“Apple created a truly interesting product with the Mighty Mouse; essentially, they’ve created a one button mouse that is a bit more flexible than their prior one-button offerings, but definitely not a mouse that is catered to the needs of those who depend on multi-button mice,” Anand Lal Shimpi writes for AnandTech.
“The scroll ball is nice, although I’d like to see some control over the number of lines per scroll click. The side buttons are horrible and it would be nice to make them a little easier/more convenient to use, but then again, that may conflict with Apple’s desire to make the Mighty Mouse still look and work like a single-button mouse,” Lal Shimpi writes. “For the single button mouse user, the Mighty Mouse brings scrolling functionality to Apple’s mice, which is much needed. And for all intents and purposes, the default configuration of the Mighty Mouse acts and behaves just like a single button mouse with a scroll wheel. In the sense of Apple’s ability to bring scrolling functionality to their single-button mouse users, the Mighty Mouse works. But if you are a user who needs to have and frequently uses that second mouse button, the Mighty Mouse isn’t exactly perfect.”
Full review here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
NY Times’ Pogue: ‘I certainly prefer the Mighty Mouse’ to Apple’s standard one-button mouse – August 04, 2005
Apple’s Mighty Mouse dissected (with image) – August 04, 2005
The Motley Fool: ‘Mighty Mouse may be the next step in Apple’s quiet crusade to lure Windows users’ – August 04, 2005
Mossberg pans Apple Mighty Mouse, says Microsoft’s latest mouse is better – August 04, 2005
Review: Apple’s Mighty Mouse – Third-party USB mouse makers should be very afraid – August 03, 2005
Apple introduces multi-button ‘Mighty Mouse’ with ‘Scroll Ball’ for Mac and Windows – August 02, 2005
Apple’s new ‘Mighty Mouse’ provides audio feedback for clicking and scrolling – August 02, 2005
Apple’s mythical two-button mouse – March 19, 2005
RUMOR: Apple may soon debut two-button mouse – March 15, 2005
Apple’s Pro Mouse is truly a joy to use… for about five minutes – May 29, 2004
The time has come for Apple to ship a two-button scroll mouse standard – June 09, 2003
Should Apple reconsider the one-button mouse? – October 23, 2002
“Small Balls and Touchy Sensors”
Sounds a lot like my first boyfriend.
Some fond memories, eh PeaPod ?
It’s a mouse it looks nice but the diagonal scrolling is terrible along with the side buttons being in an awkward position. Kensington and Logitech both make better mice with better more programable software. Logitech’s wireless laser has side scrolling. However it is unique in left and right clicking.
I played around with a Mighty Mouse today at an Apple Store. It is a very nice mouse but by no means perfect. The side scrolling is very poor, the side buttons are tough to depress, and it’s not wireless. I’ll wait until His Steveness comes out with Mighty Mouse 2 (with the physical bugs worked out and wireless).
Id say that “Small Balls” would be the least of your problems PeaPod
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I have to say that I am currently very happy at work useing Apple’s one button mouse. Since I own a PC as well I a pretty used to a typical PC mouse. It sounds like the mouse luch like any other device that Ive’s team comes up with will be open to design scrutiny from the wider community out there.
ROTFLMASSOFF!!!!
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PeaPod!
Steveness comes out with Mighty Mouse 2 (with the physical bugs worked out and wireless).
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well.. to most people.. a wireless mouse is useless
“Small Balls and Touchy Sensors”
Sounds a lot like my first boyfriend.
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you stole that line from Anchorman
The one-button mouse idea was conceived back in the 50s. Now 50 years later, Apple has to dumb-down it’s latest mouse iteration to satisfy the stubborn, obsolete, one-button idiots who don’t have the sense to find out why over 90% of computer users are thriving with multiple buttons. It’s obstinence, plain and simple. I’m personally ticked the one-buttoners have to ruin it for the rest of us who have longed for 21st century technology on par with Windows puters. Thanks for nothing one-buttoners. You are hopeless.
“Small Balls and Touchy Sensors”
Sounds a lot like my first boyfriend.
