Blogger, Author amateur photographer currently living in Australia. Love culture, movies, alternat...
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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.
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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Jun 20th, 2008
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