MOUSE ❘ £38 from Amazon www.snipca.com/34871
Microsoft’s Classic Intellimouse (£29 from Amazon www.snipca.com/34872, see Issue 538, page 24) is the Volkswagen Golf of mice, while this is the Golf GTI. It’s not cheap, doesn’t come with a lot of extras and won’t turn heads, but it’ll get you from A to B with a little bit of zip.
For general use and casual gaming, this is just right Outwardly, it’s much the same wired right-handed asymmetric mouse as the Classic, with a domed top surface over a black plastic base. But instead of grey it comes in a choice of black or white, both with a graduated tint ‘shadow’ effect. Underneath, the Pro uses a different optical tracking system. The Classic has Microsoft’s BlueTrack, which projects a wider light beam…
