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I would just like to hear a review from some mag. Is it really better than the craptastic mighty mouse or just as crapatastic?

I sure hope it works better than the "Mighty Mouse" or whatever Apple now calls it. That's what I currently use. When the battery gets about 1/2 used up it starts to loose itself occasionally and the scroll ball hasn't worked in months. I ordered one on line from Apple, but, it won't ship until the end of October.

I recently replaced my Mighty Mouse with a Logitech LX3 Optical Mouse, mainly because I needed a scrollwheel that actually worked. Overall, it's a far smoother device.

The Microsoft Trackball Explorer is still my hands down favorite mouse. They don't make it anymore. How the hell do you get this now?

http://www.microsoft.com/PRODUCTS/info/ … r#HowToBuy

wow, such an expensive mouse, yet so tempting cause it's so precise, comfortable, and exact in operation! The thing I love about it the most is you aren't sliding your hand all over a desktop, just rolling two fingers and clicking with "surgical" precision and efficiency of movement. Does the Magic Mouse work that way, just like a trackpad instead of sliding the pointer all over your desk? If so, that is its greatest strength. If not, then it's lame.

Nah, not making a trip out for that purpose. Just watched the Magic Mouse video, and it's sitting squarely in the "lame" category. Too bad, since the surface is a multi-touch capable device but it isn't programmed to MOVE THE POINTER. It's Trackball vs. Mouse, and there is still a distinction. Apple should release an input device that really revolutionizes mousing. This one isn't it.

jerwin wrote:

so you want a usb trackpad?

no I wanted Apple's multi touch click/tap/swipe/pinch/rotate all in one smooth surface trackpad, and i havn't tried the magic mouse yet but it looks like it will deliver.

I think knobtwirler has historically proven he is one of the harder members to satisfy in terms of what hardware he finds acceptable. Still I reserve my opinion on the mouse until I try it. My big concern is I'm a heavy middle click user and it looks like that doesn't work now. If that does it'll suck for me.

knobtwirler wrote:

wow, such an expensive mouse, yet so tempting cause it's so precise, comfortable, and exact in operation! The thing I love about it the most is you aren't sliding your hand all over a desktop, just rolling two fingers and clicking with "surgical" precision and efficiency of movement. Does the Magic Mouse work that way, just like a trackpad instead of sliding the pointer all over your desk? If so, that is its greatest strength. If not, then it's lame.

I remember using a mouse like that, at my local library, my thumb really started to hurt after only 5 minutes of rolling the ball around.

All I have to say is "meh?!".  The shape of it looks like it is too small.

-mark

Last edited by avkills (2009-10-25 10:55 am)

Blah, just saw a review and it lack 3 & 4 finger swipe recognition and doesn't have the 2 finger pinch/zoom/rotate functions either. I guess it's a step in the right direction but I'll wait until a fully functional multi-touch trackpad is released from them before I get a desktop. Damn you Apple for making me so addicted to your built in trackpad!

Wireless mouse and KB never made much sense to me on the desktop. I have never found the wires a problem. Wireless just seems to introduce more complication and thus, more opportunities for failure.
Over all I have low expectations for the new mouse. Apple has a ten year tradition of making bad ones. I think with mouses and KB Apple's tendency of putting form over function makes them produce interesting products that are lousy to use.