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Plug it into your computer and give it a whirl. Please note that I use a USB mouse with my PC, so the PS/2 port was free. If you used a PS/2 mouse like I did, you'll have to reboot your PC after plugging it in for the BIOS to recognise it.

Fire up something scrollable, be it your Winamp library, your browser or a massive Ebook and give it a test. If you find it's too sensitive or not sensitive enough, then go into your Control Panel and adjust your mouse properties, more specifically, how many lines you scroll with one turn of the wheel.

As an added bonus, see if your wheel has enough momentum to scroll under it's own weight with a flick of the wrist, like mine does.
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Jul 16, 2011. 7:10 AMmheaton1 says:
Would this work on a Mac?

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