Microsoft Habu Laser Gaming Mouse (Black) | 
| Brand: Microsoft
List Price: $69.95
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1657
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 9.1 x 3.5
nv:Device Type: Gaming Mouse
Connection Type: USB
Hand Orientation: Right
Tracking Method: Laser
Scrolling Capability: Yes
Vertical Scroll: Yes
MPN: 9VV-00001
Model: 9VV-00001
UPC: 882224309509
EAN: 0882224309509
ASIN: B000H16G3W
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Gaming mouse delivers a performance edge and a comfortable shape | | • | Offers different looks with interchangeable side button panels | | • | Huge 2,000 DPI laser engine delivers super-fast response time | | • | 16-bit data path with enhanced bandwidth supports high resolution tracking performance | | • | Created by Microsoft Hardware and gaming peripherals innovator Razer |
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Amazon.com Product Description
What happens when Microsoft Hardware joins forces with gaming peripherals innovator Razer? They give birth to an incredible advancement in gaming control: The Microsoft Habu Laser Gaming Mouse. This mouse is jam-packed with features that will give gamers a performance edge. 
Habu blends high performance with a snappy design.
View it from all angles. | Every hand is different, as is every gamers' button preference. The Habu is built for just about anyone with interchangeable side button panels that provide gamers with two options for different hand sizes or comfort preferences. The mouse delivers super-fast response time with a huge 2,000 DPI laser engine that is powered by Razer Precision, and a 16-bit data path with enhanced bandwidth to support high resolution tracking performance. With the Habu, your control will be snappier and more precise, so you'll have a leg-up on the competition when playing online first-person shooters and other fast-paced games. This mouse is also designed with on-the-fly DPI that lets players adjust DPI for control sensitivity. Set the mouse from 400, 800, 1600, to 2000 DPI with toggle buttons and take your customization to another level. Always-On mode was pioneered by Razer, and this advanced technology is built into the Habu. This mode gives gamers virtually no latency. And with high-speed motion detection, this mouse lets gamers get their speed-on with movement of up to 45 inches per second and 20G acceleration. The Habu features seven programmable buttons with Hyperesponse that allows gamers to program their button functions and caters to their favorite button layout from game-to-game. A mouse this advanced wouldn't be complete without a snappy design. The custom-looking Habu features GlowPipe side rails and large, ultra-slick Teflon buttons that provide smooth and quiet gliding. The mouse also features an ergonomic design that is built for right-handed comfort with a slip-resistant grip, and rubber-coated buttons for improved comfort during those long hours of arduous gaming. Lastly, the mouse features a thin, flexible wire that provides gamers with the speed of a wired mouse, but the feel of a wireless device.
Product Description
Microsoft Hardware has joined forces with gaming innovator Razer to bring you the ultimate high-performance wired mouse. Combining the best of both worlds, Habu unites legendary Microsoft comfort with the latest in Razer Precision. PC gaming will never be the same.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 The Microsoft Magic December 22, 2006
William Kerney (San Diego, CA)
34 out of 55 found this review helpful
As I walked out of the store with the Habu, I joked with a friend of mine (who works for Microsoft), that, knowing Microsoft, they have taken a decent mouse and applied their Microsoft magic to it to make it crash.
I laugh now at my woeful naivete. Oh, it got Microsofted all right.
Consider. You open your box. Inside there is a staid instruction manual, and an even staider troubleshooting insert, which says things like "Make sure you plug in your mouse, if it needs to be plugged in" and "Make sure you put batteries into your mouse, if it needs batteries", and et cetera, which tells you right off the bat they didn't really customize it for the product, since the Habu neither has an AC adaptor nor need of a battery or plurals thereof. BUT, as you shake the box to make all the last components fall out, a bright green inserts falls into your lap warning you quite explicitly that you need to install the drivers on the CD before you attach the mouse. Covering the USB plug on the mouse is a label softly glued to the connector, warning you with the same warning, making sure that the ignorant mouse-attacher cannot possibly miss the important fact that the drivers must be installed before the mouse is attached.
