Apple releases "Mighty Mouse"

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Finally!

The multibuttoned Mighty Mouse looks much like its predecessor single button mouse, with the addition of two side buttons and a scroll button. The major difference with this mouse over all others, is that it scrolls in all directions.

Have a look see:

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah, Apple praises itself again for something that is available since a long time now...
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well... I for one welcome our new mouse overlord.... erm.. wait.

No clicky-clicky? My ADD will get bored very fast, I love clicks.

Second, isn't about frickin time they came into the 1990s?
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Drunkenbatman had an really interesting write up on this:Link

DB is a little odd but if you want an irreverent view of Apple, open source, or cows . . .

I would say that anything would be better than the hockey puck I have . . . but not at that price point.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i am not impressed....seems they are !! dunno why though...
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The price is what will keep me from running right out and bying one. But I will get one eventually.

I'm a middle finger scroller. I'm most curious as to whether the scroll ball on the Mighty Mouse will be as easy to use as a unidirectional wheel. If the scroll ball is anything like what is put out on laptops, I won't be impressed. I'll definately take a trip to the Apple store to try one out before I buy.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/CA/EN,CRID=2135,CONTENTID=9043

8 programmable buttons, universal scroll, wireless with recharging dock, comfortable design, and a laser!

vs

4 touch/pressure sensative thingys, universal ball bearing, tangleywiredness, bar of soap. (Yeah, thats revolutionary.)

Round One, FIGHT!

Now not to just bring up something like logitech but look at most any mouse with a wheel. Now a scroll wheel since it has a nice comfortable size allows you to scroll in say a web page, either a few lines, or a few pages without ever lifting your finger. A rubber BB is too small to give you that kind of control. Both let you scroll up and down, and left and right, but I already have to ask the question, who has ever really needed to scroll in any other way than up and down?

And now we have 2 touch sensative and 2 pressure sensative buttons. The thumb one would be just fine, no doubts there, but the one you need to hit with your pinky?! Fail. But a touch sensative? How many people rest their fingers on the mouse while moving it around, not with this mouse, if you lay your hand on this one like any normal mouse, you left/right click and hold, so you'd have to keep your fingers in the air while basically moving this with your palm and with the less than comfortable soap bar design I'd estimate a good 3 minute session before that and the little nub BB make your hand cramp up. Oh and it still has a wire, and if they make a wireless, it'll have a 30-50 dollar markup. At least the thing is optical eh?

But something like logitech's (and many others) has 8 infinetly programable buttons, a comfortable wheel that lets you scroll a little or a lot with ease of movement which also works as a button when pressed, all the buttons are easy and comfortable to hit without any misclicks, the design of the mouse fits perfectly with your hand, it has no messy wire's, has a NiMH rechargable dock cradle, and in this particular mouse, it has a friggin laser! which they claim is so accurate it picks up microscopic detail to allow it to even work on reflective surfaces that would make an optical do nothing but bounce your cursor all over the screen.

Sure this thing is "better" than the 1 button glassy pretty mouse, and anything is better than those hocky pucks. But I doubt anyone besides the zombie apple enthusiasts that have more than 1 iPod and think widgets are an apple invention; would ever say this mouse is really buying, or using.

Mighty Mouse is probably rolling over and crying in his cartoon grave, that his good name is being tarnished by apple's 50 dollar rubber BB soap bar.

Surely anyone would say this is better than the 1 button mouse, hell I'll say it, "Attention, this mouse is better than the 1 button fossil they've been pretending to be current technology." But the question to using a mouse on an Mac is apparently pretty much the same as it has always been.

Get a real one.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks great but it's too expensive. I love the scroll ball and the side buttons, but not sure about the pressure sensative left and right thingys. Regular clicking buttons are just as great.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think this mouse is aimed largly at PC users, and with the switch to Intel next year along with an new update to the OS (if they can improve on an already perfect operating system) it will be very useful in tempting PC users over to Mac OSX.

As a long diehard PC users i used to come out with the same arguments relating to the mouse, i hated OS9 with a passion and i didd't expect Mac to really be around now. Bt things change, and since working in design i have stated to use the mouse less and less, relying on Hot-keys and actions within Adobe and the OSX tiger operating system itself.

The thing i missed the most was the scroll wheal, and its a great additin to the Mac mouse, i will still wait a little longer for the wireless version, as i'm in no hurry to update.

BTW i have moved from PC to Mac and i now have a new iMac, my advice is get one, it is way better the its hype, and has endless possibilites, and if you can wait untill next year it will be cheaper! I just love the way that everything synchronizes together, it really helps you to organize.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah, Apple praises itself again for something that is available since a long time now...


Apple fans are already claiming they invented multi button mice
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
4 touch/pressure sensative thingys, universal ball bearing, tangleywiredness, bar of soap


No rope-a-dope...
My Logitech doesn't have any universal ball bearing or tangleywiredness & it was <$30 five years ago. It has everything it needs (& I think the new ones are dock-rechargable-- I use a couple of NiCd's in mine.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Woop-- Developer horizon- I just read the rest of your post-guess I'll just second what you said...
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Listen to horizon .....
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I wondered that they didn't call it "Almighty mouse" though.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Waiting a long time for that... now it's available! Great, I must have this!
Seems to be very useful! I love Apple!
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I rest my case
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hit the nail on the head, horizon....had a programmable Logitec for a couple of years now and it has more features than this new Apple one.


"I hate those meeces to pieces"....yep, Jinx was a PC enthusiast, too....perhaps he and Mighty Mouse'll get together and agree on this one
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm surprised I'm reading about this now as the news that Apple has a 2 button mouse has been around for a long time.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ha, I have one of those Mx1000 mouses Horizon...and while it did cost $80, it's pretty cool. It's really more of a gaming mouse though (that laser is UBER-responsive, like you said) but the 3 side buttons are very handy for web-browsing, faster than the keyboard shortcuts anyway, but it doesen't do it ALL (however, it comes pretty close ). Lastly I like the fact that I only need to charge it once every 2-3 weeks (and I'm a heavy user).
Now, this "new" apple mouse is a step up I'll say, (it has its advantages once you get used to it), but the fact that it's corded/cost will drive me away for awhile. I mean, I'm using a mouse from a year ago, and yet it's still eons ahead of what Apple has now. Haha, I love how entertaining this could be, will we be seeing any "My mouse can beat up your mouse" fights in the future?
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Seems strange....Apple Mac OSes... named after felines...their new mouse....Mighty Mouse....cat and mouse fights, more like it
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And on Vista, we'll have a good view of it
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh, I had the honor of seeing a little preview today . My girlfriend bought one for her iMac today, and while her old/reliable mouse for it was fine, the "new" "Mighy Mouse" proved to be VERY unresponsive, she had to literally smash the pad with her hand to get to move as she wanted, and clicking? Oh no, today she believes she has been introduced to HAL's reincarnation, as once she clicked the mouse the first time, it stayed down, and was therefore only able to be used once for its maiden test. Ah, that mouse sure wasn't so mighty after it received one of her signature kiboshings....so way to go Apple, way to make such an "easy" and "innovative" mini punching-bag, my only regret is that the popcorn was not ready to watch the spectacle, but we shan't make that mistake again shall we ?
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Logitech, my preciousssssss.
Works even on Os systems and side scrolling is buggy if you are into games.
Just like the Jesus in the ending of the movie Orgasmo said " "
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was wondering if the scroll button was more like how the iPod selector works, that would be something worth condsidering, I think. Oh yeah, and I use the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 at work (wired) and the wireless version at home, love them both. Wireless Duracell batteries have lasted for about 4 or 5 months now, and I use the machine a lot.