Um im sure I will be called a N00B for not knowing this but I just frankly dint know it. You see my dad has a lap top with one of those small mouses, you know the ittie bitty tiny ones that gives u cramps just looking at it and its on that spool that winds up the cord or w/e well any way i had to do alot of hw for vb and that was the only computer available because my main one was being gay but i still had the mouse for mine its a logitech wheel mouse one (the optical kind) so its usb has a wheel and the light is red im sure there are lots of models of this same type of mouse but that should give u a general idea of what were talking about well when i took it and tried to plug into the usb drive on my dads lap top it wouldnt fit.... just simply to wide. So are there really two sizes of usb ports or what is this?

Really, too wide , I must say never heard of that, I know they make usb cords that are thinner but they still work in standard USb 1.0 & 2.0 ports. I doubt it but are you sure it isn't a Firewire (ieee1394) port? Or firewire mouse (if such a thing exists)?

Too wide? I have never heard of that before.I know of one type of USB port. The particular one which is compliant with USB 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 specs.

Never heard of this before.

maybe IEEE new rule?
only exsit usb 1.0 extend 1.1 and current 2.0.

I thought there was only one standard size for USB ports. Maybe you're talking about a COM port or something, I've seen those in some laptops and can certainly be described as "too wide" Try getting those cables from some printers and see if it fits. (The wide ones) Then, it must be a COM port.

Hmm this is quite interesting indeed i guess this really is quite unique. Well now that im aware that this is a new thing lets get into the details..... okay so mouse: Logitech gray wheel, red optical laser, standard usb connection end thingy from what i can tell it fits the front and back usb ports of my computer just fine.

Laptop: toshiba not tottaly sure on the model though the smaller mouse was pluged into a side port (right side) i first tried plugging into that port but when i realized it was to wide to fit in the port i tried both ports on the back neather worked and yes im sure it was right side up and what not no it did not fit in any of the usb ports i tried all of them. So you guys have never heard of a mouse being two wide to fit in the ports eather eh? hmm odd indead

p.s. sorry about my spelling its bad i know

actualy there are two type of usb ports.. the small one and the big one. the small one are found in digital cameras and digital video cam. The big one is of course in computers such as laptops. But, i havent seen or heard that laptops uses the small port.

I believe there is no firewore mouse yet available since it would be just a waste of resources coz this port are very high speed and it will be useless to just put a mouse on it.

so it seems that the laptop only has the small usb ports that is found in digital cameras. thats weird. i guess you have to make do with the small mouse

no no im not talkng about the ones on calcs like ti 84 and cameras it looks as big but it just dosnt fit and when u put it side by side its like one eighth to small for a regular usb to fit in it damn i dont know whats going on maybe my mouse has expaned and pushed my usb in my own computer out with it? who knows

Does the mouse from the laptop work in the PC? Or could you send a picture of the usb port.