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you stole that line from Anchorman
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I think she stole that line from the AnandTech review of the Mighty mouse.
scroll ball! I thought it was a clitoris!
Thoughtful article, although many of us Mac users went to a multi-button mouse years ago. I probably wouldn’t have Anand’s problem as I tend to lift my index finger off the mouse with my Logitech. But of course I won’t know until I try one.
Joy of Tech called it a “titmouse” but I agree with dumpsterdiver its more of a “clitmouse” fun scrolling ahead!
Multi-buttoners don’t get it. Sure, right-clicking is great, but it requires learning and skill. Macs are supposed to be usable out of the box, not just for experienced computer users, but for everyone. That’s the reasoning behind the simple, one-button mouse — the only mouse a computer really needs. It’s the software developers hiding much-needed functionality in contextual menus (right-click menus) that are ruining it for computer users everywhere.
Apple did a great thing here. They delivered a mouse that is one-button, but can morph into a multiple buttons for those users that desire it and know how to use it. Simple, the Apple way.
i love to use my 5 button mouse but the multi button thing hurts tendons and wrist
a single button palm mouse is much healthier
using key combinations with single button mice is alot faster and more efficient
but if your other hand is busy…
I need a multi-button mouse when working in Windows, but to be honest, after being a Mac user since 1988, I still do not see much of a need for a multi-button mouse.
I guess there are some exceptions. I have a mapping program that is a Windows port over to Mac, and it could benefit from a multi-button mouse because of the way the interface was written.
But that is my point. Windows users need them because of deficiencies in their programs.
Nice for Mac users, but not needed nearly so badly.
They’re referring to the Apple MnM right?
Mightly “nipple” Mouse
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TheRegister made the nipple comparison. Calling it the MnM (and what that means) sounds cooler than calling it Mighty Mouse.
They’re referring to the Apple MnM right?
Mightly “nipple” Mouse
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TheRegister made the nipple comparison. Calling it the MnM (and what that means) sounds cooler than calling it Mighty Mouse.
They’re referring to the Apple MnM right?
Mightly “nipple” Mouse
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TheRegister made the nipple comparison. Calling it the MnM (and what that means) sounds cooler than calling it Mighty Mouse.
>kenhwrote: But that is my point. Windows users need them because of deficiencies in their programs.
Nah. You’ve just gotten used to getting by without the improvements that come standard on Windows boxes. You’re pouring sugar sprinkles on the crappy situation that is Apple not bundling a two-button mouse just to be different.
But don’t blame the Windows world for that. You can’t shovel the blame onto Windows for this crappy Apple policy.
“The reason Apple doesn’t bundle a two-button mouse is because Windows programs are deficient”.
That’s just outright ridiculous! I mean really?! Are you sticking with that story?!
>kenhwrote: But that is my point. Windows users need them because of deficiencies in their programs.
Nah. You’ve just gotten used to getting by without the improvements that come standard on Windows boxes. You’re pouring sugar sprinkles on the crappy situation that is Apple not bundling a two-button mouse just to be different.
But don’t blame the Windows world for that. You can’t shovel the blame onto Windows for this crappy Apple policy.
“The reason Apple doesn’t bundle a two-button mouse is because Windows programs are deficient”.
That’s just outright ridiculous! I mean really?! Are you sticking with that story?!
>kenhwrote: But that is my point. Windows users need them because of deficiencies in their programs.
Nah. You’ve just gotten used to getting by without the improvements that come standard on Windows boxes. You’re pouring sugar sprinkles on the crappy situation that is Apple not bundling a two-button mouse just to be different.
But don’t blame the Windows world for that. You can’t shovel the blame onto Windows for this crappy Apple policy.
“The reason Apple doesn’t bundle a two-button mouse is because Windows programs are deficient”.
That’s just outright ridiculous! I mean really?! Are you sticking with that story?!
coolfactor has it exactly right!
I help computer total-virgins (What’s a mouse?) several times every day. They have a hard time understanding all variations of clicking as well as “simply” keeping the mouse vertically oriented. Computers should always default to the lowest common denominator of users. If you want a 5-button mouse with scroll-wheel and racing stripes, then go buy one.
