Plus, the ambidextrous design will work equally well for lefties.Īnd there's more to this mouse than the Blue Track and lobster back technologies. The point being, for mobile computing, the Arc Mouse Touch is certainly better than the twitchy trackpads found on a typical laptop, and it's only a million times better than any of Apple's sorry pointing devices. It's also thicker than the Arc Mouse Touch, and fits better in the hand. I happen to use a Microsoft Explorer Mouse, which is excellent. The issue is one of size: For the best ergonomics, and protection against Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, you want the biggest mouse you can find. That is, this is a mobile mouse only and shouldn't be used day-to-day if you sit in front of a computer for hours at a time. In use, the Arc Mouse Touch suffers from the same ergonomic issues as its predecessor. And on the bottom of the device, the BlueTrack light also comes on, letting you use the mouse on virtually any surface. A green light briefly lights up on the top of the mouse, right behind the scroll strip (not a wheel explained below), just to let you know that power-on happened normally. When you do turn on the mouse this way, two things happen. Suffice to say it's a bit of an odd (and, at first, slightly wrong-feeling) action, but you get used to it. Doing so causes a solid cracking sound that always reminds me of cracking open a lobster's tail, but that comparison might mean little to those outside coastal New England. To use this mouse, you have to snap the back down from its flat travel shape to a curved arc. Doing so, of course, ruins the point of the flatness-its inherent portability-but let's just skip over that inconvenient truth for a moment. This is the mouse's travel mode, and while it's like this, the power is off and you can attach the wireless nubbin, magneto-magically, to the bottom of the device. When it's not in use, the Arc Mouse Touch lays flat and resembles a slab of plastic and the wonderfully grippy material that makes up its back half. In fact, it's hard to even describe this mouse. And while the basics haven't changed since the first unit, this new version features an all-new and innovative design that will turn heads. And, on that note, it was a pretty decent mobile mouse, certainly one that was more Apple-like than the typical pragmatic Microsoft product.įlash forward to today and Microsoft has a second generation Arc Mouse in the market, the Arc Mouse Touch. As I noted in my review, that original Arc Mouse had a cool design but sacrificed ergonomics for portability. A little over a year ago, Microsoft unveiled its first generation Arc Mouse, which was aimed at the mobile market and those who value form over function.
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