Get a mighty mouse for just $9.99
August 5, 2005 6:23 PM
From Apple's site "Introducing the innovative mouse that reinvents the wheel — the scroll wheel. Mighty Mouse features the amazing Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, literally without lifting a finger." - They're charging $49.00 and it's selling like crazy.
It looks cool, but that "amazing Scroll Ball" is pretty small, and the "force-sensing side buttons" are getting negative reviews for bad placement and strange design (both buttons do the same thing). Compaq seems to have solved these problems, many many years ago:
Compaq Trackball Optical Mouse
$9.99
Ars Technicia took apart Apple's new mouse and found that, instead of real mouse buttons, it uses the sort of touch-sensitive plastic found in practially all microwaves today, so to give the user that satisfying "click" sound, the mouse actually has a speaker in it. I love how geeky that is, but whatever happened to "keep it simple" and what about the satisfying click "feel"?
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Posted August 6, 2005 5:12 PM
Wall Street Journal review.... http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050804.html
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Posted August 9, 2005 1:44 PM
Okay, to be fair, i'm trying out the new Apple mouse, right now, at the Apple store at Pentagon City. The tiny mouseball works well, but it doesn't act like a ball, as it can only go up and down *or* left and right, but not both for diag movement. I accidently clicked a few times while using the ball but that's probably because i'm not used to the mouse. Left and right click work as expected for a Mac mouse. The entire mouse pushes down instead of buttons. Again, personal preference, I like to "feel" the two different clicks so i know which one I pressed - in this case the full mouse goes down if you push the left or right side. The side buttons require a significant squeeze to make them happen. I'm guessing this design was to solve a problem with earlier Microsoft mice with side buttons that were *too* easy to push. Again, personal preference, I like my buttons to be easier to push. I use the Microsoft Wireless Opticial Explorer which has two side buttons on the left side which I use for forward and back. I've become so used to using those buttons for forward and back that I can't stand mice without them - it's like using a mouse without a mousewheel. Since both side buttons on the Apple mouse have to map to the same function, I'm guessing you can't map them to Forward and Back, but I'm sure somebody will figure out a way around that.
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