“It’s a question that Apple has obviously been pondering. In October, with characteristic suddenness, the company introduced a radically reimagined device called the Magic Mouse. Clearly, it’s intended to revivify the flagging fortunes of the species, and it just might do that — for a while,” Levy writes. “As one might expect in this Bluetooth age, the $69 mouse is wireless. It’s carefully designed, with a sumptuously cantilevered icy-white carapace over a brushed aluminum hull. And, like other recent Apple designs, the contour is unbroken by any raised button — the device itself is the button.”
“The real advance, however, is that the Magic Mouse is touch sensitive, so it supports the same sorts of gestures that a trackpad or iPhone does, including one I cannot live without: the finger slide that scrolls the page up, down, or sideways,” Levy writes. “If you hold down the Control key, a finger on the mouse can enlarge or shrink the screen image… Is the Magic Mouse the best mouse ever? Nothing superior comes to mind. If I had a Mac desktop, I would use it all the time. But since I have a laptop, I simply forget that the mouse is around; it’s almost as easy, and certainly less complicated, just to use the trackpad.”
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