Belkin MiniScroller Optical 3 Button Mouse (F8E882OPT)

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Brand: Belkin
Category: CE

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

16 reviews
Sales Rank: 39015

Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 2 x 9 x 5
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty

MPN: F8E882OPT
Model: F8E882OPT
UPC: 722868373699
EAN: 0722868373699
ASIN: B00005UKBX

Features:

•	USB/PS2 Compatible

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Discover fluid, optical motion as you navigate your documents and the Web. The Belkin MiniScroller Optical Mouse uses a digital optical sensor that photographs motion at 1, 500 frames per second. It adapts to most surfaces, including a wall, your thigh, even a wooden board. Advanced, optical technology does away with the awkward and inaccurate operation of a conventional, rubber-ball mechanism, and the embedded optical sensor has no mechanical parts to clean, maintain, or worry about. Just plug it in and enjoy precise control, accurate tracking, and seamless mouse function.The MiniScroller enables one-click selection of your favorite sites, applications, or most frequently used commands such as double-click, copy, and paste. It offers a long-term solution for the mobile professional.

Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars

Not as mini as I expected January 12, 2007
G. Pinto (OH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

"Mini" is an overstatement. Looks to be about 10-20% smaller than a typical desk mouse. I was looking for something smaller for travel.

5 out of 5 stars

Tracks well on almost anything December 30, 2005
TOPJOB7 (Colorado)
I love this mouse. I had the shorter cord one (perfect for notebooks). It would track on almost any surface, reflective, blankets, carpets, pants, whatever. It tracks much better than my Dell optical mouse. After a couple of years using it as a portable mouse it started acting strange. A single call to Belkin got me a new one, no problem. The new one has the longer cord, which is a little bulky for the notebook, but I guess satisfied some desktop users. A great little mouse, I love it!

3 out of 5 stars

Excellent (for a while) June 4, 2005
D. Lynch (MN United States)
As my title says, this mouse is great until you've been using it quite a while.

When I bought my laptop, I immediately went out to find an inexpensive, portable optical mouse that would replace the touch-pad (which I don't like). I found the Belkin Miniscroller for under twenty dollars and bought it. It has been a joy for the seven or eight months I've owned it until a few weeks ago when it started acting up.

On good days, it'll work like it always has, but on other days (like today) it will stop working and the optical light will turn off. I disconnect and re-connect numerous times and the only thing that fixes it is a restart. On other days, it won't work at all, no matter what I do, and yet on other days, it will stop working, then I unplug it and plug it back in, and it works. It's really hit-or-miss; I never know what it'll do each day. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, downloading new updated drivers, and nothing has worked.

It's a fantastic little mouse, a good size for traveling but still not too small for big hands (like my huge hands), good cord length (about 4 feet), and great responsiveness on-screen... BUT, after a few months of normal use (I stress NORMAL, because I did not abuse it in any way) it may or may not start to act up and give you a lot of frustration.

But then again, it's so inexpensive you might as well buy two or three and have some back-ups in case this happens to you!

3 out of 5 stars

Great Mouse - While it lasted. July 6, 2004
Stephen Nothnagel (St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I have to say that this mouse is very well designed for laptop users. It was a great mouse, and, you can read the other reviews to find out how.

I bought this mouse when I bought my Toshiba Laptop for use in school. The mouse worked great:
*Instantly recognized when plugged in.
*Small size perfect for portable use.
*Etc Etc.

The problems started after about 8 months of constant use, being carried from class to class, being unplugged and plugged several times everyday. It worked great untill the cord got a short in it. The mouse started to stop working if you moved the cord close to the USB connector. I fixed this by cutting off about a foot of the cord and the USB connector, and connecting another one. This seemed to solve the problem, but now, after exactly a year of using the mouse, the laser light on it is turning on and off for no apparent reason, and I am afraid I am now shopping for a new mouse.

Therefore I conclude that while this mouse is great for laptops, in is not durabble enough to be called truelly portable. It cannot stand up to the use that a mobile laptop user would give it. However, I have to be fair and mention that the plug on my power supply eventually came off after being plugged and unplugged so often, so this mouse is not the only non-durable laptop item.

1 out of 5 stars Mini my foot! April 21, 2004
Not a true "mini" mouse. It is about as bulky and cumbersome as the cheapy mouse that comes with bundled PC packages. Not at all suitable for small hands (or people with a hand disability) as it so claims. It may have fared better had Belkin omitted the word "mini" from its name. A hassle downloading drivers which were not easy to find on Belkin's site. Also, there was no USB-to-PS/2 adapter in the package; you'd have to call the vendor and special-request it which they ship to you standard. They don't expedite.