It works on every reasonable surface I've tried. It works up to about 10-15 feet away if you have a need for that. It is a little more compact than a standard mouse, but not by much. I keep the rx/tx in one of my netbook's USB port all the time since it's so small and unobtrusive even though the mouse has a little spring-loaded receptacle for the rx/tx. If you install Microsoft's Intellimouse application, you'll be able to make the roller do different things for different programs. These puppies are going for $30 retail.Also, for those who wish to turn off your touchpad, if the touchpad driver supports it, you will have a checkbox in the pointer tab of the mouse area of control panel that will automatically turn the touchpad off if the wireless mouse tx/rx is installed in a USB port. If that's not an option, look at the top row of keys on your laptop, you may have a turn off touchpad option with Fn+(the button). Check your computer's documentation. If that still doesn't work, you may try turning the touchpad off in your computer's BIOS. You will have to press some button or combination of buttons when you start the computer to get into the BIOS. Be careful while you're in there because you can change the fundamentals about how your computer operates.