Thread: Test: Microsoft Memory Mouse 8000

With the Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 provides Microsoft working nomads with a radio mouse, either via the included wireless adapter, Bluetooth or cable communication. The radio-Stick incidentally also works as a memory stick.

Eventually annoying the Herumgedrücke to Notebook-Mausnippeln and with their nervous scratching on the mouse pad remember industrious mobile workers sometimes hungry squirrels. Easy does it with a mini-mouse, thanks to Bluetooth connection even without stop and still works at the desktop.


Who ever with a four-button mouse with through its Excel spreadsheet raved, will never be without wheels. Such mice cable entangled, but permanently on and the wireless mice disappear sooner or later the necessary radio dongle somewhere in the depths of the pack.

Bluetooth saves Stopper

Microsoft also gets to have a point, because their Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 with Bluetooth equipped. This connects them with the most notebooks within seconds. To take full advantage of functionality, however, has the IntelliPoint software on the computer played.

Missing Bluetooth, can the mouse Memory Adapter via radio or cable. This is a common USB drive. This sparks in 2,4-Gigahertz-Bereich and brings it to a range of up to 10 meters. In the rather ugly designed Stick are also still 1 gigabyte flash memory. The radio operator appears under Windows as an additional drive, and takes the most important data on the train. Embarrassing is that the nitrogen in Vista is not for the system acceleration Ready Boost can use, which seems to be up memory chips too slow.

When Apple stole the idea with magnetic cable connections.Both the nitrogen and at bottom of the mouse to find the necessary for the supplied cable. It is the connection sunk, so that he does not bother to use.

In essence, serves the cable to the integrated battery boost. This is a AAA-Typ designed and can also, if necessary, by a battery. For this idea once Microsoft gets one point. The battery should, according to Microsoft about three weeks keep up a full load requires five hours.

Always at hand

The flexible connector concept makes it possible that people in the office, the radio mouse with the dongle on the desktop computer. Does one another for the notebook a Bluetooth wireless mouse, it just grabs you. If you do not forget, and also to the cable has a mouse for all occasions. Because of the small dimensions, however, suffers the ergonomics, so who his hand bales for hours on the stand plate can slide switch to a more effective desktop mouse.

The new mouse also offered an opportunity to once again take a look at Microsoft's software drivers to throw. This can be in version 6.2 downloaded from the Internet. Two things have made us very much. First, Microsoft knows now also an "accelerated Wheel." Rädelt be nimble, the speed dynamically increased. Logitech has this idea in their first-Free Wheel.

A Microsoft also gets applause for applikationsabhängige mouse buttons. So you can now, for example, the thumb button in each program to assign a different action. We delete them in a Thunderbird spam mail (Delete key) and closes in the Firefox browser window (STRG-W). Hat trick is the first found, it will not be missed.

Conclusion: Microsoft has with the Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 a clever travel mouse, which is also easy on desktop PC can be used. According to data sheet does the mouse also works with Mac OS X versions 10.2 to 10.4.

Price: 89.99 euro (149 francs)