I have discovered that the ‘go to sleep’ feature on the mouse comes in handy should you (and this would never happen around here) accidentally leave the X54 uncharged overnight.

As my standard mouse is  in desperate need of a new battery,  there was enough action left in the X54 to get some work done.

I have had a volunteer for a real-word drive of X54 as a media remote for an upcoming tech seminar that will feature an advanced PowerPoint  presentation (it includes animations and flipping between slides during Q&A).

In the meantime, I decided to run a rudimentary test of the Pro features this past weekend.

The device worked, as an old Southern colleague used to say, as smooth as a slice of pie.

Slides advanced and rewound with a push of the button. My fear had been that the mouse would go to ’sleep’ if I waited too long between activating slides, but that never happened.

I got pretty far from the system, walking to about 30 feet and to different angles in regards to the computer. Never had any misfires- the screen responded to each click.  And as a remote, the X54 feels right in my hand. There wasn’t any of that sort of ‘getting used to it’ initial adjustment.

I’ve given 100’s of seminars in my career, and I really appreciated the shape and lightness of the X54 as a remote. I was able to tuck it in my pocket at one point, answer a call, come back to the trial and have it advance to the next slide with a quick push of the button.

AH, if only I’d had this back in the day….

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