Arc touch mouse

[boohbah]

Hi folks ,in preparation for my birthday i have ordered myself an Arc touch mouse,



do any of you have experience with it and if so whats the verdict.
i have read plenty of reviews but here we get to ask questions

Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

 

[pparks1]

I played with it in the store, but didn't really care for it much. But then again, I'm also a trackball fan...so that often influences my mouse choice.

Microsoft sadly discontinued my mouse of choice. Been using these for about 7 years now. It's the Microsoft Trackball Explorer. I own 3 of them. 2 at home and 1 at work.

 

[boohbah]

any particular reason you weren't keen, size ,texture etc?

 

[panais]

Mine is better!

With 13 buttons and macros who needs keyboard for RPG gaming?

 

[StalkeR]

That looks great ! I think that I'll break it after a short time...

 

[pparks1]

any particular reason you weren't keen, size ,texture etc?

Too small in my hand. And if I rested my hand with a decent amount of pressure it would push down flat. They market it as fold it down for travel, but I don't travel with a mouse...so this is lost on me. I use my touchpad on my laptop when I'm on the go, so I don't have to carry anything extra.

 

[boohbah]

thanks, well im going to find out if it suits me soon enough, should arrive in 4 days a whole two months in advance of my Birthday.
my wife is pretending i cant have it until then, of course i will have to test it when it arrives to see it works so i can return it if not.
i hope i dont find it too fragile although i dont think i put a lot of pressure on my mouse so we'll see.
im afraid im old school. im not keen on trackpads and the same with gaming, i use a xbox 360 wireless controller hooked up to my pc as i hate using the keyboard to play games.

 

[nitroman84]

I have had that mouse for five to six months now and I couldn't be more pleased with it. I have fairly large hands and it fits me very well. On the durability side let's just say it's looks are a bit deceiving. I've folded and unfolded this thing hundreds if not thousands of times and it still locks just as tightly as it did when new. It will take a bit of getting used to but now that I have it is my favorite mouse. I have also yet to find a surface it will not work on.

 

[pparks1]

, i use a xbox 360 wireless controller hooked up to my pc as i hate using the keyboard to play games.

That's funny, most of us who do any gaming on our PC's like the keyboard and the mouse way better.

 

[panais]

, i use a xbox 360 wireless controller hooked up to my pc as i hate using the keyboard to play games.

That's funny, most of us who do any gaming on our PC's like the keyboard and the mouse way better.

For RPG i use my G700,for FPS in most cases i use my Logitech Rumblepad 2.

For eating i use chopsticks.

 

[boohbah]

i started out a console gamer years ago, atari then mega drive and so on and only got into computing about 4 yrs ago. i like being able to lay back on the sofa away from the screen to play.

 

[panais]

i started out a console gamer years ago, atari then mega drive and so on and only got into computing about 4 yrs ago. i like being able to lay back on the sofa away from the screen to play.

Yeah!

 

[boohbah]

ok ,im using the arc touch mouse now ansd its a little small but very nice ,one small glitch, i have assigned a hotkey function for when in firefox. i want when i double tap the middle to be able to refresh the page, i know in ff its F5 and ive assigned it but it keeps on going to the default auto scroll when i double click the mouse in firefox. bit annoying.

 

[panais]

ok ,im using the arc touch mouse now ansd its a little small but very nice ,one small glitch, i have assigned a hotkey function for when in firefox. i want when i double tap the middle to be able to refresh the page, i know in ff its F5 and ive assigned it but it keeps on going to the default auto scroll when i double click the mouse in firefox. bit annoying.

Congrats for the new game!

 

[boohbah]

thanks.
fixed it i assigned the F5 hotkey to the mouse in the general setting and not the program specific settings and it now refreshes my page without me having to move the mouse ,Yay!

 

[panais]

thanks.
fixed it i assigned the F5 hotkey to the mouse in the general setting and not the program specific settings and it now refreshes my page without me having to move the mouse ,Yay!

How many assigned buttons you have?

 

[boohbah]

just two for now, it is a touch scroll and for the middle button i think i can add as many hotkeys to it as i want by selecting the program first ,im still experimenting at the moment, as of now it refreshes page in ff and in winamp it pauses/plys the track . still messing about. i dont think there is a limit to how many progs i can asign a hotkey function for the middle button.

little bit annoying despite taking the focus from winamp when in firefox double tapping the middle button doesnt refresh the page it pauses winamp. looks like i gonna heve toforget the hotkeys for progs and just stick with the refresh .

also the mouse wont show as the picture of the mouse in devices and printers, all that shows is the nano transceiver ,which has a keboard icon. as i type it is installing an update that is related to the mouse so we see if it changes.

updates failed so i think its because the driverswere already installed and that s what the updates were about ,according to the info from ms help.

 

[nitroman84]

just two for now, it is a touch scroll and for the middle button i think i can add as many hotkeys to it as i want by selecting the program first ,im still experimenting at the moment, as of now it refreshes page in ff and in winamp it pauses/plys the track . still messing about. i dont think there is a limit to how many progs i can asign a hotkey function for the middle button.

little bit annoying despite taking the focus from winamp when in firefox double tapping the middle button doesnt refresh the page it pauses winamp. looks like i gonna heve toforget the hotkeys for progs and just stick with the refresh .

also the mouse wont show as the picture of the mouse in devices and printers, all that shows is the nano transceiver ,which has a keboard icon. as i type it is installing an update that is related to the mouse so we see if it changes.

updates failed so i think its because the driverswere already installed and that s what the updates were about ,according to the info from ms help.

I have never used the hotkey features of the mouse so I am not much help there. As far as the intellipoint software goes windows update has been sort of hit and miss so I just manually download the installer from the website. And lastly you are not alone as far as devices and printers, Mine has always just shown up as the nano transceiver. I also have the Arc keyboard and it does show the correct icon. :huh:

 

[panais]

just two for now, it is a touch scroll and for the middle button i think i can add as many hotkeys to it as i want by selecting the program first ,im still experimenting at the moment, as of now it refreshes page in ff and in winamp it pauses/plys the track . still messing about. i dont think there is a limit to how many progs i can asign a hotkey function for the middle button.

little bit annoying despite taking the focus from winamp when in firefox double tapping the middle button doesnt refresh the page it pauses winamp. looks like i gonna heve toforget the hotkeys for progs and just stick with the refresh .

also the mouse wont show as the picture of the mouse in devices and printers, all that shows is the nano transceiver ,which has a keboard icon. as i type it is installing an update that is related to the mouse so we see if it changes.

updates failed so i think its because the driverswere already installed and that s what the updates were about ,according to the info from ms help.

Do you have macro manager in the mouse software?

 

[boohbah]

yes there is a macro setting. not sure what thats about though