Masterful Mousing : 6 Excellent Laptop Mice Review You’re heard of the better mousetrap — here are some mice that do their job better than the average rodent. If you’re still using a traditional computer (as opposed to a tablet), you’re probably also still using a traditional mouse.

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You’re heard of the better mousetrap — here are
some mice that do their job better than the average
rodent.
If you’re still using a traditional computer (as op-
posed to a tablet), you’re probably also still using
a traditional mouse. While laptops all come with
touchpads to help us move our cursors around the
screen, there’s no denying that many users are more
comfortable pushing a mouse around a desktop.
However, sometimes there isn’t a desktop — and
sometimes you need a mouse that is more portable
or more powerful than the $20 piece of plastic that
you picked up on sale.
To help deal with such issues, we’ve found six mice
that break the design mold that most of today’s mice
are built from. They do have some things in common
— they are all laser mice and they all use wireless
Bluetooth to connect with the computer. Otherwise, Cyborg R.A.T. 9 Gaming Mouse
these cursor-control devices don’t have a whole lot
in common — except possibly the ability to make You think a mouse is a simple device? You’ve got
computing more efficient. another thought coming. The Cyborg R.A.T. 9 Ga-
ming Mouse is one of the most customizable mice
around — this is the mouse for gamers who are real-
ly, really serious about their pursuits. It offers a wide
variety of tweaks, including interchangeable palm
rests and pinkie grips; two batteries (one to power
the mouse, the other to recharge in the wireless
receiver/recharge dock); five 6-gram weights that
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you can subtract or add in order to get a perfectly
weighted mouse (the knob that you unscrew to get
at the weights doubles as a screwdriver to help you
adjust other parts of the mouse); five programmable
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goes up to an impressive 5600 dpi) — and that’s just Magic Mouse
for starters. This $150 device is the Maserati of mice.
Logitech Couch Mouse M515
Apple’s Magic Mouse
Despite recent rumorsthat it was going to be phased
out in favor of Apple’s Magic Trackpad, the Magic
Mouse is still available for those Mac fans who prefer
the feel of a mouse to that of a trackpad. The Magic
Mouse offers a multitouch surface that lets you click
and swipe with one or two fingers, depending on
what you want to do. You can also use it like a tradi-
tional mouse on any surface — like the other mice
Logitech Couch Mouse M515 in this roundup, it’s a laser mouse and therefore
doesn’t require a mouse pad to be effective. And it
Most of the mice in this roundup are styled diffe- has the smooth white styling that has become the
rently than the traditional mouse that we — or, at signature of Apple products.
least, our computers — have grown up with. The
Logitech Couch Mouse, though, is a nice combination
of the old and the new — it resembles the larger
old-fashioned mice that fit nicely in the hand, yet it
offers a variety of interesting features. These include
hand detection — so that the mouse is only active
when it is gripped — good control no matter what
surface you’re moving it on and a scroll wheel that
also tilts from right to left to let you move backwards
and forwards through Web pages. Unlike most of
the other mice in this roundup, the Logitech Couch
Mouse uses traditional AA batteries, so you don’t
have to worry about recharging it (only replacing
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the batteries), and the battery compartment also has
a handy little space for the tiny Bluetooth receiver.
And it’s less expensive than any of the others here
— in fact, at $50, it’s a bargain.
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Swiftpoint Mouse Touch Mouse Artist Edition
Microsoft’s Touch Mouse
Artist Edition
Unlike Apple, Micro-
soft isn’t known for hard-
ware design, but nobody
can say it doesn’t occasio-
nally try. The Touch Mouse
Artist Edition is the new
version of Microsoft’s Blue-
tooth Touch Mouse, which
has been out for a couple of
years. The Touch Mouse offers multitouch capabili-
ties for PCs running Windows 7 – for example, you
swipe with one finger to move within a window,
Swiftpoint Mouse swipe with two fingers to maximize or minimize a
window, and use three fingers to show open win-
The Swiftpoint is one of the strangest — and smal- dows or reveal the desktop. The Artist Edition is
lest — mice covered here, but it’s also one of the etched with a design by New York artist Deanne
most useful. It was designed specifically to work Cheuk, and while it may not have the clean lines
with laptops; the Bluetooth transmitter that sits in of an Apple Magic Mouse, the intricate gray-over-
one of your USB ports also acts as a power station white pattern is certainly intriguing.
— the mouse clicks into it when you’re not using
it. The design allows you to hold it with the fingers Whirl Ergonomic Pivoting Laser Mouse
of your right hand (unfortunately, lefties aren’t ac-
commodated here); the buttons that sit on the right
and left on top of a typical mouse are instead on
the top center ridge, one below the other, while the
scroll wheel is just to the left of the buttons. And you
can use it on any surface, including the area next
to your laptop’s touchpad, on your knee and on the
arm of your chair. To look at it, you wouldn’t think
it was very comfortable, but after a few minutes,
you find that it’s great for small laptops and small
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spaces. Just be careful — something this small is
also easy to lose.
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