Apple is famous for its One Click Mouse "idea." For years, Mac-Heads like me had to make do with one solid mouse that clicks downwards. Wanna Right Click? Press Control first. This is fine once you get used to it.
With the Mighty Mouse, Apple is basically admitting it got it wrong. You DO ... Read review
Apple Mighty Mouse is intuitive easy to use and designed toaccommodate whether you ... more
want to use it as a single or multi-buttonmouse. It features the scroll ball an innovative technology thatlets you scroll in all directions with ease--verticallyho...
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Apple Mighty Mouse is intuitive easy to use and designed toaccommodate whether you ... more
want to use it as a single or multi-buttonmouse. It features the scroll ball an innovative technology thatlets you scroll in all directions with ease--verticallyho...
Postage & Packaging: Free! Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Its the wired mouse that reinvents the wheel - the scroll wheel. The Apple Mouse features ... more
the amazing Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, literally without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the...
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Advantages: Looks nice, good scroll feature Disadvantages: Right click misfires, pressure pads go off randomly, makes Big ANGER-FUELLED DENT IN WALL
Apple is famous for its One Click Mouse "idea." For years, Mac-Heads like me had to make do with one solid mouse that clicks downwards. Wanna Right Click? Press Control first. This is fine once you get used to it.
With the Mighty Mouse, Apple is basically admitting it got it wrong. You DO in fact need a right click, Apple says. But there's a big problem.
This (still all solid) mouse is now able to be set up ... ...
But, since there is only a solid shell, no buttons, trying to actually press the right area is a guessing game. A guessing game I'm losing. A lot.
Now I spend half my time trying to right click, only to find I've ACTUALLY left clicked, and selected a link on the internet instead of getting a right click menu up, and now I've lost my Ciao review because I navigated away from the page by accident. ARGH! What's the solution? Staring ... more
Apple is famous for its One Click Mouse "idea." For years, Mac-Heads like me had to make do with one solid mouse that clicks downwards. Wanna Right Click? Press Control first. This is fine once you get used to it.
With the Mighty Mouse, Apple is basically admitting it got it wrong. You DO in fact need a right click, Apple says. But there's a big problem.
This (still all solid) mouse is now able to be set up to right click as well. Oooh! Great...you'd think.
But, since there is only a solid shell, no buttons, trying to actually press the right area is a guessing game. A guessing game I'm losing. A lot.
Now I spend half my time trying to right click, only to find I've ACTUALLY left clicked, and selected a link on the internet instead of getting a right click menu up, and now I've lost my Ciao review because I navigated away from the page by accident. ARGH! What's the solution? Staring at my mouse the way a bad driver stares at the dashboard instead of the road? I don't think so.
Even worse than the "Not Quite Right Click" issue are the side-buttons that sit roughly where the back wheels would be if the Mighty Mouse were a small toy car. Which I wish it were. Toy cars rock; these 'pads' on the other hand, blow, if you see what I mean. They sense force and then do something - usually reveal all the windows in your display, or hide all your windows (depending on what you've set them up for.)
The problem is these pads are too mercurial. Because they don't quite "click", there's no gaugable critical mass of force the user can get used to in order not to set them off, which means they activate in the middle of something you're doing mostly by accident. The solution? Turn them off. But how is THAT a 'good' facet? Opting out is admitting that piece of the product is rubbish.
One good element of the mouse is the miniature pea-sized rotating grey sphere. This basically allows you navigate large web-pages or documents without having to use the scroll bars. Great feature. Here's an idea. Put it on a good mouse.
To cap it all, the price is absurd even by Mac standards. I don't mind paying over the odds, because more often than not Macs crash less, conflict less and have made computing a joy for me again. But GBP40 for a mouse is like a kick in the face by a very arrogant person and still having to shake their hand afterwards whilst smiling AND snging the difficult second verse of the national anthem; painful, insulting, and just plain weird.
I'm glad they make a wireless version tough.
That way it's easier to THROW IT OUT OF A CLOSED WINDOW!
Advantages: Its MACool Disadvantages: Its not cordless
...mouse. And then hey presto Apple announces a two-button mouse with a scroll wheel. No doubt under pressure from the legions of apple "halo effect" convertees, who having said goodbye to windows and hello OSX, felt they still needed the comfort of a two button mouse.
So what is it like?
First of all I have to say is it is good to have two buttons again! Pulling up the menus of functions using the right click is useful. I had got used to not having ... ...shiny white plastic with small apple logo and the tiny small scroll ball (button).
The clever bits. The mouse does not have two separate distinguishable buttons on the top. Your two fingers will sit either side of the scroll ball. Push with the left finger and you click as normal. Click the right finger and it pulls up the menus. So the mouse can tell which side you are pressing rather than have definite individual keys. Does the description sound ...
thedorrells 13.10.2005
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Advantages: 360° track ball Disadvantages: Very expensive!
