Buying Logitech V470 Bluetooth Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks (Blue)

I bought one of these on January 7.

I liked the fact that no software had to be installed to run it on an Apple Powerbook as an ordinary mouse [although I do understand that there are some features I may not be getting if I don't install the drivers]. I also do like the tactile feel of it, and the sound and feel of the buttons -- or at least I did [see below].

There's some good news, some bad news and some more good news. The good news is that the initial battery, two AA cells, lasted five months [used 8 hours per day at my work], which is about 50% longer than ordinary wireless mouses tend to run on one pair of AA cells. What I pay for that is the fact that if I don't use the mouse for several seconds it takes a brief time, perhaps a quarter second, to reestablish a connection. The bad news is that when I did replace the battery [with name-brand Duracell batteries] the battery seems to press against something inside the body of the mouse and now the left button is hard to depress. The additional good news is that I called customer support, waited on hold but for less than a minute, and they will be sending me a replacement without requiring me to send in the old one.

If this is the end of it, I'm happy [although not quite as happy as I would have been if it had never broken]. If this repeats I will be editing this review to remove some stars. If the replacement never comes, I'll be _really_ upset.

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