Now, see, that's funny because if you do, in fact, install the drivers first, the Habu will never work on that computer. Ever. It will only detect as a normal USB mouse, and you cannot make use of the sundry utilities to, for example, change the sensitivity of the mouse, or the sampling rate, or option any of the other options. The Habu software will indeed load, dangling these tantalizing features before your eyes, but it steadfastly refuses to acknowledge you do, actually, have a Habu connected. In fact, as I found out online, the only way to make sure that your system does not become, to coin a phrase, "Habu-proof", you must install the drivers only after the mouse is already attached. Once the drivers are on your system, no amount of effort short of a line by line audit of the registry will allow your Habu to work as anything other than a plain USB mouse. You can choose to add/remove the drivers, you can try the updated software on the website, you can try updating firmware, et cetera and et cetera -- it will not work. The only method some person online found that worked is this: flash the firmware of the mouse with the firmware for another Razer product, uninstall and reinstall the drivers, and then reflash it to be a Habu. He said that he got occasional bluescreens of death now and again, and the mouse would occasionally lurch in an epileptic seizure, but that, for the most part, he indeed had a Habu working on his computer.
In my opinion, he had an undead Habu, but I safely kept that opinion to myself.
And, naturally, to make the Microsofting of the product complete, Microsoft forbade Razer from supporting the product, making their tech support people direct all calls to Microsoft's, where they can very unhelpfully fix nothing, as true to form. Microsoft's technical support webpages and wizards are always along the lines of twenty different ways of making sure all of your cables are attached. Keeping in their milieu perfectly, the Habu tech support page has nothing helpful, only suggesting that you might perhaps want to replace your mouse pad. And, under general support, it recommends installing the latest version of Microsoft's Intellipoint software, which, of course, does not support the Habu.
As a fitting postscript, the process of uninstalling and reinstalling the Habu software several times killed my video card. Fortunately, modern medicine does work on Nvidia's products, and so my machine was not permanently blinded.
Conclusion: Microsoft can indeed take their lessons learned in software design and apply them to their hardware process as well.
 Good mouse, terrible software December 7, 2006
I. Gulko (Philadelphia, PA USA)
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
This mouse feels very good in my hand. I have slightly smaller than average hands, but it seems like it would fit a bigger hand just as well. I have been trying a lot of different mice, and this is the first mouse ever where I can comfortably press the side buttons with my thumb without shifting my hand. The alternate side buttons are a great idea. This mouse combines the best of both worlds for me. The fast sensor from Razer allows me to have a fast cursor speed without the cursor jumping over pixels. Microsoft gets credit for the great ergonomics. (I am switching from alternating between the Razer PROv1.6 and the Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000.) This mouse has a huge weak spot, however. The software that comes with it is really ugly and unprofessional, and looks like it does not belong on my computer at work. It looks like a videogame, and is also hard to use. But that's not the worst -- I can't even get it to work! I have followed the instructions that came with the mouse, and it failed to detect it. I then uninstalled and reinstalled the software, having to reboot each time. I then followed the online instructions from Razer to try the software for their Copperhead mouse instead -- no luck! Finally, I e-mailed their support department and they tried to walk me through reinstalling the software again, followed by trying to install the Copperhead software instead. It still doesn't work, and I am waiting for another response from them. The mouse works well otherwise, and I am able to set it to the 2000 dpi mode with the two buttons next to the scroll wheel. I am able to adjust the cursor speed with the Windows standard mouse control panel. However, all the "advanced" functionality is dead in the water at the moment. I noticed that the bundled software gives you the option to turn off the glowing edge, and I'd really like to do that. Update: For those of you claming user error, I followed the instructions issued by Razer tech support to the letter, and was still not able to resolve the issue. I removed all traces of my previous mice and all traces of the software. It was indeed a firmware-driver incompatibility issue, because afer I kept trying the new version firmware/driver package every time it was released, the fourth one I tried finally worked. The driver now talks to the mouse. That's the good news. The bad news is that I almost wish I hadn't -- the driver software is absolutely awful and unusable. All of the controls are tiny and unclickable, and the software is confusing. Earlier today, I somehow disabled the middle mouse button, and have not been able to re-enable it since. I have been in the software industry for ten years, so I've seen my share of bad user interfaces. This one is not the worst I've ever seen, but it's close. The drivers ruin this otherwise great mouse. Second Update: I finally got the software to work, but it slowed down my computer and actually caused Windows to blue screen (i.e. total system crash) several times. I have since removed the software and have been happily using the mouse with its limited basic functionality. I am still happy with this mouse, but cannot give it more than 3 stars.
