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Only Plug In Your Mouse Once |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 02 August 2007 |
With the huge growth in notebook computers in the market, there is no doubt an
equally huge market for devices that make them easier to work with.
Laptops
are now taking over the desktop, but typically users are faced with the choice
of struggling with the touchpad navigation device, pluging the unit into some
sort of docking station or connecting a mouse every time you want to take the
laptop off your lap.
All good solutions to be sure, but Logitech the mouse magicians have come up
with another solution that looks likely to prove more popular over time.
The Logitech VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks includes what the
company describes as a plug-and-forget nano-receiver. It's your regular USB
receiver, but it's tiny, well stubby. Protruding just a few millimetres from
the USB port so that you can plug it in and leave it in without fear of it
catching on something, breaking off or just making it impossible to fit into
your notebook bag.
In fact the receiver sticks out just 8 mm from the edge of the computer, so
you probably will forget it is in there till you run out of USB ports, that
is.
It just means you don't need to constantly plug and unplug it when moving from
place to place. Just whip out your mouse and you're ready to go.
"More and more laptop users are abandoning the touch pad in favour of a
cordless notebook mouse," said Marco Manera, Logitech's Managing Director,
Australia and New Zealand. "However, with most notebook mice, the size of the
receiver forces people to plug and unplug the receiver each time they use the
laptop. Because we were able to make the nano-receiver so small, it can remain
plugged into the laptop at all times so on-the-go notebook users save valuable
time and never have to worry about where the receiver is."
The Logitech VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks will be available in
mid-September in Australia and carries an RRP of A$129. Not bad pricing for
the laser mouse and what is being billed as the "world's smallest USB receiver
for mice (when compared with other 27 MHz USB receivers for notebook mice
commercially available as of March 1, 2007)".
Logitech says the VX Nano mouse you get in the kit has a hyper-fast scrolling
mode which allows you to fly through long documents with the flick of a
finger. To shift back to the precise scrolling mode you just press and click
the scroll wheel.
based on Logitech's 2.4 GHz digital cordless technology, the VX Nano mouse has
a low-profile design for portability to ensure it slips easily into your
notebook bag, or even your pocket. Powered by two AAA batteries there is also
a little nano-storage compartment for the nano-receiver.
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