Your Heaven is someone else’s Hell.
And the best people are always aware of this in everything they do.
Small Balls and Touch Sensors are not the “Big Issue” PeaPod, it is whether your ex had the “know-how” to get the full value from your applications that counts
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As for the new Mighty Mouse, I think I prefer a Wacom tablet when the going gets tough like retouching in Photoshop.
I have said it before. It’s 2005 and we are talking about apple coming out with a two button mouse with the ability to scroll. This a joke right?
Work out the bugs? They should have been worked out in 2001.
Here is what you do. You make a nice two button mouse with vertical and horizontal scrolling. You make it so you people can afford it or include with your machines.
Lets be honest here. Apple has never made a decent mouse. The pro mouse blows for the money and do you remember that sweet imac puck?
Sorry apple, in this instance think different = being stupid.
@ mikulla
If you don’t know what you’re talking about, why don’t you go shop some mighty milk or something
You havent even closely understood the concept of User Initerface Apple is embracing.
Hold down the one button mouse for a second and the context menu pops up. Someone please tell my why a two button mouse is needed? I don’t seem to get it.
First MDN and everyone else rails against Mossberg for his not-so-high opinion of the Mighty Mouse, now AnandTech isn’t so fond of it – where’s MDN’s “how could you be such a moron?” take and everyone’s pavlovian response?
It’s nice to see folks can form an opinion that isn’t the automatic towing of the Apple line.
If this mouse is anything like the Apple Pro mouse, I’m sure I won’t be fond of it either. Frankly, I’ve never liked Apple’s mouses. They’re usually cool looking, but never quite work well in my hand. Give me a Microsoft mouse any day.
logitech mx510 mouse is great.
new mighty mouse ain´t.
steve chose form over function….again.
Put two of the mighty mouses together and look from the top and it reminds me of my girlfriends breasts – white, long and droopy with tiny round nipples….
No, I don´t think they were modeled after The Steve´s wife´s anatomy….
Yay, I’m hopeless! Who really cares if I use a one-button mouse just fine?? Mind your own God damn business and leave me the hell alone iMaki (you makey what? A jackass of yourself?
I guess mice are going to become like gaming system controllers. There are so many buttons and gadgets on the things, it’s ridiculous.
What’s the big deal using the control key to get a right-click? I do it all with the same (left) hand on my Powerbook, though I’m a righty.
New Marketing Name update:
Instead of calling it the Apple MnM (MightyNippleMouse)- that’s too long. It should be referred to as the Apple TitMouse.
Then you will have a “winner” in your hands.
“winner”… almost typed in something else.
The Apple TitMouse, Ladies and Gentlemen!
New Marketing Name update:
Instead of calling it the Apple MnM (MightyNippleMouse)- that’s too long. It should be referred to as the Apple TitMouse.
Then you will have a “winner” in your hands.
“winner”… almost typed in something else.
The Apple TitMouse, Ladies and Gentlemen!
New Marketing Name update:
Instead of calling it the Apple MnM (MightyNippleMouse)- that’s too long. It should be referred to as the Apple TitMouse.
Then you will have a “winner” in your hands.
“winner”… almost typed in something else.
The Apple TitMouse, Ladies and Gentlemen!
“using key combinations with single button mice is alot faster and more efficient”
I couldn’t agree more. Less mouse, more keyboard.
Definitive answer to this idiotic debate about a mouse…
If you only need one button, stick with the Apple mouse.
If you need more than one, buy ANY mouse from the plethora available. They ALL work with a Mac.
Okay – can we now focus on something else?
(this has always stuck me as the dumbest debate in the Apple vs Widoze arena)
> Chris: (this has always stuck me as the dumbest debate in the Apple vs Widoze arena)
No kidding! Apple trying to be different in everything, isn’t always a good thing. The one-button mouse thing is pretty dumb.
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But… the Apple TitMouse would’ve been better received if it were wireless!
> Chris: (this has always stuck me as the dumbest debate in the Apple vs Widoze arena)
No kidding! Apple trying to be different in everything, isn’t always a good thing. The one-button mouse thing is pretty dumb.
