whats the difference between laser mouse and bluetooth mouse

just wondering whats the main differences between the two, thanks all for the reply

 

a laser mouse uses a laser instead of a ball for tracking

a bluetooth mouse uses bluetooth wireless communications protocol to connect to your notebook instead of a usb cable

laser and bluetooth are not mutually exclusive

/moving to accessories

 

Breakdown of mouse types:

Tracking (or how it tells that you've moved it)
Ball - Bog standard mouse. The things with the heavy, rubberized steel bearing inside. Older style, not very common any more. Very cheap.
Optical - Uses an LED of a constant wavelength to illuminate the surface under the mouse, and constantly scans and detects the movement over that surface. Usually a red light, less often it's blue. More or less the standard now for mice.
Laser - You can't see the light, but it tracks the surface under the mouse better than optical, but in a similar fashion. Often found in higher-end and gaming mice.

Connection (or how it tells your computer that it's moved)
Wired/USB - Your mouse has a tail connecting it to the computer, a wire that plugs into a USB or PS2 port. Found on the cheapest mice.
Wireless - Uses RF (radio frequency) transmissions to connect wirelessly to a little (usually USB) dongle you plug into your laptop. More expensive than wired, less expensive than bluetooth, but you've got dongles to deal with.
Bluetooth - Also wireless, but connects to either a bluetooth USB dongle or an internal bluetooth card in your laptop. If you have bluetooth in your laptop, this is one of the "killer apps" for it, since you don't need the dongle, you just power on the mouse and it's working. Most expensive type of mouse.

 

A laser mouse uses RF technology, where you simply plug an adapter into the ubs slot, and it sends signals to the mouse. Bluetooth is another wirless type that is basically the same principle as bluetooth, however, maye have shorter range and less accuracy. I would only reccomend bluetooth if your notebook has it built in, otherwise you would need a bluetooth adapter for the usb slot. If you have to use a bluetooth adapter, then you might as well just get a laser type instead.

 

^^ Looks like you're a bit confused yourself. Like drumfu said, laser and bluetooth are not mutually exclusive. Laser/optical/ball are used as a tracking device on the mouse, whereas wire/RF/blutooth are used to send the signal to your PC.

 

SSJ3Goku: Wrong. I have a laser mouse that is corded. All of these mice are laser, and many of them are corded. As drumfu said, laser and RF are not synonymous.

Look at what I posted. It describes everything about mice that you'd want to know.

 

To makes things clearer(or more confusing):

Bluetooth mice are all optical(for now)

Laser mice can be cordless(USB) or corded

 

Pitabread: I know that, I was only describing wirless mice, which I thought was all he needed to know about.

 

So how are the bluetooth mice anyway? I got a USB wireless (the VX Rev) because i wanted to leave the bluetooth to use with skype and a BT headset, just in case there was the possibility of interference or if my laptop bluetooth can't handle more than one BT device.

Plus i've read a few reviews that said it was a bit unreliable; breaking off pairing etc...

 

Did you even read what you posted? It's just completely wrong.

Laser mice do NOT use RF technology exclusively. See this.

Bluetooth is another WIRELESS technology, similar to RF, but it's packet based and uses device ID's, so it's much more robust than other WIRELESS/RF technologies.

So your sentence "If you have to use a bluetooth adapter, then you might as well just get a laser type instead." just makes no sense whatsoever. You described them wrong, which is why I corrected you.

 

Dont bother correcting me, thats not what the threads about. Yankee doodle's question had already been answered in detail, no more discussion needed.