IBM Cordless Optical Mouse: RO07UO

This mouse that I picked up at Best Buy for $10 after rebates is not the greatest, but does the job.

Features: Good
Cordless-receiver is either USB or PS2 (with included adapter).
Optical-good because you do not have to clean an optical mouse
Wheel-For scrolling down the pages or cycling through weapons in games.
2 Button Right or Left Handed Design

Performance-Marginal
This mouse is good if you don't leave it alone for too long. you have to move it about 3 feet to get the mouse to wake up. (The optical sensor goes into sleep mode if the mouse holds still in order to conserve battery power.) If you are gaming and you are sitting somewhere sniping in a FPS or waiting to get money in a Strategy game, it is not good when the mouse goes into sleep mode at the critical moment when the enemy walks into your sights.
It also has poor accuracy when moving it.

Conclusion-Not worth the small sum of money paid. Get a Microsoft Intellimouse or Logitech cordless optical for cordless. The accuracy is not great but good enough, unfortunately, the feature that ruins the mouse is the power saving feature, you often have to click repeatedly in order to wake this mouse up.

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