optical_mouse mikey got one. love it. WOW! dont need a mouse pad and it blows away my old nice trackball. 010310 ... Aimee can I stalk you now? is it my turn?? :) 010310 ... mikey please do my dear =o) 010310 ... aimee yay!!! I get to be a stalker ::throws on black turtleneck, pants and face mask:: 010310 ... mikey oh great your a psychotic stalker! 010310 ... BnB they're great... unfortunately, they won't work on surfaces that are pure white. You'll need some type of dark surface or some type of surface with a picture on it for them to work properly. 090215 ... abraham linking avoid flarcho, get laser_nuts 090215 ... Strideo strange that this should come up. I've got my laptop on a table with a reflective surface and my optical mouse wouldn't work on it so I took a plain white sheet of copy paper to use as a mouse pad and it works just fine. ... 090215 what's it to you? who go blather from