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The mighty mouse is a small and stylish mouse. The multi-touch trackpad on my MacBook Pro is so great that I'm unlikely to ever plug a mouse in to it.If you love the style of the Mighty Mouse, go for it. Today it seems to lag behind the gigantic multitouch pads included in the latest MacBooks.Another innovation was the tiny x-y scroll ball.
The mouse itself is closer in size to a typical laptop mouse than the typical thick desktop mouse.The coolest feature of the Mighty Mouse is that the shell is touch sensitive. The only difference is that the Mighty Mouse scroll ball can't be removed for cleaning. It has a short and supple cord, designed to be plugged in to an adjacent keyboard or laptop.
This is nearly identical to the trackballs included on recent blackberries. While previous apple mice were limited to a single button, the Mighty Mouse can register a left or right click depending on where on the mouse you press. In 2007, this was a brilliant innovation.
Over time the scroll ball will accumulate dust and become harder and harder to use.I still use my Mighty Mouse on my desktop. There are more functional pointing devices available today.
There is now way to fix it. My Mom also has a Mac and she's had the same problem.
Eventually it started working again, but a few weeks later it seized up again. After just a few weeks the scroll wheel stopped scrolling down.
I can scroll up and side to side, but not down. This kept happening every few weeks, then every few days, then every day.
Now it's completely stopped scrolling down. I went to the Apple support site and found out this is a frequent problem and happens to a lot of people.
The only thing to do is buy a new mouse.
When I first got this I was disappointed by the speed of the tracking. It was TOO slow, but I later discovered that day that I could easily fix this by installing Steer Mouse from Apple's main site. Which giver's you full customization for your Mighty Mouse. And Steer Mouse is free by the way.
Period.The deficiencies in the Mighty Mouse could easily be addresses without sabotaging the extra features. I have been using Apple computers for 15 years, and I love them.However, in my organization (95% Macs) when I go to another staff member's computer and have to use their Mighty Mouse, that is when the trouble starts.Using a mouse (one of the primary input devices for the computer) should be INTUITIVE, and unfortunately, having used many, many mouses over the years, Apple's Mighty Mouse is the ONLY one I have problems with - consistently every time over and over during the same session of using it. I constantly have to be thinking about not touching the mouse where it doesn't want to be touched, and since it's a single housed unit, there is no physical feedback (like on other 2-button mouses) to clue me in on my finger positions.The mouse is not something a person should have to adapt to when using a computer. However, Apple's penchant for having elegant aesthetic design has overruled productivity by refusing to actually have a physical separation between the two buttons on the mouse, which is really all I object to (the lack of design feedback as to where my fingers are). I don't see how making two actual buttons on the mouse would hurt anything except some designer who wants a clean, line-free mouse.Add in that apple gives you a free one-button mouse (thanks for living in the 80s) and makes you buy a two-button one at significant cost, I can't help feeling that Apple has been the worst hardware maker of mice for the past 20 years.to the point where I end up writing a review like this about a company I normally praise.Don't even mention the horrible mouse they made for the original iMac that was round (probably looked pretty to the designer) but most users couldn't FEEL if the round mouse was pointed straight up, rotated left, etc.I give Apple ZERO points for any of their mouse designs throughout their history; which is pretty shocking considering that the Mac was the first popular computer to use a mouse as an input device.BTW, Apple has no way on their Web site for me to provide user feedback, and thus Amazon becomes the forum for advice to future shoppers.
I am a graphic designer and use the mouse heavily. The little track ball does not work properly. I have to say that this is definitely the worst mouse I have ever had. It is ergonomically incorrect. And it is not at all accurate. I'm replacing it with a cheap and efficient Kensington mouse that I use (and love) at my workplace.
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