Bluetake BT510 Bluetooth Mini Mouse review

Verdict:

Review Date: 8 Jul 2005

Price when reviewed: (£34.03 ex VAT)

Reviewed By: Christopher Phin

Our Rating 2 stars out of 5

Review
Specs

Apple's Bluetooth mouse is a sleek little beastie, but many of us feel one button just doesn't cut it anymore. There are a few two-button Bluetooth mice around, but this model from Bluetake looked promising.

Its plastic feels a little cheap and takes fingerprints badly, but it's an attractive enough device. The buttons have a responsive action, and the scroll-wheel clicks round in a business-like fashion. The BT510 has one unusual feature: the ability to swap the right and left buttons on the fly simply by holding down the scroll wheel and the button you want to assign as the primary click. This seems to be a solution in search of a problem, as most left-handed users have had to adapt to regular mice anyway.

Setting it up was easy: pairing the mouse with the Mac is as simple as walking through the Mac's built-in wizard.

However, we got just over two weeks use out of the two AAA batteries, which, at a fairly conservative estimate, means you'll spend more than £100 on batteries in a year. The Bluetake BT510 is expensive to run, regardless of how well it handles.

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