 great mouse, software needs work January 1, 2007
Adam B. Gunn (Marin County, CA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
First thing, the drivers are poorly implemented. I followed the directions on the razer site and once I got everything done and I thought I was in the clear, I rebooted and I could never get the mouse to be seen by the drivers. again.. so I started searching for fixes and read this is an issue with these mice.. great! I returned my last razer mouse because the drivers were buggy.. sort of the same issue also, wouldn't detect the mouse sometimes.. anyways, I see not much has changed. But I was determined to get this working because I fell in love with the feel of it.. So, I did get it all working finally, but this what I had to do:
--> uninstalled all Habu software..(which is just the driver pack)
--> installed the 2.01 drivers from Razers site from a clean slate.
--> said YES to the windows warning about non WHQL drivers
--> then said NO to the reboot now option and went into the firmware folder (part of the driver pack) and installed the new firmware!! (with /no/ reboot).
--> after the firmware is successfully installed, it tells you to unplug and re-plug the Habu.. do that, /then/ reboot.
NOTE: It's very important to not reboot before attempting the firmware update because the OS and the drivers see the mouse ONLY after the driver install but after a reboot with the old firmware the mouse was never detectable by the drivers again.. it was very frustrating! anyways.. it seems any of the Habu/Razer drivers will only detect a mouse after a reboot with 2.01 firmware installed. My mouse had 1.0 firmware..
I as I said, and the more I use it the more I love the feel of the Habu.. so much like the old IME 3.0 which I still adore.. the only mouse which really just felt like a key in a lock with my hand. The buttons click is awesome and the wheel is PERFECT (resistance for up/down and depress center). The side (thumb) buttons come with an alternate panel which has the two buttons more out of the way.. I have yet to try it but that's a nice extra.. the mouse tracking is spot on! very precise and very smooth.. me likey!
giving it 4 stars because the mouse is awesome now that I have the drivers working, but wow that was frustrating.. it's a mouse for crying out loud.. it should be a no brainer install. whew.
I hope this helps some people who are thinking about this mouse!
Good mouse and a software has been fixed by now February 22, 2007
Iouri Karpov (Hoboken, NJ)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is an excellent gaming mouse, for those of you who actually bought it for uses other than browsning the internet. I play UT2k4, which is a rather demanding game in terms of speed and accuracy, and this mouse performs great. The feel is wonderful, and the tracking is great with ultra fast response.
The first incarnation of the software was bugged, but version 2.01 seems to work fine. My only complaint is that I'm unable to permanently disable the scroller light which I find annoying. And so I have to turn it off every time I start my computer.
I've used a number of gaming mice, including MX518, G5 and Copperhead. This bests them all in the sheer comfort and play. However this mouse is only good for right-handers. If you are a lefty, check out the Copperhead instead.
A recent update: I find Razer's Deathadder to be somewhat superior even to Habu.
Absolutely disappointed December 20, 2006
Gabriel Torrijos
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
My mouse had always been logitech, now I bough this for a change and I am very disappointed.
First the software have a lot of problems detecting the mouse etc, when I turn off the computer and I turn it on again, I have to unplug it and plug it again, if not, I cant use the mouse.
So stay with logitech, I have this mouse since 5 days and I want a g5 already.
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