Z8000 Bluetooth Mouse

On a grading scale of A to F, I would give this mouse a D. I like the basic ideas: (1) The capacitive touch surface implements touch sensitive scrolling; that is no wheel; scroll on either left or right hand side with either index or middle finger. (2) The left and right buttons may be pushed anywhere along the length of the the left or right side of the mouse. (3) The laser driven sensor provides an extremely high resolution movement. (4) It's Bluetooth, so it about instantly installs on about any PC. It is so easy. This is so cool. However, in practice this is what I've found. (1) The scrolling is intermittent. My capacitively coupled touch is not reliable sensed and often ignored. (2) Ergonomically, the mouse is quite small and thin (not very high). It is for a very small hand, and thus uncomfortable for me, with an average size (male) hand. (3) It misses mouse clicks. (3A) Single clicks are occasionally ignored and I need to repeat the click. (3B) Double clicks are occasionally ignored also. Now these are harder to analyze. You have to play with the mouse setting in control panel to get the double click speed which works best for you. Myself, after trying various such double click speed settings I still get occasional skips. (4) I think sometimes the laser sensor resolution is too great. For example, when working on edges as one often has to do in image processing, mechanical drawings, spreadsheets. Specifically, I can pull (copy) a spreadsheet cell down by a click-hold on the edge of the cell, then drag. Apparently, visually the pointer is on the edge of the cell yet the actual coordinates are not. This happens occasionally to me and I have to retry once or twice to lock on the cell edge. OK - so what to do? Well, I would say that if you have to be highly productive in what you are doing - like on the job, or under pressure to finish some outside project, this mouse is a lousy productivity tool. It will slow you down and annoy you. Now another Bluetooth mouse of HP's is the X4000b. It too is high resolution laser sensing, regular scroll wheel and buttons. This beauty worked like gangbusters. I could crank my stuff out. I bought it for my laptop. It was so cool I thought I would buy another for this here desktop. BUT I COULD NO LONGER FIND IT. So this HP Z8000 under review here looked the closest. So I had to get it instead. The X4000b is the productivity mouse to get, not this one. Get the X4000b if you can find it. Now this HP Z9000 under review here is cute little thing, with innovative touch sensing. And it's so easy to attach to a PC. (By the way, you can install it and still keep the other mouse running at the same time.) I just hate returning it. But I can't be at max productivity with it. After awhile all the glitches described above annoy me. My best guess is I'll just stick it in the filing cabinet. Then if someone wants to play with it he can, and we can just pass it around and anybody who wants can mess with it until they get tired of it or it gets lost or busted.

Mouse stop working after first month. Reach the HP support for mouse/keyboard is impossible. I was on hold for over hour several times. The pairing light does not light up, so the mouse is a paper holder brick now. Just nice looking paper holder :)