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by Noah Kravitz, Reviews Editor 9 October 2006

Little Mouse With No Tail: MacAlly BTMicro Portable Bluetooth Mouse

MacAlly BTMicro Portable Bluetooth Mouse



Pros: Tiny; Cute; Charging Cradle is More Cute
Cons: Tracking is Touchy w/o Mouse Pad
In Sum: Tiny, Cute, Decent Bluetooth Mouse
Pricing: $49.99, Macally.com More Info: Product Page

MacAlly's BTMicro Portable Bluetooth Mouse is pretty decent, all in all. It's tiny, cute, and has left and right buttons and a clickable scroll wheel. It comes with a cute little charging cradle and pairs easily with OS X's Bluetooth Setup Assistant. It's well made and pretty reasonably priced, too. On the other hand, here at the cafe where I'm writing this I had to put the thing on a napkin to get it to work - the optical tracking system's kind of sensitive about what surfaces it likes to work on. Then again, so's the tracker in my desktop mouse at home. It's just that there I have a mouse pad.

The thing with this is that I thnk I just don't mind using the trackpad when I'm working on my iBook away from home. That and I don't really like "travel size" mice very much. My hands are kind of big and my fingers are pretty nimble. So trackpadding works for me. I installed Sidetrack on my machine so I could do vertical scrolling, too (even though it's purported to be a memory leaker). If you're in the market for a portable Bluetooth mouse, the BTMicro is worth a look. Me, I think I'll stick with my trackpad and maybe check out their full sized BTMouse for desktop use at home.

The MacAlly BTMicro mouse sells for $49.99 and is available direct from the MacAlly Web Store. Compare prices at PCPrices/Mac.

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Noah Kravitz is the Reviews Editor for PBCentral. A writer, educator, and musician, he lives in Oakland, CA and is the author of Teaching and Learning with Technology.


 

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