Magic Mouse tracking degrades with battery life?

Anyone else notice that the mouse tracking gets slower as the battery is drained?
It's hard to notice while using it, but when the batteries die and you change them for new ones, you can tell the difference.

Thanks for the info, though it seems my magic mouse is fixed, after i posted my problem here, i decided to let it rest till next mornig to see if whether it was definitively spoiled or it was an isolated event, so this mornig as soon as i was able to check it out i turned on my mac and it worked as good it allways did, no traces of the tracking problem i had a few hours before, though i checked the green light underneath and to my surprise it still acted as i described before. As soon as the lasser is covered the green led goes off but this time the tracking still worked as it should, so i think its something every magic mouse does in order to save battery and to extend this led light life. The truth is that i never paid attention to this behaviour before.
Long story short i think my magic mouse just went crazy for a bit, but now is fully recovered and functional.
I must quote that when i turned off my magic mouse to "let it rest" for the night, i took off it's batteries, i'm not sure if that helped me but it is worth the try.

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