Apple Bluetooth Wireless Mighty Mouse
by Apple Computer
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Customer Review: This mouse is the worst thing apple has ever made
Summary: 1 Stars
Now, I've been an apple fan for several years now. I love them. When this mouse came out, I was so excited, and ran out to buy one.
That was a mistake.
After having it for about a week, the little scroll ball stopped scrolling down. It still scrolled up fine, and side to side, but would not scroll down, no matter how much I cleaned the ball or anything.
One day, I replaced the batteries because they were almost dead. BAM! I could scroll again!
I finally realized that once the battery level gets lower than about 65%, the scroll down stops working. Why? No one knows. Not even apple. Because I had the mouse for so long before I figured out what the problem was, Apple was unwilling to help me.
After having this mouse for about a year and a half, I just destroyed it. It works almost as good now as before I ripped it apart! ;)
Please save yourselves a lot of trouble and avoid this product! I wasted $70!
Customer Review: Fragile and clumsy
Summary: 1 Stars
Pros: the scroll ball feels wonderful, and side-scrolling suddenly becomes an indispensible part of your day the minute you start using it. The mouse is a comfortable shape, and tracks well on any surface I've tried. Bluetooth works smoothly and easily. Battery life is decent (about 3 weeks of daily use.)
Cons: it's incredibly fragile. After only a month of use, the scroll ball can go in any direction but down, and there's no apparent way to clean it out. The right-click button is very fussy; about two times out of three when I try to right click it actually left-clicks instead. And the side squeeze buttons require too much force to use. You can understand why they did that: if they hadn't, the side buttons would trigger every time you picked up the mouse -- but as it is they're kind of useless: Too hard to use on purpose, too easy to use by accident.
Customer Review: not great if you right click a lot
Summary: 2 Stars
While for folks who have lived in Appleland for a long time - this might look like a big improvement; coming from windows, I was underwhelmed.
I just moved from Windows to a Mac and am still in the habit of right-clicking a lot. That was one big reason why I bought this mouse instead of using what came along with my iMac. Unfortunately, it misreads a lot of my clicks.
It seems, hardware wise there is only one button on this mouse and the software is supposed to guess (I imagine based on where you press) if its a right click or left click.
This may be very elegant looks-wise but the software is not nearly as ideal as the hardware would be. It considers too many of my left clicks as right clicks and vice versa.
2 stars for good compatibility with all mac products and nice looks but I wont recommend it.
Customer Review: Mighty Mouse Surprises with Comfort and Charm
Summary: 5 Stars
Looking at the Mighty Mouse online, I got the impression that it wouldn't fit my hand. (I'm used to the Logitech mouse profile that tries to fill your palm up) I also read reviews that the right click doesn't work and that it had shortcomings mechanically. For that reason, I only bought one for my wife instead of buying two. Let me tell you, I need to buy another one for her since I'm using the first one we bought. This mouse is comfortable, the "clicking feel" is satsifying, it was easy to set up and the right click works great (perhaps those reviewers didn't enable the feature- it is optional). Maybe the best thing I like about it is that, even though it has a lower profile that other mouses, it feels like there is more substance in your hand since it it heavier than any other mouse I have used.
I highly recommend it.
Customer Review: Don't buy it
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't believe this product is still on the market. It is heavy, tracks like a car through mud and the scroll wheel problem is unbelievable. Apple should know better than to release something like this. I pretty much purchased it relying on Apple's reputation and boy did I learn my lesson. Have had macs for 20 years and never have I been this disappointed with one of their products. But like others said, I got addicted to horizontal scrolling before it got too sticky, and would no longer scroll down--went back to my Kensington wheel mouse. But truth be told, it was never very accurate when doing any kind of graphics or text insertion--always very sluggish and heavy like you were moving a can of tuna across your desk.
Can't wait till we have some more choices with horizontal scrolling--sure miss it with Excel.