Features & Specifications
The Wireless Mouse 5000 has 2.4GHz wireless technology for connectivity with a 30-foot range. The mouse has an ambidextrous design. The big feature of the mouse is BlueTrack technology. The BlueTrack laser allows the mouse to work on many surfaces that other mice can't handle.

Other features of the mouse include a promised eight-month battery life. You don’t have to remember to recharge the Wireless Mouse 5000 thanks to the plain old AA batteries that it uses. The mouse will make a very good mouse for notebook users. Not only will the BlueTrack laser tracks on most surfaces without using a mouse pad, the Wireless Mouse 5000 also has a snap-in transceiver.

In Use
When it's time to hit the road the USB transceiver clicks into a little recessed area on the bottom of the mouse for portability. With a battery life of up to eight months, it can be easy to forget how long the batteries in the mouse have been in use. The Wireless Mouse 5000 has a LED that glows when the batteries are low to let you know they need replaced.

The Wireless Mouse 5000 may look familiar to you, I reviewed the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000 this week that includes the Wireless Mouse 5000 in the bundle. I briefly talked about the mouse at the time.

The Wireless Mouse 5000 is a compact mouse measuring in at 2.77-inches wide x 4.59-inches long. The size makes is a great option for notebook users, but the mouse isn't so small that a desktop user will be bothered.

The rounded design of the mouse feels good in the hand and the buttons are easy to reach and activate. Microsoft isn’t specific on the sensitivity of the mouse, but I would put it in the 800 dpi range. That does mean that navigating a large 30-inch screen like my computer uses feels cumbersome, but on smaller 19-inch desktop screens or 15.6-inch notebooks the sensitivity is good enough for general computer use.

The Wireless Mouse 5000 has a full size USB transceiver, which is a bit long for use with a notebook. I am a big fan of smaller transceivers like those that Logitech offers that you don’t even need to remove form your notebook for transportation.

The mouse is accurate, one of the ways I always know when a mouse is subpar is when I try to pick a specific word or punctuation mark out of a long text passage. An inferior mouse makes it very hard to be precise; the Wireless Mouse 5000 is not an inferior mouse. It was easy to pinpoint specific characters for cut and paste and accuracy across all uses was good. The mouse tracked well on all surfaces save clear glass, which is to be expected. The BlueTrack laser in the Wireless Mouse 5000 works very well.