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Woo hoo! Someone actually found a store with Mighty Mouse for sale.

Tera Patricks
Mac360

Most reviews go through these nauseating into steps then begin to formulate an opinion about the subject.

This article publishes the nauseating steps in greater detail than the actual review.

Wow, gotta love online journalism. I believe a high school newspaper even has an editorial staff.

It's a mouse.

IT'S A FRICKING MOUSE!

Yeesh.

its a good mouse replaced my logitech mouse but then again I'm a zelot...

I like these "play-by-play" reviews. After all, this is exactly what new Apple Mighty Mouse owners are going to go through, so it's the best kind of review IMHO.

Thanks, SteveJack - I now know exactly what to expect when I buy mine tomorrow. Great review.

Unlike some, I appreciate the detail - most reviews just give an opinion, but with this article I can see exactly how SteveJack arrived at his opinion. A mouse is something you have to use constantly all the time - it is very important! I'm buying a Mighty Mouse!

Cool........It took them a while, but they did it right......Both my MacMice (work and home) are acting funny; sounds like a good excuse to "upgrade."

decent review, but you can delete the middle third of it.

>theloniousMac: IT'S A FRICKING MOUSE!

Yeah! But this is Apple, so there are obligatory articles of excitement.

I love how the article talks about...

If you click on the left side of the mouse, that's a left click. If you click on the right side of the mouse, that's a right click.

This mouse *IS* a breakthrough!

Mac & PC Guy,

The way I read it is that the mouse is just like the Apple Pro Mouse when clicking, but the Mighty Mouse knows which side is left and which is right. That's cool. I think you have to use one to understand it fully.

I'll take a review like this over the kind of crap we get from the Enderles of the world any day. SteveJack obviously touched the mouse and used it.

Where is the Blue Tooth edition

>Fred Mertz wrote: but the Mighty Mouse knows which side is left and which is right.

Like I said earlier,"This mouse *IS* a breakthrough!"

Mac & PC Guy,

Have you used the Mighty Mouse? I have. The point is that for users of the Apple Pro Mouse, the clicking is identical except that the new mouse very ingeniously can accommodate right and left click without adding physical buttons. This is important info for millions of Apple Pro Mouse users - the new mouse will feel exactly the same for them. It actually *IS* a breakthrough. Go use one before you type, okay?

As someone with with a severe to profound hearing loss, the lack of tactile feedback scares me a little. Could Mighty Mouse end up being infuriating to users with hearing loss?

Ok, everyone join in.

BLUETOOTH!!! BLUETOOTH!!! BLUETOOTH!!!

I think I just saw another flying pig go by. I saw the first one when the Intel decision was made. Good onya Apple.

Now if only my third party software was Tiger compatible I could get into this…alas I'll just have to be patient.

MDN word "little" as in "From little things big things grow"--- Paul Kelly

I don't think people are realizing that yes, it's a mouse. But it's INNOVATIVE.

Apple designed the first mouse (from what I've heard) and this is the first time in 20+ years that they have changed that.

Yeah, it's a mouse. But it's not just any ordinary mouse. It's an Apple mouse.

I will be ordering this mouse right away. I do wish (hope) that Apple adds some volume control. It would be nice to be able to turn OFF the sound if is late and you do not want to disturb anyone (playing games).

Can you hear the chirping of the crickets over the clicks of the non-bluetooth! mouse?

Actually I like the physical click of the mouse. Music and games will not allow you to hear the mouse clicks. Is this a problem? Dunno. All other mice actually click.

Does the software allow you to change which button does what based on the application you are using or is it one setting for all. It would be a 'deal breaker' if it didn't. Even the MS Mouse software allows that.

It set the right click to open link in a new tab in browsers and be a control-click every where else.

And now for the wireless one

NOTE TO ENDERLE - Try product before reviewing!!

This is a REAL review by someone who has actually used the mouse!

No that IS a novelty!

I'm very amused by the amount of coverage that this mouse is getting. It's getting embarrassing.

I also think it breaks the KISS principle. Not because it has more buttons, but because they've gone to such lengths to disguise the buttons, over-engineering like hell (having to put speakers in the thing because it doesn't have real buttons!).

What's the problem with just having two ordinary separate buttons on the top ? It would still be possible to make the right one act like a left one.

