“Apple is touting its new Mighty Mouse as the first multibutton mouse that retains the simplicity of one with a single button. I got mine the day they were introduced and have been using it exclusively. I have to agree,” Bob “Dr. Mac” Levitus writes for The Houston Chronicle. “All four ‘buttons’ are easily programmed to click, Control-click (to display the contextual menu), provide access to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger features or to launch any program.”
“What I like best about Mighty Mouse is its scroll ball, which is sort of like a traditional scroll wheel, but better. It’s a tiny orb that offers vertical, horizontal and diagonal scrolling with a flick of your finger,” Levitus writes. “It’s fast, precise, easy to get used to and by far the best scrolling mechanism I’ve tried. It’s superb for working with large documents in programs such as Adobe Photoshop and iPhoto.”
Levitus has a couple of “minor quibbles,” but writes that, “Mighty Mouse is the finest mouse Apple has ever produced. Spend a few hours with one and you’ll never want to use an archaic single-button mouse again.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’ve been using the Mighty Mouse since the day it was introduced and, besides having to use MouseZoom to increase the tracking speed beyond what Apple’s Mouse System Pref allows, the only other thing we wish is that the mouse had a “pebbled” surface to reduce its slipperiness that increases with use. At least we’ll always have clean mice; we’re finding that we have to Windex them almost daily.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
The Boston Globe: first shipments of Apple’s Mighty Mouse ‘sold out almost immediately’ – August 08, 2005
Mercury News: Apple’s Mighty Mouse looks ‘like the world’s most carefully crafted bar of soap’ – August 08, 2005
AnandTech: Apple’s Mighty Mouse ‘isn’t exactly perfect’ – August 05, 2005
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
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What a leap for the author to declare the far-and-away-more-functional multi-button roll-wheel mouse superior to the archaic single squeeker Apple has tried to force us to ‘love’ for nearly two decades.
Now, when will Apple do away with shipping single button mice completely (and give us a blue tooth version)?
MDN: name
Are we going to have another ‘chick fight’ about this mouse article too. I think MDN just likes to watch.
I smell a great April’s Fool joke: Grease down your co-worker’s mouse with Crisco.
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I got one, and returned it. I am addicted to the forward and back buttons on my mouse and couldnt live without them. Apple needs to make an ergonomic version of the mighty mouse, with forward and back buttons and ill be all set to switch.
A ‘chick fight’ sounds like a good idea (tugging at PeaPod’s blouse) I want a bluetooth, blah, blah, blah…
What’s up with all the Windex? Has MouseZoom got you moving so fast you’ve got bugs splattered all over Mighty Mouse’s windshield?!
I grease my mouse with crisco all the time.
PeaPod said:
“Are we going to have another ‘chick fight’ about this mouse article too. I think MDN just likes to watch.”
I’ve booked tickets
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…not.
Its fine if some people like this thing, but the world did NOT need yet another kind of mouse to choose from.
The kinds already out there were just fine.
“Its fine if some people like this thing, but the world did NOT need yet another kind of mouse to choose from.
The kinds already out there were just fine.”
And you can still choose between them. It’s not like Apple puts a gun to your head and forces you to use their mouse.
I’ve used it. it’s junk.
Regardless of my opinion of this mouse, it’s going to please some of the people. Even the puck pleased some of the people. So some people are quite rightly going to love it even though it pretty much sucks.
I do think the comment that “ I am addicted to the forward and back buttons on my mouse and couldnt live without them. Apple needs to make an ergonomic version of the mighty mouse, with forward and back buttons and ill be all set to switch, does strike me as odd. Basically Emax wants exactly the same mouse as he/she already has, but made by Apple. Well, newsflash!: You already have a mouse you like, you didn’t even need to try the mighty mouse!
I think actually what’s needed is for Apple to back off on the mouse design, because they’re really not very good at it. They should get Logitech and a few others to make a clean looking white version of their mice. A Mac friendly version, so that people can pick the right mouse and have it look OK on their desk, rather than have something that looks out of place or something that looks great but is compromised (in terms of personal ergonomics and/or functions).
Crazy but true.
Anyway, you can’t just say use Logitech… not until Apple lets you SUBTRACT the mouse from your iMac and PowerMac order.
MDN, please read this at once!!
http://www.geocities.com/future_chemist/windex.html
The best mouse Apple’s ever made.
Boy, that’s saying a lot, NOT.
I’ll hold out until the Bluetooth version comes out. Frankly, I’m surprised Apple didn’t do a concurrent BT release, considering how it’s most of it’s other input products are Bluetooth.
Good luck cleaning those rollers when they get gunked up.
You can’t open the mouse to clean without breaking it.
Why does Apple have to change their legacy for these…these…. complainers?? I think the only thing that is useful ont he MM is the scroll ball. I love the 1 button feature and don’t think Apple should conform to the people’s opinion on the subject just because of the whole contextual menus crap.
You’re Mac users! You KNOW how to open a contextual menu and right click (and if you don’t its control+click). And if you dont like that then get a 2 button mouse! Don’t whine to Apple about it. If you really want an Apple 2 mutton mouse, then stick an Apple sticker on the 3rd party mouse you buy. Don’t ruin simple things.
Plus Logitech would make a mouse thats an ergonomical trainwreck-as they seem to do with their mice.
Long live the 1 button!
The Mighty Mouse is a disappointment. The little scroll ball at the top is not something you can use in an ergonomic way. Flunk. The side buttons are not the kind that you can use in an ergonomic way. Flunk. The size of the mouse is appropriate for a one button mouse you can click anywhere, but not for a mouse with “buttons” and a scroll device.
Try again, Apple. Sometimes we all strike out.
How about getting rid of the mechanical ball (prone to get dirty and dusty and to start skipping like a traditional ball mouse, anyway). Instead, release the “Pro Mouse II.” It would look EXACTLY like the current Pro Mouse, with the “sensors” to differentiate left and right clicking. And, the top of the mouse would also react like a trackpad.
Just an idea. Feel free to use it! Please!!
>Title: Dr. Mac: ‘Mighty Mouse is the finest mouse Apple has ever produced’
That’s not much of a compliment. I’ve found the Apple Mouse not to my liking over the years.
>Title: Dr. Mac: ‘Mighty Mouse is the finest mouse Apple has ever produced’
That’s not much of a compliment. I’ve found the Apple Mouse not to my liking over the years.
>Title: Dr. Mac: ‘Mighty Mouse is the finest mouse Apple has ever produced’
That’s not much of a compliment. I’ve found the Apple Mouse not to my liking over the years.
>A][ wrote: Why does Apple have to change their legacy for these…these…. complainers??
So let’s get this straight, you’re complaining that Apple tried to make a two-button mouse, because of all the complaints from their customers?
Your complaint is that they made one? You can still get the less-useful one-button mouse Apple clung on to all these years.
Or did you just want to join in the fun and complain yourself?
>A][ wrote: Why does Apple have to change their legacy for these…these…. complainers??
So let’s get this straight, you’re complaining that Apple tried to make a two-button mouse, because of all the complaints from their customers?
Your complaint is that they made one? You can still get the less-useful one-button mouse Apple clung on to all these years.
Or did you just want to join in the fun and complain yourself?