Microsoft Intellimouse for Bluetooth

I use the Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with the MBP. They work perfectly with no problems at all.

I'm gonna venture a guess here and say that any mouse/keyboard peripheral will work with a Mac at least for standard pointing and clicking.

Not as you would like it to work - basic pointing and clicking works but no way to use back and forward buttons nor to re-assign buttons, even with latest intellipoint software for mac.

I'm using a MS IntelliMouse Explorer 4 usb right now. I've got the thumb buttons set for Forward & Back, and they work just fine in all apps -- browsers, Finder, etc. Software is Intellipoint Version 6.0 (v.147).

MS Intellipoint software will not recognize The Explorer for Bluetooth mouse. Only 3 main buttons will be assignable.

Try www.RadTech.com. They have some nice bt mouses.

Hello All,

I think the best portable mouse, by far, is Kensington's Bluetooth Pilot Mouse Mini. Although it only has two button plus the scroll, I find it to be ergonomically superior to anything else I've seen. It's not too small to be comfortably useable, but it is small enough to be quite portable.

Best of all, it can be configured with Kensington's Mouseworks software. Kensington was very quick to release a UB version of this software, and it allows total configuration, on an application by application basis. Very nice.

Scott

I am using MS BT IntelliMouse. Both vertical and horizontal scroll work, but you cannot adjust horizontal scrolling speed.

You can assign thumb buttons to perform expose/dashboard actions, but you cannot assign them to be back/forward keys.

I recommend the Mighty Mouse over the Intellimouse. The MS mouse was great before they put that stupid tilt wheel in; now the middle button is prohibitively stiff.

Besides, I love the 360º scrolling with the Mighty Mouse's ball (and found the panning effect of the tilt wheel to be useless).

It does seem to me however that I was able to program the Intellimouse software to recognise the thumb buttons on the MS mouse as forward and backward. I may have had to download an older version of the software however. I know I did to get the Microsoft Office keyboard to work properly (best keyboard Microsoft made, and they all but dropped support for it in both Windows and Mac versions of Intellitype in more recent versions).

In any case, I use the Mighty Mouse at the office (where I don't mind a larger mouse), and an IOGear mini bluetooth mouse with my MBP (it's a little small for desktop use, but the perfect travel mouse -- one of my favourite things is the fact that its rechargeable batteries can be charged from the computer using a mini-usb cable, which oddly enough does not function as a data cable for use with non-bluetooth equipped computers).

I will always swear by Logitech these days. The one thing no one can argue with is that they are by far the most egernomic of any mice made. They feel great in your hand. They always have great mac support in their drivers. I just purchased their newest laptop mouse (not BT, works with USB dongle) but works great. No regrets. I did have a simple BT mouse by logitech before, but love my new one. I think it's something like the MX Revolution.