“We suspect that for many of you, the simple fact that Apple’s Mighty Mouse has shed its cord will be reason enough to buy it. You won’t care that your mouse now requires batteries, nor will you balk at its $69 price tag. And you probably won’t find the new laser sensor that big a selling point. Macs call out for wireless peripherals, however, for reasons of both form and function. Plus, who wants to carry a corded mouse around when you’re on the road with a laptop? We wish Apple had gone the extra mile and fixed some issues that linger from the original corded model, but our gripes don’t amount to enough to prevent a recommendation. It doesn’t revolutionize mice, but simply because it’s now wireless, Apple’s Mighty Mouse will be hard for Mac users to resist,” Rich Brown reports for CNET.
Full review here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple debuts Wireless Mighty Mouse – July 25, 2006
Report: Apple to debut wireless Bluetooth Mighty Mouse soon – July 24, 2006
Apple’s Mighty Mouse Scroll Ball clogs too easily – July 18, 2006
ZDNet UK review gives Apple Mighty Mouse 6.6 out of 10 – August 31, 2005
Dr. Mac: ‘Mighty Mouse is the finest mouse Apple has ever produced’ – August 09, 2005
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
Mighty Mouse wouldn’t seem so less-than-stellar if it werent’ for the especially for $70. I could get a better mouse product for less than that price.
Cyberguys link is not really a wireless mouse, it just a drawing tablet sans pen and software. Still got the wire.
Plus, why does Apple dump the one button mouse when they bring out the Mighty Mouse? First they drop corded one and now the Bluetooth mouse. What if I don’t want a Mighty Tit-Mouse?
Man, you guys whose mice are “jumping all over” and “Don’t work right” have GOT to be retarded. I turned on my BT Mighty Mouse, and it works like a charm on my MacBook Pro. The thing works flawlessly. In three days, there has not been so much as a tiny delay. How can you guys actually screw up something so simple?
I dont care for wireless mice. I have used them in the past and am not impressed by them. I would like to see a minimouse made by apple for my laptop. I want a cord. Wireless kinda sucks anyway with the additional lag and the need to replace batteries. Kensington rocks imo. Apple please make me a minimouse! Pretty please?
>AppleTerror wrote* Man, you guys whose mice are “jumping all over” and “Don’t work right” have GOT to be retarded…it works like a charm on my MacBook Pro.
So because you’re willing to overpay and it works like a charm on YOUR MacBook Pro, it should work for everyone else otherwise they are retarded?
That’s some weak logic!
Read the posts and take notice of the specific complaints people have… after that, if you can’t formulate anything useful to add – just don’t post.
G’day!
Mac Realist, I agree the MM is not perfect, but your critique is retarded:
>1) Excellent software to program all aspects of the mouse.
This is customizable in Keyboard and Mouse preferences. You can customize each button.
>2) Good control over left/right/center buttons without having to clean the mouse every week.
Control? It’s very customizable.
>3) Custom weights to make the mouse fit exactly in your hand.
As though weights will change its shape?
>4) Left and right hand models (So much for Apple’s brain-dead design team)
It works both with left and right handers. It’s symmetrical, bonehead.
>5) Rechargable option (Guess Apple forgot that too)
Alright, and a dock, and a case and and and…
The Might Moouse is a great idea. Yes there are problems. The ‘clit’ gets clogged, and it’s hard to clean. Plus the touch buttons require getting used to. But you managed to mention everything that is NOT a problem with the mouse.
“Man, you guys whose mice are “jumping all over” and “Don’t work right” have GOT to be retarded. I turned on my BT Mighty Mouse, and it works like a charm on my MacBook Pro. The thing works flawlessly. In three days, there has not been so much as a tiny delay. How can you guys actually screw up something so simple?”
That does happen to some people but it is usually the surface they are on that is cause the mouse to ‘miss-track.’ Put it on something that has solid colors, if it still happens take it back. Also MM does seem to not track well in Cinema 4D, I do have problems in that app with tracking.
Also I agree with Rich right click does suck.
> That little tit scroll ball is like trying to tickle a womans clit.
You have a problem with that? Personally, I like all the practice I can get…
I like the wired Mighty Mouse. My G5 came with one. I don’t see the big advantage of having a wireless mouse and keyboard on a desktop computer.
Those blue Energizer E2s are great, not only because they last longer, but also because they are lighter than standard batteries (including the rechargeable ones). In the old single-button wireless Apple Mouse, it feels really heavy with two regular batteries inside. However, a pair of E2s given the feel of a normal wired mouse. But I noticed in the wireless MM info page that it can run on one OR two AA batteries. So a pair of E2’s will probably run for a month or longer. Otherwise, a single rechargeable AA will give it the right feel (weight) and need to be swapped out about once per week.