...it, all the mouse branded Apple in the years slid rigorously were fortified of an only enormous key and, in order to approach the classic menu to which the windows users they associate with much nature to "skillful key" it was necessary the combination of the key control (ctrl) on the keyboard and the click of the only key of the mouse on hand. Effectively this taken of position, above all in the last decade where I use it of the key "more and more ... ...not useful a lot the Apple customers in moving in the aforesaid ones menu (even if with practical the combination "ctrl-click" it comes enough natural) to advantage of a design to the vanguard that proposes an only auto body without the presence of some cut for the keys (the key is practically all the advanced surface of the peripheral one). That is the reason becaus the Mighty Mouse is revolutionary, not only aligns with the others mouse more programmable ...
B_Dan9 09.02.2007
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Advantages: Lots of functionality - L/R click 360 scroll. Disadvantages: Painful to use. Too many little parts to have on such a small mouse.
...USB Optical Mouse £35 from Apple Store as of 5/5/07
20 times more sensitive to optical features than other optical mice.
TIny central scroll button allows 360 scrolling - up/down left/right and diagonal.
Touch-sensitive top shell - feels like older one-click Apple mice but by clicking the left part of the shell you get a left click, by clicking the right part of the shell you get a right click.
Force-sensing side buttons - you have two buttons ... ...had a suite of old Apple macs with the older Apple Pro mouse. These were nice - a big chunky piece of acrylic that really filled your hand. I never suffered any problems when using these. You could rest your hand down on them when you weren't using them and the way they use the whole top of the mouse as the button meant you weren't putting excess stress on one part of the hand. They didn't have the right click functionality of other mice but you ...
oblivionjapan 05.05.2007
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Advantages: Good looks. Scroll wheel is great in principle. Disadvantages: Difficult to clean. Side buttons badly executed.
For years Apple resisted introducing a two-button mouse claiming that they had not yet found a way to introduce a second button without compromising the looks of the device. Finally a few years ago touch-sensitive technology allowed Apple to modify it's existing mouse to include a second button. Dubbed the mighty mouse the device has two touch-sensitive areas that function as left and right mouse buttons as well as two programmable touch-sensitive ... ...compatible with Windows PCs and Apple Macs.
=Design=
The design is certainly stylish and in keeping with Apples other glossy white offerings such as the iPod and iMac. Although having said this, much of Apple's hardware designs now incorporate brushed aluminium and black glass which leaves this device looking a bit out of place. I guess the mighty mouse will eventually receive a makeover to conform with other products. This is a small nitpick though ...
Itstar77 29.07.2008
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Advantages: Works with both windows and mac os x. no longer only one button Disadvantages: cant remove track ball to clean it
The Apple Mighty Mouse is great mouse. Those that have been using the one button mouse and have longged for a right button will love this mouse. By looking at it it appears to be the same as the standard one mouse button with the exception of the track ball (not wheel). There is still only one physical button but the left and right hand side of the mouse is touch sensitve so it detects if the right side was clicked. However some mac users want to ... ...stopped scrolling up but the apple store was very happy to replace it and I had had it for a good 6 months.) Some sites suggest using a damp cloth and wipe the ball with that to bring the dirt out, doing this regualry will prevent it from becomming to dirty like mine did.
The two side buttons are pressure sensitive. These only work for mac users, windows users do not get the added pressure sensitve side buttons. Although its 2 buttons, its actually ...
oggy4kelly 20.04.2006
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Advantages: 360 scroll function, compact, ease of use Disadvantages: hassle installation, bit pricey
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Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programmability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze. In the beginning, there was one button. Then there were two. Then there were clickable scroll wheels and programmable toggles and solid-state slides. But nobody made a mouse as easy to use as your Mac. Until now. Mighty Mouse combines the capability of a multibutton mouse with Apple's signature top-shell design for the best of both form and function. Use it any way you work: Stick with single-button simplicity or click with multibutton efficiency. Time is round. Space is curved. Why should your mouse be linear? Plenty of applications require you to do more than scroll up and down. Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability, thanks to its Scroll Ball, perfectly positioned to roll smoothly under just one finger. Explore the farthest reaches of your files - pan images in iPhoto, view timelines in iMovie HD and Final Cut Pro, traverse bars in GarageBand and Logic Pro - with one hand tied behind your back (or holding a cup of coffee or typing). Mighty Mouse gives you room to roam. Touch-sensitive technology under Mighty Mouse's seamless top shell detect where you're clicking, transforming your sleek, one-button mouse into a two-button wonder. But the innovation doesn't end there. Apple engineers added force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse that let you squeeze the mouse between your thumb and finger, activating Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard, Expose or a whole host of other, customizable features - instantly. Unlike any other mouse on the market, Mighty Mouse was designed specifically to work with Mac OS X Tiger. Up-to-the minute information on Dashboard is only a click away. Viewing, hiding and selecting your windows via Exposé is just as simple. And because Mac OS X Tiger makes Mighty Mouse programmable, you choose where every click takes you.
