FPSLabs - FPSLabs Home News Story - MS IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 Review

Category: Mice
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Product: IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0
Gallery: Click Here
Price: $39.99
Release Date: September 21, 2006

“More top LAN players use the IntelliMouse [Explorer] 3.0 than any other mouse.”
- GotFrag Hardware, March 2006

We made this statement back in March when we posted an addendum to our original mouse round-up. We posted this addendum due to the immense response we received from the community for not including the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0. We had thought, with all the advances in technology, that today's mice were far better than this older mouse and that the popularity of this mouse was only sustained by a few fanboys who relentlessly put this mouse on a pedestal. Apparently, we were wrong.

After many years of this mouse not being manufactured, and its availability becoming rare, Microsoft has heard your cries and re-released the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0. This mouse is easily one of the most sought after mice on the internet. People would pay as high at $60 for this mouse, used, on auction sites just to experience what was said to be the best performance you could receive from a mouse.

Here at GotFrag Hardware, we have emphasized in all of our peripheral reviews that this category of hardware is a very subjective one. Each person will have different tastes in what feels better and what size is too small or too big.

Everyone has a personal preference when it comes to peripherals. The IME 3.0 is the perfect example of the phrase "One man's trash is another man's treasure." There are many people who love this mouse, and a significant amount of hype revolved around it. On the flip side, many people do not understand why there are those who would live and die by this 5 year old mouse when technology has come so far since its release. Today, GotFrag Hardware not only has the chance to review the re-release of this legendary mouse, but to compare it to an original IME 3.0 from 2002. We will now explore and attempt to discover why this mouse has become so legendary over the years.

Let us begin...

User Comments

Nice read Stu.

#gravitas www.gravitasgaming.net

I''ll be picking up one of these when it comes out as this is the only mouse I've used that fit perfectly in my hand the way I wanted it. This review only reminded me even moreso why I will be.

MICROSOFT PLEASE REMAKE THE 1.1 SE

Great read Stu :)

It's so sassy...

9.9 sweet

Asus A8N-SLi Prem AMD64 4000+ CorsairXMS2Gb WD250gb eVGA7800GT Audigy2SE

Nice, I might buy when when I have enough money. Some people will probably buy at least 4 of these mouses =P

Seems stupid to buy this if you already own an original 3.0

Plus $40? The original cost $25-$30. Great pricing there.

Nice ..
i like it

http://tig.hk (My Dearest Hong Kong eSports Website)

ok w/e....can you PLEASE tell me if it's the same exact thing as the original? I don't want to get a new sensitivity...

looks great!

whens it come out?

IM BETTER

Ok I need to get this!

Zach " lostxp� " Denmeade

I just dropped money to get a Logitech G3.. That being said, I'll probably get this mouse. Hooray for wasting money!

[b]#excite[/b] Better than you. Better than you [i]think[/i].

nice read.. cant wait for this mouse to be out.. but theres no release date? :( and still nothing in the article about if the sensitivity is changed on the new mouse also.. alot of people are wondering about that.

akira-

omg where can i get these?

- #extraordinary @ irc.us.gamesurge.net -

Sorry folks, I thought it went without saying. The sensitivity is exactly the same. No change whatsoever. I have updated the review to include this on the Testing & Comparison page.

This comment was edited at 09/10/2006 2:25 AM

[b]Executive Editor[/b] - [i]FPSLabs[/i] - FPSLABS V2 @ FPSLabs.com

#14 The release date is September 21st.

can't wait

awesome review! can't wait to get this

^____^

So-so review.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. -Einstein

How does it run without drivers since alot of people don't use drivers for lans and such.

Can't wait to go back to this mouse. I went through two of them before having to settle for a new mouse and my experience since has been terrible. Getting a few of these will definitely be a welcome.

http://esports.divito.ca

Any chance of the Intellipoint 6.0 drivers being posted since none of the drivers currently out actually list the MSIE 3.0 and stuff doesn't work when selecting MSIE 4.0 or anything else (I have the original 3.0).

Two words

****in' A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Currently the only way, to our knowledge, to get the IntelliPoint 6.0 drivers is from the CD that ships with compatible mice.

FPSLabs - Managing Editor - http://www.fpslabs.com - #fpslabs @ gamesurge

i have a logitch mx518, but im not planning on upgrading. just dont feel like getting used to a new mouse, even though it might be better.

Like anyone will read this... WHASSUP

already got one, but now i know i can get replacement : p

The end is nigh...

#25 I am aware of that, that's why I requested them to be posted online somewhere since you guys obviously have the driver CD or are you prohibited from doing this?

Finally the sexiest mouse around is back for me the sexiest gamer to use again!

http://www.myeg.net - GET SOME! - http://www.djWHEAT.tv - Live on Three!

Can't wait to get my hands on another Microsoft mouse. The last one I had was the 1.1, but after it broke I regretably bought a Razer Diamondback, it would have been fine if it wasn't made so cheap, and then a Copperhead. Both of which were just overpriced pieces of junk; definitely not worth the money.

PS: w00bi makes me cry. :(

too used to more buttons on my mx510 now.

- d(o_o)b -

So are those mousefeet in the picture (Page 3, 3rd Picture) the original mousefeet that come with the mouse?

They look like hyperglides that's all.
That'd be great if they gave hyperglides, wouldn't it? :D

"I would like to point out a few minor things that were changed on the mouse that do not change the mouse very drastically. This would be the addition of Teflon feet versus the plain old plastic feet that accompanied the original." :D

9.9/10 sweet.

im buying this mouse

#rt #remnant

Good read.

mmmm

im going to buy one.

OHH,Hi Der.

good review :o

#kNoWs ~ #clubxx

i'm sorry, but i run faster than a cheetah

oh and #7 are you crazy? i bought my first 3.0 for 80$ CAD...

get a clue

Old one rules!

Success is failure turned inside out ^_^

ahhh, my first laser mouse. It died on me 2 years ago when I'd just gone away to college (the way I had to set my computer up in my dorm made my cord get yanked too often, and it soon shorted out). I replaced my ie3.0 with a 4.0 (whose side buttons I do prefer over the 3.0's), but that died about a month ago (I'd been having the click problems for over a year), and I now own an mx518, which is probably my new favorite (or tied with the 3.0).

If it weren't for the side buttons sucking so badly on the ie3.0, I'd go pick one up right now.

I might buy it, eventhough I LOVE my Intelli 1.1

"sit on your hand for a few hours till you dont feel it anymore, then use it, pwns" -Lango

yeah the mouse is out in my 19th birthday, who will give me one ? maybe Stu might be nice and send me the one he reviewed hah :p

nice job

remake the intellimouse 1.1!!!! That is also what alot of gamers use!!

#44 You can find the 1.1 new all over the place online. Only difference between the SE and the vanilla versions was a paint job. I was lucky and found the black version about 6 months ago, can't find it now though.

man im horny

*DEAD* [P0D]Alfred <zet> : dubbel hs

I already have an MS3.0 :)

i will defenetly buy this one. my old 3.0 got problems with right button

nice price!

lawl

sweet but i'll stick with my 518

"Wake up and Live"

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