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My friend gave me the M270, but I don't particularly care for it, so I tried to give it to my cousin, but I had to download setpoint software for her, but she's running vista, and anyways, I had to install proper driver for the bluetooth?
I turned on the mouse, tried to sync it, but it's wasn't "discoverable"? So it never detected the mouse, nor did it detect her bluetooth mouse (despite turning on the bluetooth option).
What's the delay time like on a blue tooth mouse? And are their battery lives comparable to regular wireless mice? I'm quite interested in getting one if they're good.
I really like my Bluetooth mouse (a Logitech V270). So far, it seems to perform just like a regular wireless mouse in terms of battery life -- it actually has an on/off switch, which helps. I don't notice any lag in nromal use, although I do have a couple of minor problems that may be specific to this Logitech mouse. One is that from time to time, when I'm making very small mouse movements, it will go to "sleep" automatically on me and freeze for a couple of seconds. This only seems to happen in Windows -- it has never happened in any other fullscreen program. Also, this mouse is hypersensitive, and I have to turn my mouse speed way down to use it -- which makes my touchpad useless. And for some reason, I have to do that every time I turn my computer on.
As for the Logitech software, even after downloading the latest version, I couldn't get it to work under Vista, so I uninstalled it. The mouse works fine without it (well, see above), and while the Logitech software does allow you to set two different mouse speed settings, it also disables the center-button-click (new tab) functionality in IE7, which is like cutting off a finger to me. I may reinstall a later version, though, as constantly adjusting the mouse settings every day is getting old.
Getting V270 mouse to communicate with Vista without the Logitech software was harder than it should have been, mainly because of Vista's default Bluetooth settings. You have to go to your Bluetooth Devices panel and make sure that "Allow Bluetooth devices to find this computer" under Options is checked. It's unchecked by default. Then for me it was a simple matter of turning on the mouse and pressing its reset button. When prompted, I had to go with "No passkey," as my attempts to use one didn't seem to work. But once installed, my computer finds the mouse every time, regardless of when I turn it on, and I'm only using the USB browser mouse driver.
i second your remark about this mouse being super sensitive. left unmodified, a little movement of the hand translates to a HUGE movement on screen. if you slow it down, then it makes using the touchpad much harder. sometimes you just want to use the touchpad to move a little and its not worth the effort to reach for the mouse!
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
