Yes.

why the question?

Just bought one for 15 bucks, waiting for it

I doubt anyone would bootleg a $6 mouse

Where can i buy one for $6?

dunno bout now, but around a year ago there were a bunch of them on amazon

Yeah, they all just disappeared :[

I remember thinking to myself I should get a replacement for my old shitty one just because they were so cheap but thought "ahhhh, they'll always be around..." and never bothered. When my wmo's left click started going faulty after a decade of use I went on amazon and they were all gone


fml.

Clearly fake

Rly?

Ya rly...

OH GAWD how do you know? It will skip like hell right? :_(

You need a lesson in sarcasm. No one makes a fake WMO and there hasn't been one made that skips in years. Just buy the damn thing already.

OH GAWD youre so nice, best news ever :_)

1.1 instead of 1.1a!!!!!!!!!!!

How you know? Whats the difference between both?

not this again

Yes, this again. Time is fractal you know.

Answering myself, the only difference between the 1.1 and 1.1a is packaging.

are you sure? My first optical mouse i bought was a WMO and I don't remember if it said 1.1a or not but I do remember it didn't have the little white symbol on the red part and it also skipped when i flicked.

I just bought another wmo and this time it says 1.1a and has the white symbol and does not skip

That was a wmo 1.0 AFAIK.

ah ok, makes sense

because mine says 1.1a and yours doesn't lollllllllllllllllllllll

^^

anyone knows about wmo moddings or different painting? I've seen only one which was a yellow alienware wmo (ofc I won't buy something that costs 4x the price but that one was ok priced actually)

To all those that dont take this thread seriously, please go away. This is a very important issue. After eons of repairing my 2nd mx300, im starting to get sick of using thick usb cables that handicap my aim. This will be my first WMO, its a very important decision. I appreciate your support, thanks.

np.

The cable on the WMO is pretty thick and stiff tbh.
Doesn't really bother me though :)

Only strange thing i notice is that all photos i see say "Wheel mouse optical 1.1A USB and PS2" but this one just say "Wheel mouse optical USB and PS2". Normal?

just buy a regular wmo (no modding, painting, etc). Worst case sceneario you lose at most $10 (on the other hand you can view it as a chipotle with beer)

edit: now being useful: don't care about 1.1 or 1.1A wmo. Just buy the oem one because it's the same mouse and sensor but cheaper than the boxed one.

Im buying the non oem, regular wmo of the photo for u$s 15 shipping included to Uruguay. I believe its a good deal.

maybe you can find it at uruguay as well.
Wmo is an office mouse therefore it might be anywhere. Actually I used it ages ago because my dad had it at his office for its ambidextrous shape.
Even so us$15 for that is a very good deal if includes taxes and everything else.

The only thing to care about is it has that crosshair-like logo on the lower part of the mouse. There are other microsoft mouses with a close shape and looks but that is the easier difference to spot.

(writing in english within 2 native spanish speakers)

muchas gracias

I think that's pretty much how everyone started using the WMO :P

I remember using a WMO for years not knowing anyone else did just because it was comfortable and it was in the office so just stuck with it. When it broke I got sucked into the whole "SUPER HIGH DPI!" craze and went for Logitech thinking "oh, I really should get something a bit more up to date" then found out tons of other people swore by WMO's as well and thought "... well guess I was right" :D

Url?

have a cookie

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-original-Microsoft-Wh...439f885735

Actually i got both mouse this one with "1.1a" on the bottom which i'm using couple years and this one without which just waiting when the other one will broke :D

It's the same mouse actually only scroll feels different ( better ) and maybe glidez are different - nothing more

:*

Definately fake OR real.

maybe i should buy a horde of WMO's as they are plentiful around here and sell them for EXORBITANT AMOUNTS of FOREIGN CURRENCIES

I would do it ASAP, its a win win. You make money and people get good mouses : )

what's the item model number? it should be: D66-00069 for the black one and D66-00029 for the white one. D66-00069 was the one I purchased at Amazon.com. That's the model number shown in the Microsoft website and if others wanted to purchase it online, just type the model number on the search function of the shopping site and you will have the correct one.

Good tip but theres no mention of model number.

White WMO's have 2 models: the numberless ones, and the 1.1/1.1A ones. Unfortunately, if you get the pictured mouse, you'll get the old version of WMO's, their optical sensor is outdated and they skip all over the place even if you use a 500hz polling rate. The 1.1 WMO's use the explorer 3.0 sensor (450DPI instead of 400, also), and these are the WMO's people use to game because they don't skip.

The black WMO's don't say 1.1, BUT they only come with the new sensors since they started making them when they updated the other WMO's.

Unfortunately, it seems like you got one of the "bad" WMO's :(

ye, i have the same one and the neg accel really sucks. feels playable with acceleration tho.

Well that sucks if true :(

1st of all. some white 1.1 come without any indications about their revisions on the sticker
2nd : only the new ie 3.0 is said to be 450 dpi [ and it's still subject to debate ], the old ie3.0 and the wmo 1.1 are 400 dpi.

I have a wmo which doesn't have a written "1.1" or "1.1a" notification, but I opened it and it looked like symphonic1985's 1.1a, instead of how a wmo 1.0 apparently looks like (notice if you follow the photo link you can find a pic from under this supposed 1.0, which looks slighly different from 1.1a)

As far as I know WMO's with "1.1" written on it doesn't exsist. If it's 1.1 it will say nothing, if it's 1.1a it will say 1.1a. Is this correct?

I don't understand what the debate is here.
what's the difference between a 'normal' wmo and the one pictured in the original post?

The issue here is knowing for sure if its a 1.1

I can't believe you didn't buy it yet.

Just buy the first wmo that appears on amazon. I didn't know about the black/white thing but most probably is fake since it comes from an anonymous user and the last version of the sensor comes from 2000 (1.1 sensor according to microsoft's website), so you would have to be the unluckiest person on earth to get an old white wmo.

In any case the black version is miles sexier.

Relax duda, i already bought it before posting the pic. Just building momentum till it arrives, for the lulz. Seriously tho,amazon dont deliver this item to my country :p and this one costs like 50% from the next one for my location from all the internets. Dont be so naive i did some research before investing 15 hard earned bucks, lovin it(c)Cooller

as to a 'standard wmo?

how do you tell?

Can anyone with both a white and a black WMO test this for me? Could you simply plug them both and tell me if they have the same alignment? I ask this because I bought a "backup" WMO (black one) since they probably stopped making them, but it has a very different alignment. I was wondering if this one might be defective, or if all the black WMO's are aligned differently.

'Aligned' how?

Well if I put both mice in the same position and I move them both from one side of my mousepad to the other, the white WMO makes the mouse move pretty much horizontally, while the black WMO makes it move diagonally. I would have to either hold the black WMO at a different angle if I want the mouse pointer to move horizontally while I move horizontally on the mousepad.

Makes sense? (Sorry my english is kind of bad)

I can't imagine that is intentional, one is faulty. The sensor of course should be aligned with the axes trough the middle of the mouse.

I'd love a confirmation before I order another one though.

I got a black one and it is perfectly rectangular aligned

I bought a black wmo from ebay and it's the same thing. It goes up diagonally and there also significant positive acceleration

Damn...Now im scared to get one. Whats up with this?

real