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But… the Apple TitMouse would’ve been better received if it were wireless!
> Chris: (this has always stuck me as the dumbest debate in the Apple vs Widoze arena)
No kidding! Apple trying to be different in everything, isn’t always a good thing. The one-button mouse thing is pretty dumb.
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But… the Apple TitMouse would’ve been better received if it were wireless!
>But… the Apple TitMouse would’ve been better received if it were wireless!>
And bra-less
“The one-button mouse thing is pretty dumb.”
You’ve certainly carved out your space on the “dumb” side of the debate.
“Hold down the one button mouse for a second and the context menu pops up. Someone please tell my why a two button mouse is needed?”
Well, if you use a program like Illustrator or any other app like has a lot of functionality available in contextual menus, first of all you can’t click and hold to get the menu, and second, even if you could, you’d be losing a second for every time you need the menu. If, like me, you work on 40 jobs a day with an average need of six contextual menus per job, that’s about 17.5 hours a year. If you charge a decent price for your time, that’s over 2,000 dollars a year lost.
Of course, most users don’t need this. Also, if you’re like me, you customize all that crap to work with keystrokes and/or write a bunch of AppleScripts (also activated by keystrokes) to do most of the work for you. But that wasn’t the question.
Just hold down the one button mouse then up comes the context menu. It’s simple.
“Well, if you use a program like Illustrator or any other app like has a lot of functionality available in contextual menus, first of all you can’t click and hold to get the menu, and second, even if you could, you’d be losing a second for every time you need the menu. If, like me, you work on 40 jobs a day with an average need of six contextual menus per job, that’s about 17.5 hours a year. If you charge a decent price for your time, that’s over 2,000 dollars a year lost.”
If seconds per day in clicks is your bottom line, then truly, you are The Machine’s favorite minion.
The only way your “40 jobs a day/six contextual menus per job/about 17.5 hours a year/over 2,000 dollars a year lost” approach could be of any value in the work force is if you can prove that you spend every single second on the clock working — that means no sipping coffee, no pausing for creative thinking, no non-work related communication with anyone from the time you clock in to the time you clock out, no restroom breaks, nothing.
A two button mouse makes you an extra $2000 a year? You ARE a tool!
Despite how hard Apple evangelists try to justify the one button mouse, multi-button mice will always be superior, and always has been ever since availability. It is not an excuse for “windows deficiency” as one zealot put it…the multibutton access is there for quick application functionality…..no gamer in their right mind would use a single button mouse for example. A button/click combo will never be as quick or efficient as a single right mouse click, plain and simple.
Two button mice are not very necessary for working on a Mac unless you use a particular program that can really benefit from multi-button mice. Control clicking is much easier. A two button mouse makes sense for clunky Windows.
no gamer in their right mind would use a computer for gaming
Superiority will never be in the design of the mouse. It will be with the user. Power users will get full command from a one button mouse as most of their input will come from the use of keyboard commands and keyboard-with-mouse combos. Many keyboard/mouse combos simply cannot be achieved with right clicks.
I agree completely with Trevor.
Why on the earth would you want to use a two-button on a Mac? It it anyway, against the Apple philosophy of interface design.
I am perfectly used to a one button mouse now.
I don’t understand all the “control clicking” is easier than a 2 button mouse comments. How can an operation that requires 2 hands be easier than one that requires only1?
Does it have a longer learning curve for people new to computing? Yes, but that is a different debate, we’re talking about which is “easier”.
I think that only amputees need a two buttons mice. But what about amputies which have only the left hand?
What was needed is the roll button you call the “nipple”.
“..no gamer in their right mind would use a computer for gaming…”
Is there space under that rock you’re living in for one more?
I think this one-button/two-button/right click challenge is more about contextual menus than ease-of-use mice, since the primary function of right clicking is to bring up contextual menus. (Games topic excluded.)
Contextual menus were brought to the Mac OS from Windows for those who got used to training wheels on their Windows OS and wanted the same training wheels on the Mac OS. It was an early part of the “Switcher” movement — one of Apple’s “me too” faux pas.
