Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Good Wireless Mouse

Mouse is a must have equipment tool for laptop / notebook, it is more easy to use mouse than trackpad or touchpad on the laptop to control the cursor. There are several types of mouse, wired one and wireless, ballroller or optic one. Which one is good wireless mouse ?

Wired type is not practical because every time should be connected and disconnected. Wireless type more practical and flexible where mouse and the laptop is connected through radio signal.
The components consist of USB tranceiver card and wireless mouse itself. One (AA or AAA size) battery will supplied the mouse which can be  rechargeable or non rechargeable type. Better choose the AA battery size than AAA, because its have more power capacity.
Other thing that should be consider is the size of the transceiver, better choose the short type where when it plug in to USB port only extent maximum of 0.5 cm out of the outer laptop's body. The picture below shows the transmitter attached to the laptop and the mouse itself.

Wireless mouse with attached usb tranceiver
Beside that, the size of mouse should be as big as it can be hold by your hand ergonomically, because you will used it for hours a day. Too small mouse is not convinient and will make your hand tired easily.
One of recommended wireless mouse which are comply with above requirements is Microsoft product one. With alkaline AA battery it can lasting for more than 1 month with heavy usage, about 8 hours usage a day. The price also ok, which is about 30+ dollars.