HP’s WiFi Touch Mouse X7000 works without dongles, doesn’t like lefties

Six months ago, HP got us to peer twice at its WiFi Mobile Mouse , which taps into your place network so you should not have to waste a USB port on a dongle or receiver. Now the outfit’s at it again: it’s quietly started selling the WiFi Touch Mouse X7000, which, as you’ll have guessed, sports a gesture-friendly touch strip. Before you get too excited, though, it only supports one-fingered scrolling, whereas Microsoft’s Touch Mouse does pinch to zoom, minimizing / maximizing, docking and revealing the desktop. Like its little brother, the X7000 promises a 30-foot range and nine months of battery life, though for whatever reason this one’s only meant for the best-handed among us. Other differences: this guy has six programmable buttons, not five, including a dedicated Facebook key. Only a heads up: you will need not only a computer, but one running Windows 7, so those of you continue to rocking an XP machine for work are sadly out of luck. It’s on sale for $60 — that’s twenty bucks not up to Microsoft’s Touch Mouse but in spite of this, it’s miles less touch-friendly. But is that well worth the savings? And the Facebook button?! We’ll allow you to chew on that for awhile.