The scroll ball is perhaps the only innovation.

Hywel,

Putting two discrete buttons on a mouse automatically makes it more complex. I've seen many users in my time accidentally click on the right button, only to have a contextual menu come up and be utterly confused. It's even more problematic for lefties, because the right-handed majority refers to it as "right-click"

Apple SOLVED the multi-button problem by not using any buttons at all. That's right, Mighty Mouse is not a multi-button mouse! Mighty Mouse is a zero-button mouse that ACTS like a multi-button mouse.

In default mode, it looks and acts exactly like a standard zero-button mouse that ships with every Mac. But underneath the zero-button surface, Mighty Mouse has special powers unleased via the System Preferences that allows it to imitate the behavior of multi-button mice without the need for actual buttons. That's pretty ingenious, if you think about it.

Apple is giving both single-button and multi-button proponents exactly what they want, without compromise.

To put it another way, some people think Miller Lite "taste great" while other people insist the exact same beer is "less filling." Mighty Mouse is a zero-button ordinary mouse one moment, and a superhero multi-button mouse with a quick trip to System Preferences. It is both a one-button mouse and a multi-button mouse.

Good review, SteveJack!

All Apple's recent mice are crap, unresponsive, uncomfortable and ham-fisted. I've finally reverted to using a Kensington USB ball mouse - wonderful! - I feel in control again! Like every designer I need to lift and move my mouse with the button depressed (especially using Lasso in Photoshop, for example) which means gripping the side of the mouse outside of the button area - almost impossible with Apple's mice - or, JUST possible but very awkward. Will now be 10 times more awkward with this thing.

NewType,

Look, I'm probably going to get one of these at some point, I use a one button mouse quite happily, so I'm in no hurry. But it is over-engineered. Of that there can be no doubt. I'm not talking about how simple it is to the user, I'm talking about what's gone into it. It's got a fucking speaker inside for fuck's sake !.

It seems that it does have a button. One button, but the function of the button is determined by what went on at the surface.

It's probably a decent enough device, but it's just a mouse. Honestly, all this coverage is embarrassing.

which means gripping the side of the mouse outside of the button area - almost impossible with Apple's mice - or, JUST possible but very awkward. Will now be 10 times more awkward with this thing

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fascinating that you decide to ignore one of the standard Apple mouse's 'hidden' benefits.. something almost no one uses.. the little side grips for picking up the mouse... depressed..

wow wow wow..

Mike's right. It's funny because I was just sitting here using said grips to pick up the mouse depressed when I read his post. Maybe if you have to do it all the time it's different - and I don't know any designer who's using lasso for 8 hours a day - but it feels rather comfortable. But hey, it's only a mouse...

thanks mike,

I was just going to make a similar response to Twenty...

Twenty,

How is this new mouse design 10 times more akward? You lost me.... this has the same form factor as Apple's current mouse offering. I can agree that the current design may be cumbersome to many, but this new offering in no way increases that akwardness.

If we told you a million and one times... stop exaggerating!

Nice Review. I actually stopped by the Apple Store Ginza today and tried one out too and my impression was pretty much the same. It's Great...... for a mouse. It still doesn't come close to the ease of use and control I get using just my fingertips with my Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro Trackball. Sorry guys, after you get used to using a good trackball you will never be able to go back to a move-your-whole-arm mouse.

I hope that Apple continues along this new avenue and releases an Apple trackball at sometime in the future. That I might go for (if it has enough button )

Still, I think they will sell boatloads of these. Maybe a bunch of them to windozers. It'll never reach the level of the iPod as a trojan pony but it might give some more of them a little sip of the Kool-aid and get them wanting to come into the light.

I think Twenty meant with his "10 times more awkward" comment, was that the side grips in the old Apple mouse are actually buttons in the new mouse, so you *can't* grip them while button 1 or 2 is pressed, since this would trigger "button 4" as well.

You could probably get away with not gripping so tight as to trigger the button when you lift the mouse, but this isn't really an optimal solution, especially since the grip button is touch-sensitive rather than a physical switch.

The Windows world never saw this coming. Everyone will be buying a Mac for these new features. You'll shit in your pants when you use this new product.

Why does every Apple product sound the same? Pixar movie are like that too. Is Steve the only good business man?

