Installing Microsoft Arc mouse on Mac OS is quite easy. Just follow these steps and you will able to install Microsoft Arc mouse on your Mac. When you plug in the USB receiver of Microsoft Arc mouse, Mac OS detects it automatically within a fraction of second. That means, Microsoft Arc Mouse works.
The major talking point about the Arc Mouse is the unique shape. When open, a symmetrical smooth boomerang curve that looks poised and ready to leap. When closed, a crouching low-to-the-ground turtle disguised as a mouse.
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The shape works very well in the hand, and the hollow bottom provides a great place to wrap the non button fingers around for a good grip. The two main buttons fall easily to hand, and click softly, sounding almost exactly like a BMW turn signal. The rubberized scroll wheel, while easy to use, is only of the basic variety, and a bit “clicky” and cheap sounding for my tastes. In a quiet environment, it’s downright obnoxious to fellow library patrons. There are no whiz-bang scroll wheel features, just vertical scroll and wheel click. Given the overall design, it would be great to see a nicely machined aluminum wheel with a bit more heft – like the one used by the equally new for. The top of the Arc Mouse is finished in an extremely high-quality glossy paint with a glass-smooth finish.
My red sample was absolutely flawless, and has faint metallic flecks in it as well. Such a shiny finish would seem to imply a lack of scratch resistance, but in my two weeks of travel on trains, planes and in cramped hotel quarters, I’ve seen no hints of blemish. The Arc Mouse, while symmetrical, appears at first not to be lefty-friendly, as there is only one side button for right handers.
However, the placement of this side button renders it completely useless. It’s at least 15mm too far towards the front of the mouse to be accessible by thumb. In fact, the only way to side click is to hold the Arc Mouse “claw” style with index and middle fingers curved, but then normal clicking is not comfortable and scroll wheeling is impossible. Lefties, on the other hand, (sorry, bad pun), have no such difficulty and can easily use this side button with their ring finger.
I’m sure this was not Microsoft’s intention, and so I have to say this side button is a major design flaw on an otherwise well designed product. First Impressions of the Arc The Arc Mouse is packaged almost like cosmetics – in a beautiful, see-through plastic box.
The mouse itself is a glistening, glossy sight to behold, and artfully opens up to futuristic semicircular shape, quite appropriately, an arc. Unfolding the Arc Mouse reveals a tiny USB dongle hidden in a crevice on the underside of the folding “wing” which becomes the mouse palm rest. Both the underside and the sides of the mouse, and the exposed surfaces of the wireless dongle are finished in a rubberized paint, in my case, a matte dark red.
Alkaline batteries are included, but, in a nod to the internet saavy consumer, no driver CD is included in the package. This cost-cutting is very unfortunate if you saved the unboxing for a long road trip and don’t have immediate access to the internet to download the drivers. Overall, build quality is top-notch and if the Arc Mouse’s performance lives up to its looks, Microsoft will have a winner on its hands. Here’s a visual comparison of the two mice.
In my review time with both mice, I found the Arc Mouse to be the far better travel mouse because of the folding design with magnetic dongle holder, smaller dongle, and carry case. However, the Explorer Mini is the better travel mouse for desktop use, with better tracking, a more solid feel, and a smooth, expensive-feeling scroll wheel. It is a clunky option for travel because the large dongle, when stored in the snap-in location, is easy to lose and protrudes awkwardly from the bottom of the bulky mouse. I enjoyed using both travel mice; your choice should depend on what importance you place on portability. Recap Microsoft takes a rare industrial design risk in order to come up with a truly innovative new entrant into the portable mouse market. Despite a few flaws in usability and set-up, the Arc Mouse is an excellent travel companion, and capable of replacing the general-purpose desktop mouse for those who have fairly basic requirements.
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Microsoft really must be commended for giving the road warriors a beautiful, ergonomic alternative to a bulky mouse or annoying trackpad, and for that reason alone, the Arc Mouse is a worthy recipient of my recommendation.
I bought a Microsoft Mouse and am trying to install the drivers on the CD. The problem is that when I run the installer it says a newer version of the software is already on the hard disk so it can't install. This can't be true though, because the software connects to the internet and checks for a newer version, which it doesn't find, meaning that it is the newest version. I have ran the Intellipoint Uninstaller to remove the old drivers from my system, and removed the entries in the System Preferences panel. Still, the system thinks the software is still on the system. How can I get this installed?