“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
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