“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
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.