Apple releases "Mighty Mouse"

Published on August 3, 2005 By 47songs In WinCustomize News

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:

Link

Comments (Page 1)

c242

on Aug 03, 2005

Yeah, Apple praises itself again for something that is available since a long time now...

Lotherius

on Aug 03, 2005

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?

ZubaZ

on Aug 03, 2005

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.

-OZZY-

on Aug 03, 2005

i am not impressed....seems they are !! dunno why though...

lgm1

on Aug 03, 2005

I don't like mouses... white especially - they alerady dead for me

47songs

on Aug 03, 2005

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.

Excalpius

on Aug 03, 2005

yawn

horizon

on Aug 03, 2005

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.

cowboy77061

on Aug 03, 2005

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.

DJones2000055

on Aug 03, 2005

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.

Aquamonkey

on Aug 03, 2005

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

aimzzz

on Aug 03, 2005

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.

aimzzz

on Aug 03, 2005

Woop-- Developer horizon- I just read the rest of your post-guess I'll just second what you said...

Jafo

on Aug 03, 2005

Listen to horizon .....

c242

on Aug 04, 2005

I wondered that they didn't call it "Almighty mouse" though.

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