I was in need of a mouse, so I pick a random one from IT. It was brand new and unopened from Dell. I didn’t have high expectations from the included mice, but boy was I in for a surprise.

It was a USB Ball Mouse. A what? I am sure most of you have replaced all your mice with optical ones, since ball mice suck. But it didn’t end here, when I tried to use the mouse, it complained I didn’t have the proper drivers. Drivers?? For a USB Mouse?? So they were cheap, therefore they used a ball mouse, but so cheap that they didn’t implement the HID interface for this mouse!

How many young computer users are going to plug in this “funny” mouse and wonder, “WTF is a driver?” Just plug in the mouse and it works…right?

If they were going to be this cheap, they might as well as not included it at all.