Logitech intros V450 Laser Cordless Mouse

Logitech introduced yet another member of its growing mouse army today, the V450 Laser Cordless Mouse, intended primarily for laptop users -- or people with really small hands, we suppose. Available in silver or black, the V450 looks to be a fairly run-of-the-mill laptop mouse, although it does promise an impressive one year of battery life on two AA batteries (we'll need to see that to believe it -- see you in 2007!). Logitech also says the mouse should be immune to delays and dropouts in even the busiest wireless environment thanks to its 2.4GHz micro receiver (see above skepticism, as certainly no one else uses the 2.4GHz band). Look for this one early next month for $49.99 and, yes, it's both Mac and Windows compatible.

[Alex @ Jun 26th 2006 11:31PM]

Hahah 2.4GHz was funny.

Still waiting for a bluetooth laser laptop mouth with back/forward buttons :-)

[RickP @ Jun 26th 2006 11:59PM]

1 yr battery life? I'll believe it when i see it. oh, and why not bluetooth. dongles are lame.

[James @ Jun 27th 2006 12:37AM]

Ill keep using my Bluetooth 2.0 MX1000 with its kajillion buttons for all the expose and dashboard actions.

[TheVexedSoul @ Jun 27th 2006 12:42AM]

A mouse that's compatible with both Mac and Windows?! Crazy!!

[nickmanderfield @ Jun 27th 2006 12:47AM]

i enjoy my razer copperhead.

[Don Wilson @ Jun 27th 2006 1:24AM]

Maybe this'll lower the price of the Logitech V400 on eBay? Batteries I have, money that I want to spend for a tiny mouse, I don't.

Mice that don't have rechardable base stations should never rely on bluetooth for communication. Talk about a battery burn-out.

[james nahon @ Jun 27th 2006 1:50AM]

come one guys ... bring on the WiFi mice!!!

[Ypocaramel @ Jun 27th 2006 2:48AM]

A differently styled V400 with no forward/back buttons? Just to look more refined? Why? The V400 does have same crazy wireless range though.

[Michael @ Jun 27th 2006 5:54AM]

What's wrong with Bluetooth. I want a nice BT mouse with an on/off switch. I hate the dongles protruding from my notebook PC. I've bent several and think that I might have damaged my motherboard. There's already a nice integrated standard. Why not use it.

[hitkaiser @ Jun 27th 2006 7:58AM]

WiFi mouse? Lol... what would you have, WEP encryption? Have some person in the parking lot "hack" into your mouse? WiFi is so not suited to attach input devices !

[Asspigeon @ Jun 27th 2006 11:29AM]

What they really need to make is a new mouse to replace the G7. Why is there only 1 side button!?

[Elias @ Jun 27th 2006 12:48PM]

Am I alone in not liking Logitech mice, and preferring Microsoft mice? For the desktop I have a MS Wireless Laser Mouse, and I just bought the notebook version for the iBook. Works great.

[rokorre @ Jun 27th 2006 1:23PM]

well i use a v200 and have so for a good 9 months now on the batteries that came in the package so im not seeing why this mouse couldnt do the same. the v200 is honestly the best wirless mini mouse ive ever used and im thinking about upgrading to this one since it looks a little nicer and more comfortable. but no really they do get extremely good batterylife

[tim @ Jun 27th 2006 1:34PM]

>Am I alone in not liking Logitech mice, and preferring Microsoft mice?

Yes

[Max @ Jul 13th 2006 4:52PM]

I quite like the idea. be great for people with projectors are stuff where there case is far away.

[armand @ Jul 14th 2006 5:46PM]

The driver of the USB transceiver is not recognized by Windows XP and is not on the installation CD. So this mouse does not work and no explanation from logitech.