Microsoft Surface Arc Mouse, Light Grey - CZV-00001

If youre looking for a mouse that can be used to browse the Internet and do very basic computer tasks, this is your mouse. If you plan to use this mouse for professional use, I strongly suggest buying a gaming mouse for the same $60 price tag. Lots of mice work on Windows. There is no need to buy one that is functionality reminiscent of pairing your Windows machine with an Apple Magic mouse. Aesthetically, it is a beautiful mouse. Taking it out of your bag at work or in a cafe and snapping it to its "on" position is incredibly satisfying. The feel of the mouse is mostly nice, however I noticed that it really can feel flimsy on a tight grip or a rough surface, making it difficult to control accuracy. I get that the mouse is supposed to be portable, but I think it needs more weight in the base near the palm to become more accurate. This mouse still needs some serious work. I bought it to pair with a device using a high end Bluetooth interface card, thinking I would have stellar connection performance. This mouse lags A LOT. I spend my days working with code and prototypes. Not much is more frustrating than selecting several lines of a document to have the mouse lag on the last click and trash your objective. The left and right click is not overly defined. I felt that I had to really concentrate to right click certain menus when deep in work. I thought at first it was the batteries. I tried replacing them. I tried using a better mouse pad, ending up with what I use to game on my desktop. I tried updating my interface card and tried different drivers. Nothing helped. You can get the same functionality by sacrificing a USB port and getting a $9.99 mouse with a dongle or going with a $49.99 wired gaming mouse and the reliability will be 100 times better.

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I’ve used Microsoft mice for a long time, since the 1980s, actually. (Time flies!) This mouse has some great design ideas but is ultimately so flawed that I returned it. First off, there’s no driver or software for macOS (which is odd because previous Microsoft mice supported it just fine). Using the default Bluetooth pointing device drivers the mouse works, however scrolling with the touch surface is stuttering, imprecise and extremely frustrating. The more serious issue is a mechanical design flaw: because of the way the mouse button are bent over, pressing the mouse button will invariably move the mouse a little bit and thusly also move the mouse pointer. The only way to prevent this is sort of clamping down on the mouse which will fatigue your hand really quickly. Unfortunately, unlike many other Microsoft mice I’ve used before, this one is so flawed in this basic design feature that it is inherently broken. Perhaps a future iteration can fix this (shallower bend angle?), and provide Mac drivers as well.

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