Before contextual menus, power users truly learned the Mac OS and their production applications— some moreso than others. For those who excelled, contextual menus simply weren’t necessary.
If a user at the ready combining keyboard with mouse evokes commands without the use of contextual menus, then the act of bringing yet another mouse button into the scene is just absurd. (Imagine using your accelerator pedal AND your steering-wheel mounted cruise controls simultaneously.)
If you find contextual menus to be truly useful, then that’s great. It means that Apple probably did a good thing “borrowing” from Microsoft. However, there’s no way that you’ll ever be able to justify telling a long-time power user that your contextual menus are easier or more efficient that his keyboard/mouse combos, because chances are, that long-time power user can run command circles around your multi-function mouse any day of the week. I’ve seen it happen time and time again.
clearly, there’s plenty of space between your ears for one more
The PC idiots love right clicking for one main function: right-click, save as… to save pr0n from the net onto their machine.
“I don’t understand all the “control clicking” is easier than a 2 button mouse comments. How can an operation that requires 2 hands be easier than one that requires only1?”
I guess you haven’t read the entire thread. Pulling up the context menu doesn’t require the control – click method. A much simpler option is available to Mac users.
And effwerd, it takes up to half a second to make the decision to use the right button and then select it so you aren’t saving as much time and money as you think.
Do people actually save porn to their computers? I just visit the sites when I spank it.
I invented contextual menus.
“And effwerd, it takes up to half a second to make the decision to use the right button and then select it”
Well, luckily I’m neither slow nor stupid, so it doesn’t take me a half a second to do that. Also, you assume the time it takes to make the decision to use a contextual menu is factored into my equation, which it wasn’t. I was only calculating a savings of the one second it would take for the contextual menu to activate from a click and hold as opposed to a simple click.
“The only way your “40 jobs a day/six contextual menus per job/about 17.5 hours a year/over 2,000 dollars a year lost” approach could be of any value in the work force is if you can prove that you spend every single second on the clock working”
Um, what? The 40 jobs a day is a daily production average independent of time. If it took me all day to do 40 jobs, I wouldn’t have time to do general maintenance, stock ordering, etc. Accessing each contextual menu with click and hold assumes 1 second of time. The cumulative total of this was what I listed. Your counter-point is flawed.
“If seconds per day in clicks is your bottom line, then truly, you are The Machine’s favorite minion.”
“A two button mouse makes you an extra $2000 a year? You ARE a tool!”
I don’t go to work to slack. I’m there to make money. I do as much as I can to make myself and my department as productive as possible with the least amount of cost. That’s a good thing. No matter what anti-capitalist leanings you’ve got, it doesn’t effect that I value my job and I value fair trade. I’ve got a work ethic, so what? I am compensated with a healthy salary that allows me to have the lifestyle I prefer. If I ever get an application from The Corporation, obviously I wouldn’t hire you, loaf. If you don’t have similar appreciation or have enough time and money to enjoy your life outside of work that’s just too bad for you.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Anybody who takes the time to get used to using a Trackball will no longer use a mouse. Trackballs Rule.
“Accessing each contextual menu with click and hold assumes 1 second of time.”
Good minion. Your contextual menu clicks are my dollars. Your time is my money. You are my favorite tool.
I guess you haven’t read the entire thread. Pulling up the context menu doesn’t require the control – click method. A much simpler option is available to Mac users.
What exactly is much simpler than right clicking to bring up a context menu? If given the choice I would rather navigate my mouse with one hand and pick my nose with the other and still bring up a context menu, rather than resist the call of the nostril for a keyboard click. It’s all about ease and usability, which is different for everybody, but the arguments in favor of single button mice are really, really thin.
As far as keyboard shortcuts go, most actions within a context menus from a right click have easy keyboard shortcuts visibly shown, so the option is there for windows users. The argument that Mac users utilize keyboard commands quicker, because of the lack of additional buttons, is utterly irrelevant.
“Good minion. Your contextual menu clicks are my dollars. Your time is my money. You are my favorite tool.”
Oh, I see, you’re trying to pretend to be The Corporation personified. How clever. I’m so impressed with your amazingly original take on the value of productivity enhancement and the brainwashing I must have undergone to feel the way I do about the exchange of labor for cash.