Feels like an Apple Pro Mouse... Good to know! I really despised the feel of that mouse. I don't like the feel of the whole mouse clicking down, nor the side buttons which don't meet my thumb and fingers correctly.

The scroll marble is a very cool idea, though. I wonder when Logitec will come out with one (if it isn't patented).

Hey, do you think it would be possible for me to add the ability to change my scrolling speed through an option in the contextual menu? With AS or Automator, perhaps?

If anyone could explain to me how to do this I would appreciate it, because I would love to be able to change my scroll speed without going into system prefs.

> Borneau wrote: Have you used the Mighty Mouse? I have. (snipped) for users of the Apple Pro Mouse, the clicking is identical except (snipped) Go use one before you type, okay?

You say identical to the old Apple mouse, I'll take your word for it. I happen to have 6 sets of those running on 5 different Mac video edit bays. My personal station is using a two-button Logitech. You say it's identical? I hate the crappy Apple mice, from the ones that came with my PowerMacs at the office to the one that came with my iMac.

But if you insist on your argument that people are not experienced enough to comment on a mouse unless they use the Apple MM, then so be it. If you get riled up over a mouse... yikes!

Like others, I would also like to see a bluetooth mouse in the future. But, many people still have perfectly good computers without bluetooth added to them. For those, a corded mouse is still a good thing. Further, adding bluetooth will add weight and the headache of battery replacements or recharging. It will also change the weight and feel of the mouse itself. When I tried it, doesn't feel too bad right now. And, it is environmentally friendlier as it sits now.

So, wireless is nice. But, there is also a good case to be made for wired. A choice would be a good idea.

I wonder how battery life is with the MM in bluetooth form. All of the additional audio feedback, touch sensitive switches, etc., must impact power draw.

why the h-e-double hockey sticks do you need tiger for a friggin' mouse? Has anyone tried this on Jaguar or Panther?

Twenty Benson:
The Apple stock mouse works just fine for design work... I do a lot of masking in Photoshop as well, and I never have an instance where I feel "hamstringed" by the device. No sore hands. No carpal tunnel. No fingers falling off. If you like the Kensington, well then whoop-a-de-doo, but don't say the Apple design is ineffective for work because there's plenty of us out here who do just fine with it.

Once you've done BT Mouse, there's no going back to 'the tailed' mouse. Bringing both out together would have given me something to get excited about. Battery life? Re-chargeable batteries using usb cradle to charge. Luv it.

As a child of the "fifties" I just couldn't get past the name. So. Doing what I do with QuickTime, I've made my own "parody".
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/mighty_mouse/
S&G;, for those that know. Fun for others.

Just be aware that the side buttons aren't totally programable. You can't set them to move forwards and backwards in safari, for example.

oh and the side buttons are hard to squeeze - they need a bit more pressure than you would imagine

BLUETOOTH.... and can I get one in brushed aluminum, please? Steve? Please?

Now I'm all for the new Mighty Mouse - I'm totally psyked cos we're gonna get a guinea pig at work to use one. I may actually buy a mouse from Apple if it's decent.

But what NewType mentions about the KISS thing with mouse - how people get confused over whether to push left or right mouse button on traditional 2 button mouse. Imagine how people will get confused over THIS mouse!

"Please right click on this link sir"
"Err right click?"
"Click on the right side of the mouse"
"Err like push it on the side?"
"No click, but with your middle finger"
"OK click w/my middle finger where I used to click w/my index finger?"

and so on and so forth... I don't think it'll make it easier for people who just don't get it in the first place

..but then nothing ever wil...

Thelonius wrote:

It's a mouse.

IT'S A FRICKING MOUSE!

Yeesh.



Correction: It's a *mighty* mouse.

The right click is kind of horrible to use. I couldn't even get it to work sometimes. It's just unresponsive. And diagonal scrolling doesn't work very well.
It's not bad by any means, but I'm sure they could have designed one that had two physical buttons that still looked good. They should just give in on this one.

Crazy-yak, do you have webbed fingers or something because it feel fine for me!

I tried one of these out at the local Apple Store. It's fine, I suppose, but it has a GIANT problem... about 44" of cord connecting it to the machine.

Make a Wireless Mighty Mouse, and then we'll talk. Until then, I'm sticking with my Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer.