Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse - Limited Edition Artist Series - Oh Joy

Really no complaints. The problem with mice is even great ones are never going to be good for everyone since hands come in all sizes and thicknesses. For those of you with smaller, relatively slender hands though, I can confirm this feels comfortable for extended periods of time - no carpel tunnel after months of use. The touch wheel works great, no problems with the sensor, the buttons click in the right spots (for me).It's also very pretty and the design of the mouse is nothing to scoff at. It takes two AAA batteries and they average about 4 months for me, with about 6 hours of use a day (depending on the work I'm doing).

Looks Good. Very precise - and works on any surface (except very shiny ones). Takes a bit getting used to.Very convenient for travel as it flattens out (which also turns the mouse "off") and one can slip it into a front/side pocket of a laptop bag, without it bulging the pocket out. However watch out - the magnet in the inside of the Arc area, to hold the receiver, is very powerful. I lost the magnetic strip data off some of my membership cards (and my hotel key) through the ploy pockets. It is a bad design to have powerful magnets in portable devices - they could have designed it with an innovative slot to slip the receiver in. I understand it is supposed to help with prevention of the small receiver getting lost, but I anyway leave the receiver in the laptop USB port all the time.Which brings up the point that I mistakenly thought this was Bluetooth - it is not (I was hoping to save a USB port, by using the inbuilt Bluetooth on my Thinkpad) - kinda loses the purpose with the receiver. However the mouse over all is quite good.

I may have just gotten a defective model but the right-click button came broken such that it was permanently depressed and it always caused right-click menus to pop up unsolicited. I told the company about it and they refused to replace it, so I just sent it back and got a refund. This was disappointing since I currently have the original black version that works great. Also don't be fooled by the seemingly green design on the mouse. It's actually a golden/brown color.(disappointing because I actually wanted the brightly colored design. )

I bought this mouse, at first it worked horribly. The communication with the receiver was bad and it was lagging like crazy.So i decided to give it another chance and i RMA'd the mouse. Amazon sent me a new one... an vwala! I guess the first one was a bad one because this second one works perfectly!! Communication actually works now!. This product goes nice with the white microsoft arc keyboard. They both are very stylish and work great. Thanks Amazon for the replacement!

This is the coolest mouse I've ever owned. It squishes down flat, so it doesn't take up much room in my bag. The arch on it is perfect for my hands(but I have smallish hands...). It connects to the computer easily and performance is great! Battery life is pretty long also. The one thing I don't love is the magnet to hold the dongle when not plugged into the computer. I'm worried that it's not reliable, but I always leave the dongle plugged in anyways.

I find this mouse to be virtually unusable.It doesn't fit the hand well at all and the buttons are hard to use, especially the strip in the middle that takes the place of the wheel.I used it for a day or two and threw it into a drawer where it will languish in exile permanently.This is the worst mouse I have ever owned, period.

This is the first mouse that I've been successful in traveling with. I much prefer USB to Bluetooth, and the way the USB dongle magnetically sticks to the mouse is cool, as is the curve/flatten feature. The curve of the mouse really does take some getting used to, but my hand has now "converted" to it, aided by the fact that I now use the same mouse everywhere I go.Obvious negatives: Sometimes I will accidentally bounce my finger off the middle scroll strip, which for some unknown reason switches window focus -- frustrating. Also, I wish the scrolling had an acceleration option to get me to the top or bottom of a window quickly.Other notes: I use this mouse with a MacBook Air. To get it to work properly, I had to install the specialized driver. To configure it, I used the specialized Settings option that then appears. I felt a little silly paying $20 extra to get the "pretty" mouse, but y'know, if it makes me smile when I pick it up, it's worth it. :-)

The scroll doesn't always work, and is very loud. It's designed to feel like a physical scroll wheel, but does not, it just makes noise.When I click, I have to hit the front of the mouse for it to work properly. If my finger slides to the middle, no go. It isn't particularly ergonomic because the arch is too small.