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Six months ago, HP got us to look twice at its [WiFi Mobile Mouse](http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/13/hp-unveils-wifi-mobile-mouse-and-link-5-wireless-tech-to-free-yo/), which taps into your home network so that you don't have to waste a USB port on a dongle or receiver. Now the outfit's at it again: it's quietly started selling the WiFi Touch Mouse X7000, which, as you might have guessed, sports a gesture-friendly touch strip. Before you get too excited, though, it only supports one-fingered scrolling, whereas [Microsoft's Touch Mouse](http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/microsoft-touch-mouse-unveiled/) does pinch to zoom, minimizing / maximizing, docking and revealing the desktop. Like its little brother, the X7000 promises a 30-foot range and nine months of battery life, though for whatever reason this one's only meant for the right-handed among us. Other differences: this guy has six programmable buttons, not five, including a dedicated Facebook key. Just a heads up: you'll need not just a PC, but one running Windows 7, so those of you still rocking an XP machine for work are sadly out of luck. It's on sale for $60 -- that's twenty bucks less than Microsoft's Touch Mouse but then again, it's far less touch-friendly. But is that worth the savings? And the Facebook button?! We'll let you chew on that for awhile.
**Gallery: [HP Wi-Fi Touch Mouse X7000](http://www.engadget.com/photos/hp-wi-fi-touch-mouse-x7000/)**
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