Targus Wireless Presenter with Laser Pointer

This is a basic, reasonably priced product. I am confused by the complaints about short battery life: I taught four and a half hours per week and mine lasted three quarters. Just make sure you turn it off afterward!

Works just as advertised! Excellent, small, plug and play. The perfect presenter for the person on the move.

I recently bought the Targus pointer for doing PowerPoint presentations. It's simple to operate and small, which means that it's unobtrusive. I like that. You just plug in the USB connector, turn it on, and it works.

Turn it on, aye, there's the rub. I gave it to my husband and forgot to tell him how to turn it on. He and a tech-savvy friend tried for several minutes to get it to work, actually looking for an on switch, and didn't find it. It's small, the same black color as the pointer, and has no label. So, they never found it. They thought it was broken.

Also, when you click, it makes a clicking sound. I'd prefer a silent action.

The buttons for clicking forward, back, and blacking out the screen work fine. But, there's also a button for switching to other applications. It's supposed to be equivalent to pressing Alt-Tab, but I've never been able to use it. If I press the button once, nothing happens. If I hold it down, it displays the window with the other open apps, but moves among them so rapidly, that I have no control.

This product worked out pretty well for me. I had to make a very short presentation but had condense a lot of information into it. This presenter helped me save time, that would otherwise be wasted in getting to the laptop and clicking the next button every time. The laser was an additional advantage. I did buy a couple of extra batteries just in case. They came handy. If you forget to switch off the presenter the batteries run out pretty fast. Overall this has been very useful and easy to handle. No problem getting the two components talk to each other and its just been a plug and play with all computers (windows machines) that I have used recently

It is definitely plug and play, but don't forget the tiny "ON" switch on the side. Its fairly new still, so haven't used it much, but our projector came with a remote that didn't do Powerpoint slides, so this is worked out well and price was great.