“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 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.
…
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?