Introduction:
When you hear the name Nexus, no doubt one of the first things that comes to mind is silence without compromising performance. Nexus has a long line of products from cases, power supplies and heatsinks. Nexus designs these products with one over arching principle: performance should be silent. Today we are reviewing a first for Nexus in the the 7000B Silent Mouse.
Packaging & Continents:
The Nexus Silent Mouse 7000B arrived in a standard blister packaging with fairly minimalist design that complements the mouse and receiver. Although the mouse can be felt through the packaging as far as size, it does not allow you to feel the quality of the mouse surface, which we will get into later. Removing the mouse from the blister pack was uneventful. The packaging itself is not friendly to being reused to store the mouse (because of the sharp edges of the PET plastic) but Nexus has you covered for transportation as we will talk about further on in the review.
Inside, you will find the mouse, manual/warranty information, receiver and 2x AA batteries. I was surprised to find no driver disk supplied, I was then happy to find that drivers installed automatically or were not required, as is the case with most mice nowadays.
Specifications:
The 7000B:
5 Comments
Glad to hear it! I think you will be happy with the sound of the second one.
I’ve contacted Nexus on the issue and they think I’ve got a malfunctioning individual on my hands. I’ll be replacing the mouse with a new one and hopefully it won’t go squeaky on me as this one did.
In our time testing it (about 3 weeks) I did not notice it getting any louder. I just pulled it out to compare the left and right click sounds. On our review sample the left and right mouse buttons are equally quiet.
The mouse lasts for about 3-4 weeks while the clicking sounds get louder and louder – whatever mechanism Nexus invented to silence the mouse, it doesn’t last very long – after which you either need to buy a new one or suffer from the annoying clickety click sounds again – of course, you could always swap buttons from your OS and get pretty much another 3-4 weeks of silence while the right mouse button wears out too, after which you are screwed.
Sure, the clicking sound is a bit quieter than with a very noisy mouse even after wearing out, but it’s nothing compared to the silence of a new one, it’s simply an advertising trick.
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