Apple’s Mighty Mouse. It’s Not What You Think.
A “personal” computer does work for us on a personal basis. We make it fit our needs. Apple’s new Mighty Mouse for Mac and Windows gets personal. Good? Bad? Mixed?
I finally bought a Mighty Mouse. Apple “thought different”. As with any mouse, keyboard, display combo, your mileage may vary. Here’s why.
Apple shipped the first commercial “mouse” as we know it back in 1984 with the first Mac. It took a decade to catch on in the PC world. Apple continued to sell, in various shapes and sizes, a simple, single-button.... (excerpted).
3 Reader Comments
Teacher said:
Doofus, kids in school can handle a Mighty Mouse with ease. Are you spastic, or what? A PC mouse fits the shape of the human hand better? Are you nuts? What’s the shape of the human hand? With about 7-billion people on the planet, I’d suggest that there are about 7-billion different shapes. Besides, almost any PC mouse is also a Mac mouse. They all work the same way. Get over it. Mighty Mouse is fine, and better than the crappy Dell mouse that comes for hundreds of dollars less.
Bobby said:
I’ve been using these mouses on the iBooks at uni for some time now and they have never functioned as expected or felt comfortable at all. The rounded shape of the mouse always feels awkward to me. I also think replacing actual buttons with touch sensitive buttons (for example, theres no seperate buttom for right click, the mouse is supposed to know when you want to right click) is a very poor design choice. This rarely works as expected and sometimes I have to click in several locations on the mouse just to get the right click menu to come up. Likewise, on some occasions when I left click the right click menu will display. I’ve been using a selection of microsoft and logitec mouses at home and having seperated buttons for left and right click definately takes the cake. Maybe its just because the mouses at uni are over worked, but then shouldn’t they be built to take some use? The Macs at uni are far from old. Although it may be true that “It took a decade [for mouses] catch on in the PC world”, it took far less time for PC’s to produce a mouse that works as expected, fits the shape of a human hand, and right clicks. I couldn’t imagine doing my line of work (graphic design) without a right click. The majority of users you refer to who are unaware of a right click would typically be home users with simple computing needs. Since the Mac is supposed to be the leading computer for the world of art and design, shouldn’t its hardware support that use?
One function I do like about these Mac mouses is the small scroll wheel. It works well, but it is painfully small. Designing requires really acurate scrolling and the scroll wheel on the Mac mouse gets tedious.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy using Macs, but this mouse is a failure.
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keyboard maestro said:
As a mouse goes, Mighty Mouse is decent, but not perfect. The ‘tit’ is too small, and the hidden left-right ‘buttons’ are typical Apple. Style over substance. The size seems very good. And the MM on all my Macs has been durable, easy to clean. A mouse is a personal thing. We tend to like what we use rather than going through the effort to try and use something different.