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The Bluetooth Notebook Optical Mouse 5000 is a very stylish and compact sized notebook mouse. I found it's size nearly identical to that of the rest of the Microsoft notebook mouse line. However, one difference that stood out to me was it's looks. Unlike the typical two-tone colour of most notebook mice from Microsoft, the 5000 has an extremely stylish design to it that reminded me a lot of a sports car. Check out the pictures below to see the awesome design that incorporates a pearloid white, black and dark blue colour scheme. I've also seen the mouse in stores with a darker colour scheme to it for those who don't like the white. For looks, I give the mouse a 10/10, it's great to see a design that stays away from the typical simple colour schemes of peripherals.

 
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Although the design was awesome, I thought this mouse fell behind a bit with features. For being a fairly new mouse, it doesn't have all the features that it's brothers and sisters do from the same product line. The scroll wheel is a simple click-to-click wheel with only up to down movement and the middle-click ability. There is no smooth scrolling four-way scroll wheel on this mouse which was a bit of a let down because I've become very accustomed to most new mice now sporting this four-way scroller design. In terms of extra function buttons, there was only a back button on the left side of the mouse. Unlike the Notebook Mouse 7000 we previously reviewed from Microsoft, there was no magnifier/forward button on the same spot on the opposite edge of the mouse.

 
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Instead of the typical single AA battery we're used to seeing to power notebook mice, Microsoft has gone with a dual AAA battery compartment for this mouse. Battery life is rated at around 3+ months of average use. I do wish that they would have stayed with the typical one AA battery design for this mouse. Not only are AA batteries more widely available, but it would also be cheaper to run the mouse when it would only take one of them at a time. A small white battery outline near the scroll wheel is your battery life indicator. When the batteries are getting low it will illuminate red to warn you. During healthy battery life, it will be momentarily green when the mouse is powered on. This light also serves as a bluetooth pairing indicator and will blink when the mouse is in pairing mode. Just so you know it's bluetooth, a bluetooth logo is placed right below the battery indicator.

Due to it's simplicity in features, the 5000 will run perfectly for you the minute it's paired up. There's no need to go into the drivers and tweak every last feature of it because, well, Microsoft doesn't actually support the mouse in their IntelliPoint software right now. When it comes to tweaking and control you are simply left with the default Windows/Mac OS mouse control panels. Honestly, for a mouse of this simplicity this is just fine because there aren't any extra features or buttons to tweak or modify. I would like to see Microsoft pickup support for this mouse in their future IntelliPoint releases because it would be nice to re-assign the buttons to other features that the user may want to do.

Flipping the mouse over, you can't miss that it's a laser mouse with the sticker around the laser sensor. Microsoft is very proud of their laser technology and this mouse is a perfect justification of that. With a 1000 DPI sensor and 6000 frames per second tracking speed, this is one accurate and precise mouse for it's size.