Macally Bluetooth Wireless Laser Mouse for Mac and PC (Black)

I wanted a bluetooth mouse to go with my new Macbook Air, so I didn't have to worry about cords or plugging in a receiver. But, this mouse is not compatible with OS X Lion! I could not get it the bluetooth connection to work, and their website is useless. I took it back to the Mac store and the tech guy could not get it to work either. He even opened another box and tried it, same result. I went somewhere else and bought a Logitech bluetooth mouse, which connected right away. So, it's not OS X Lion that is the problem, it's this mouse.

I've had this mouse several months and it worked well with my Macbook Air running Snow Leopard. However, after I recently upgraded to Lion it would no longer pair. I contacted tech support and they informed me that the mouse was not compatible with Lion and there were no plans to issue a driver update. Rather, they will release a new version of the mouse which will be compatible. Unfortunately, customers like myself who still have the old version are stuck with an unusable mouse. This is rather galling as I purchased my mouse after Lion had already been released and there were no disclaimers in the Amazon description stating that it was not compatible with LIon.

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Complete disclosure: I'm a big fan of Macally products.

The mouse arrived. A nice touch were the included AAA batteries. My Mac Mini and the mouse didn't connect happily until I rebooted. I rebooted and they paired immediately. So far they have maintained their connection and movement or a mouse click have woken the Mini up right away.

The mouse design is typical Macally: Not stylish, just beautifully functional. It's black with silver band around the middle. The buttons give good resistance and you can hear the click. The scroll wheel has good feedback and you can feel "clicks" as you scroll. I appreciate this response better than the "smooth" feel of some scroll wheels.

The manual (which takes about 30 seconds to read entirely) gives a URL to download the Mac drive for programming features. The website says it is for OS X 10.4 and 10.5. My mini has 10.6 and the driver didn't seem to install properly. I haven't heard back from Macally tech support. So far, I've been able to live without the drivers, but I do want to know what I'm missing.

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This mouse will not work on any of my macs, no current driver for 10.7.5, tech support was very little help

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The Macally Bluetooth Wireless Laser Mouse stopped working for us at about the time the return period ended. I've tried to do everything I could think of to make it work, to no avail. We cannot get the Bluetooth program to read the mouse at all anymore. In fairness, maybe it's our Bluetooth program, I don't know. We had problems the entire time with our Bluetooth recognizing it.

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