Installation, Testing and Comparison

Installation is easy, especially since you don’t have to charge the mouse to use it. Windows XP recognizes the mouse and installs it automatically. The Optical Liquid Wireless Mouse does have a red LED in the bottom of it for the optical sensor that light up dimly when not moved but gets brighter when you move the mouse. It glows through the mouse and creates an interesting effect. Even though the mouse is connected to a cable, you still need to use the USB receiver though and pair the mouse to it, this is done by pushing the buttons on the mouse and on the receiver, worked perfectly the first time I tried it.

After the mouse is charged for a couple hours it is ready to use as a true cordless mouse. I found that after using the mouse for over a week now it is a great all around mouse. It is actually very good in games as well, the Optical Liquid Wireless Mouse is very sensitive and reacts instantly, the only complaint is it goes to ‘sleep’ if you don’t use it for a minute or two and it takes a second or two for it to ‘wake’ up, there is a lag time that takes a bit to get used to.

I used the mouse on various surfaces, including, cloth, metal, plastic, wood and mouse pads from CorePad and Xtrac. The Optical Liquid Wireless Mouse performed very well on all surfaces, with a very fast response time.

For gaming I played a bit of Quake4, BF2 and Prey, this is where this mouse surprised me, it was very good at gaming, yes it doesn’t have the ability to change resolutions like other mice out there, but the Optical Liquid Wireless Mouse from Brando WorkShop performed on par with those professional gaming mice that cost twice to three times as much.