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"Acercanto" <sendspam.to@microsoft.notme> wrote in message
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> Sponge enlightened us with:
>> Thats not an LED
>
> It's not??? I could'a sworn it is... Then what is it? It's not a laser,
> because M$ is just coming out with a laser mouse. And it's not
> Incandescent because.. well, just because. And it's not a flame 'cause I
> don't think it is. (Unlike the replies I'm likely to receive) ;-)
it is an LED, dont listen to that mong. my old MS intellimouse explorer even
said something along the lines of "class 1 LED device" on it. Its most
definately not your average 100w bayonet cap
>
>> and it going into powersaving mode doesn't cause latency...
>
> Hmmm, I may be wrong on that one, but I can't think of anything else that
> would cause the pointer to lag behind a tad, even on the desktop. With
> mine, pretty much the instant I stop moving it, the light goes dim,
> waiting for more input to "wake" it back up. I had always figured that bit
> of time it takes to realize it needs to wake up was the sluggishness, but
> I could be totally off..
>
i think its actually the RF shutting down that causes the delay, as wired
optical mice do the same thing and dont have a delay
> - Acercanto
> user: forestman domain: vt.edu
> I think there's a world market for about 8 computers. -- Bill Gates