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Important
Information About the Pack N' Go Travel Case
Included
With Your Contour MiniPro Optical Mouse |
Designed
to Protect Your Investment!
Contour Design, Inc. has
made a special effort to help ensure that your investment in the
Contour MiniPro Optical Mouse and the host computer are protected.
In addition to the
outstanding design and precision optical characteristics of the
MiniPro Mouse, itself, we have provided a specially-engineered travel
case. It is known as the Contour "Pack N' Go" case - to
keep your new mouse safe and "healthy" AND to help protect
the investment you've made in your PowerBook, iBook or any other computer.
Your
Computer Mouse is an Active Extension of Your Computer's Motherboard
Many computer users do
not realize that the mouse they use is an active component of their
computing system.
By "active" we
mean that the mouse, like the keyboard and other electronic devices
which attach to your computer, are both physically
and electronically
connected to it.
The mouse receives
electrical power from the computer and the "buttons" and
movement of the mouse, as determined by the mouse's optical
sub-system, make changes in the electrical power to send signals to
the computer. These signals, translated and interpreted by the
mouse's "driver software," communicate with the computer
where the mouse pointer is and what you, the user, want the computer
to do in support of an application.
The
crux of the matter is that, since the mouse is an active electronic
component, it needs to be cared for just as you would ANY electronic device.
Thousands - possibly even
more - of end-users, such as you, carry along a mouse with their
laptop or notebook computers. Often times the mouse cords become a
nuisance and get in the way of effective portability.
So it gets wrapped around
the mouse without any sort of protection!
Problem is, in so doing,
many users expose their mouse cords to unnecessary wear and tear.
Bending, twisting, and/or kinking the cords possibly resulting in the
pair of wires in the cord fraying and breaking.
Fraying and breaking may
cause a short circuit between two wires - each of which is operating
at a different voltage potential. A short circuit results when two
different voltage potentials make contact with little or no
resistance between them.
No resistance means
maximum - albeit VERY temporary - current flow.
When that happens,
something has to give!
The spark you might see
and/or the burning insulation you might smell are only symptoms that
something has gone wrong!
The "best case"
scenario is when only the mouse stops working. Cost = $50 or less,
exclusive of the inconvenience which results.
Next "best case"
scenario is when the short circuit only wipes out the power supply.
Maybe only a couple of hundred dollars to replace that!
The "worst case"
is when the short circuit wipes out the motherboard - effectively
destroying the central processing unit (CPU) and the expense could be
in the range of $500 to $2000 - maybe even more! [Note: the author of
this section writes this from painful experience!]
In all cases, concern for
the cord should be an integral part of the overall care you give your
computer system.
Strange things can
happen! For instance one of our resellers reports that one of their
Customers has a parrot, which chewed through the cord of a
(non-Contour) mouse and shorted it out. Luckily the bird didn't get
fried - BUT the rodent died in the process!
What
You Should do to Protect Your Investment
The Contour MiniPro
Optical Mouse's small footprint makes it an ideal mouse for use
"on the road".
This is why we put so
much emphasis on the design of the "Pack N' Go" case.
If you keep and properly
use the "Pack N' Go" travel case, you will minimize
the risk of bending, twisting, or kinking your mouse cord while traveling.
We have designed the
"Pack N' Go" case to minimize the chances of a user
wrapping the mouse cord improperly around the "posts" and
"fences" inside the case and therefore causing too sharp a
bend in the cord. Taking the time to wrap the cord carefully is apt
to yield big rewards downstream - at least help prevent unnecessary
maintenance expenses! |