If only I could free myself from the horrible oppression of indoor plumbing and electricity and air conditioning and automobiles and freeways and the internet and grocery stores and toilet paper and washing machines and fluctuating interest rates and the global economy, my life would be so much better. Damn this bitter existence of having the free time to read and explore art and enjoy theater and professional sports and dancing and musical concerts and extensive travel and fine dining and imported alcohol and produce out of local season and European coffee and banal internet discussion boards! How embarrassing to suffer all these intolerable amenities of the modern capitalist economic model. I am such a tool of my corporate masters who guarantee my hours and vacation time and health care and stock options and pay which affords all of those despicable luxuries of which I so mindlessly partake.
If only I could ignore the economies of scale and waste my time, I would gain the precious respect of imbecilic socialist assholes like The Corporation. Oh, for shame.
“If only I could ignore the economies of scale and waste my time, I would gain the precious respect of imbecilic socialist assholes like The Corporation. Oh, for shame.”
There is no respect, my minion. There is only your labor and my gain. Carry on. AND DON’T WASTE ANY OF MY PRECIOUS SECONDS ON UNPRODUCTIVE CLICKS, TOOL!
“As far as keyboard shortcuts go, most actions within a context menus from a right click have easy keyboard shortcuts visibly shown, so the option is there for windows users. The argument that Mac users utilize keyboard commands quicker, because of the lack of additional buttons, is utterly irrelevant.”
Crouch,
Launch QuarkXPress. Open a new document. Draw a text box on the paste board. Type the word “Stretch” into that box. Right click to stretch that text box and the text within vertically or horizontally.
That’s what I thought.
I see the Apple TitMouse has reopened the one-button vs two-button debate.
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But yeah I agree with the one poster. The TitMouse would’ve been better received if it were wireless *and* braless. Now, *that* TitMouse would feel so much better in my hand that I’d have to get two just to complete the experience.
In the world of Duals (processors, cores, monitors, etc)… I’d say productivity/shmoductivity… give me a nice pair of TitMouses!
I see the Apple TitMouse has reopened the one-button vs two-button debate.
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But yeah I agree with the one poster. The TitMouse would’ve been better received if it were wireless *and* braless. Now, *that* TitMouse would feel so much better in my hand that I’d have to get two just to complete the experience.
In the world of Duals (processors, cores, monitors, etc)… I’d say productivity/shmoductivity… give me a nice pair of TitMouses!
I see the Apple TitMouse has reopened the one-button vs two-button debate.
…
But yeah I agree with the one poster. The TitMouse would’ve been better received if it were wireless *and* braless. Now, *that* TitMouse would feel so much better in my hand that I’d have to get two just to complete the experience.
In the world of Duals (processors, cores, monitors, etc)… I’d say productivity/shmoductivity… give me a nice pair of TitMouses!
Foisting ones personal preferences upon others and claiming such an objective choice as “superior” is the same fertile ground of dictators, tyrants and religious zealots; it is a hate-filled uncaring source that gives an orgasm for the originator at the cost of wide-spread agony for the masses.
“There is no respect, my minion. There is only your labor and my gain. Carry on. AND DON’T WASTE ANY OF MY PRECIOUS SECONDS ON UNPRODUCTIVE CLICKS, TOOL!”
Weak. Obviously, you can’t address the substance of my sarcasm so you only respond to the insult. It must be difficult for your tiny mind to realize that economies of scale help small businesses and individuals as much as they help large corporations. I mean, why think when you can just play at your awfully clever INCarnation based on a movie. These single-minded postbot comments of yours must thrill your juvenile pea brain to no end.
“Foisting ones personal preferences upon others and claiming such an objective choice as “superior” is the same fertile ground of dictators, tyrants and religious zealots; it is a hate-filled uncaring source that gives an orgasm for the originator at the cost of wide-spread agony for the masses.”
Oh! The agony! Debate is such a scourge upon humanity. To have such words posted on a discussion board is slowly… foisting… compliance… on me. Ugh! Must… use… one-button… mouse. Damn MDN posters and their tyranical opinions.
