Cost effective, to a point...
Written: Jul 27 '00
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Product Rating:
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Pros: Inexpensive mouse-ing soulition for new PC owners.
Cons: Sub par components, make this a super-fragile, and short lived device.
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| kfj001's Full Review: Belkin Classic Mouse |
There is nothing wrong with discount computer equipement. You can't use a computer without a keyboard, and a mouse. Peroid.
Computer periferals can be VERY expensive, unfortunately, Belkin's attempt at a discount mouse, is very obviously, a cheap attempt at computer hardware.
The Facts
The belkin basic mouse features:
PS/2 & 9-pin interfaces
Driver software for Windows 95, 98 & NT
That's it. (This IS a basic mouse...)
</b>The Problems...</b>
Belkin tries to get away with discount computer periferals, by doing only one thing. That's making them out of cheap components.
Belkins basic mouse is NOT going to last very long. The components are terribly flawed, rendering the mouse suceptiable to perminant damange, just through casual use.
Examples:
All three buttons are placed on a small, plasic riser peice, which is angled, to press a metal contact, onto the mouse's tiny circut board. The problem with this is that after a few "hard" mouse clicks, the little plastic ramp thingy breaks, leaving it impossible to "click" your mouse! This will eventualy happen to all three buttons, rendering the entire mouse, unusuable.
Further into the mouse...
The internal ball-tracking system is a joke. There is a small, wheel shaped, well, wheel, in the upper left hand corner of the inside of the mouse. This part is responsible for keeping the track-ball, firmly planted on BOTH X & Y scroll wheels (inside the mouse) at all times. This component is critical to the mouse's operation (for MOVING!) And this is one of the first components to go in this cheap mouse. The fixture that this critical "wheel" sits on, is spring loaded. Most commonly, the spring becomes stretched out, or the tiny plasic pin, which the spring sits, becomes warn, and the spring is no longer holding the fixture.
This leaves the mouse, with the approximate traction of an airplane, on water.
So, if your getting your first PC, on a tight budget, BELKIN mice will get you through the first 3 months of it's lifetime. But after that, you have little choice, but to get a new mouse.
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 5.99
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Member: Kyle
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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