This whole discussion is so stupid. If you want a 1 button mouse then buy a 1 button mouse. If you want a 10 button mouse then buy one. Any mouse you buy will work on a mac. Who actually uses the mouse that came with there dell?
agreed with the previous poster…
stop bitching about “people who use a one-button mouse”…. jeez. what do you care?
if you like multi-button mice… go and buy one from a large variety available.
nobody is making you use the single-button or the mighty mouse… the alternatives are pretty cheap, so everybody can have exactly what they want.
Can a wireless mouse still be called a mouse?
MW: she. This debate seems to be obsessed with the female anatomy. (Should be more of it!)
“why do you even care” is right on the money. In fact, everyone should thank the one-button crowd. Apple’s UI design is, to a great degree, kept clean by this one simple fact. Making the one-button mouse the default is just good design sense. I sincerely hope Apple doesn’t change this.
Anyone who shuns a right click… try this:
GO into iTunes. (APPLE APPLICATION)
And try to Convert a File to AAC…
Okay, here we go… I don’t want to wade through the menus… so… oh wait… didn’t someone say if I hold the button long enough… it will bring up a contextual menu… like a mini-menu of all the useful things… or wait…. just Like the DOCK, right! All the commonly used icons are there… hmmm… holding for 5 seconds now on the song file and nothing coming up… that’s strange… i thought it always worked.
Well, I’ve seen lots of users use the keyboard and click… click (oh wait… is it control or option… i want to have the optional menu right? no… the alt menu… maybe it’s the apple symbol… yea…. Apple+click… darn my new userness… stupid one button mouse… I want a menu which works in the “context” of what I’m clicking on)
Okay… so I don’t want to screw anything up, I’ll look through the menu… and there will be a shortcut on the keyboard so that I save time, right?
Found it! Oh wait… there’s no shortcut key. hmmm… what a waste of time if I have to find it in the menu everytime.
those who hate contextual menus, and those who hate right click…
using two hands to do the same operation as one hand is a LOT more complicated than right click. You need to use both sides of your brain for it first of all, you probably have to take your eyes off the screen and hold ctrl and not move the mouse in the process…
the reality is… a one-button mouse has “defined” a mac as a mac… and most mac users don’t like the fact that they’re (OS X and Windows, Macs and PCs) are becoming more and more like each other. Convergence.
Witness things like:
USB 2 on hardware.
alt-tab
right-click
two-button mice (or at least compatibility with)
Just a few of the borrowed functionalities Apple has taken… and guess what… for the BETTER.
Stop being so friggin’ elitist… there are people who don’t like macs because the users they meet are pricks.
iMaki
You have a lot of pent up hostility, GET OVER IT!!!•
•This message produced with a single button mouse.
MY god man, how does he do it? One button on his mouse, he must posess super human abilities!!!
Come on people it’s not that big of a deal. Single button multi button…Whatever! People who preach about the extreme need for a multi button mouse are also the same who still use training wheels. I will buy this mouse for no other reason than to use the scroll wheel that to me is worth the upgrade price. Let the flames begin!!!!
The problem with this issue is that 2-botton mouse people insist that 2-button mice are defacto and 1-button mice are obsolete, and that the choice to use a 1-button mouse is stupid.
iMaki: “Apple has to dumb-down it’s latest mouse iteration to satisfy the stubborn, obsolete, one-button idiots who don’t have the sense to find out why over 90% of computer users are thriving with multiple buttons.”
Mac & PC Guy: “The one-button mouse thing is pretty dumb.”
The obvious: “Despite how hard Apple evangelists try to justify the one button mouse, multi-button mice will always be superior, and always has been ever since availability. “
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1-button mice folks don’t care what you use, they simply don’t want to be declared incapable because if their choice in command entry.
Well put…
I hate wireless mouses… everyone i ever had it had a mind of its own … go anywhere and everywhere I didnt wanna go on the screen… hope this mouse will be good I get it tomorrow… should of had it yesterday but wasnt home to receive it!
Be interesting with the right click… AGAIN… see how that goes LMAO