Customer Reviews

Apple Mighty Mouse Kit

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This is a good mouse. My only complaint is there's no way to program in a double click. To clean the little ball and restore your ability to scroll in all directions turn it upside down onto a clean sheet of paper laid out on a hard flat surface. Roll the mouse with moderate pressure on the ball, back and forth, up and down, round and round, etc, so as to let the paper absorb your finger grease in all dimensions and on all sides of the little ball. Flip it over and you're good to go again. Always use a clean sheet of absorbent paper, like copy paper or junk mail. It works every time. Problem solved.

I have been a Mac user since the first one came out and have had about 20 of them by now right up to the latest MacBook andthe last [plastic body] 24" iMac . The iMac came with the new mouse and Functionally it is great. It has almost as many options as a game controller although I do not use all of them. The side button s were a little sensitive or my grasp was not and I kept accidently activating them. I turned them off but will probably try again.

A great feature as well as the major problem is the tiny built in track ball. It works great until it gets dirty. Right now mine only works in three directions but not down. This is a major inconvenience. As people experienced with the old mice with that worked on a ball principle may remember, you often had to pull the ball out, clean it and clean the rollers. It was not a big deal and was relatively easy to do. The mighty mouse has no provision to clean the ball or associated detectors. To open the mouse up to clean it is a tricky proposition involving the removal of a glued in ring.

The only reason I can come up with for this design is that apple hopes to sell a lot of replacements like the one that I am buying

I work as a graphic designer and am on a Mac 8 hours a day or more. When my second Microsoft Intelipoint mouse in a year stopped working, our IT coordinator suggested I try the Mighty Mouse. At first I was intrigued, but my delight faded quickly.

Firstly, the scroll ball is too susceptible to hand oils and dirt build up, leaving it inoperable. Even if you clean it with an alcohol soaked cotton swab, it is doomed by it's design to keep "clogging" up.

Secondly, the programmable buttons are limited at best. I wanted to set it up to zoom in programs like Illustrator and Photoshop for detail work, but they only do a general zoom, not the program specific.

Thirdly, within a week my wrist started to ache. I have used various mice for years and never ran into wrist pain. I know ergonomics are somewhat subjective, but I was surprised how quickly my wrist rejected this mouse.

All that taken into account I switched back to my malfunctioning Microsoft (boo!) mouse and am still searching for a suitable replacement. Perhaps the Mighty Mouse is better suited for limited home use as opposed to a professional environment.

This mouse sucks. I've had this product for years. The scroll wheel doesn't work. It isn't sensitive compared to other mice. To scroll down I have to click the sidebar which means more wrist effort. My wife's Lemel mouse was 25% the cost and is much more functional because it requires 25% of the wrist effort to move the cursor in the window and the scroll wheel works.

This product should be recalled. This is the second bad Apple mouse I've owned. Basta.

The only thing this mouse has going for it is the Apple look.

The mighty mouse is a highly overrated piece of equipment. Even if you up the scroll speed by a large factor, it still seems laggy and imprecise. If you are used to a proper logitech or Microsoft mouse you will be disappointed. Most $15 mice are far better than this piece of equipment. If you use a gaming mousepad, forget about this mouse.

In particular the mighty mouse gets dirty in a way no other mouse could. I have to clean the scroll ball approximately twice a week to keep it working. I am a fairly clean person and have cleaned my logitech mouse (approx 9 months old) exactly 0 times.

If this mouse didn't come with your computer, then do not bother buying it!

This is simply an awful product. Even the reviews on the MAC website concur with this opinion.

The problems are numerous: the cord is too short, the right-click button is difficult to consistently find/use, the scroll button broke after two months, and the two side buttons have NO USE whatsoever. In fact, the two side buttons take so much effort to press, I only used them a couple days because my wrist was becoming sore.

This is a product that should be avoided at all costs. The scroll button breaking issue has been reported by numerous users on reviews here and on MAC - this is not a fluke. I have nothing good to say about this product except that it looks nice.... but I'd take an ugly functional mouse over a pretty poorly-designed mouse any day.

the usual complaints: cable too short (fine if you use it left handed on a mac book, otherwise it can be awkward), trackball stops working (although you can sometimes clean it by rolling on a paper, still seems to require more maintenance work than it should at this premium price)

I LOVED this mouse for the first month. The ball only scrolls down now. No more up or side to side. It's been like this for a few years... but I've just lived with it until my comp died, so I'm shopping around. Unfortunately nobody seems to have come up with a clone that you can actually open up to clean! I'll probably just buy a click wheel, but I liked the features this had...when it worked!

Edit: By chance just read that the Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse has a tiltable wheel to allow side to side scrolling... making it the closest to the mac mighty mouse ([...]).
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Comfort-Optical-Mouse-D1T-00002/dp/B000A6NV0U/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1252947745&sr=1-10

Using a Microsoft mouse on an Apple? Sounds like blasphemy... but I may just have to give it a try...

Eventually a mouse's scroll wheel/ball will need to be cleaned. This is a fact that every computer user on the planet understands and accepts.

Except Apple computer engineers.

You can't clean the inside of an Apple Mighty Mouse, and that's a design flaw, plain and simple. After 3-6 months of use, it will become gunked up and will stop working. Additionally, the side buttons are unusable, and my guess is that these were never properly vetted by the engineers during R&D.

This is a flawed product.

Despite being a proud Mac user, (this hideous device came with my wonderful mac pro) the mighty mouse is a prime example of disposable electronics. I'm seconding the numerous reviews posted already concerning the deplorable, piss poor scroll ball that can be permanently disabled by even the most innocous speck of debris. The fifty @#$%ing dollar price tag is the biggest reason my normal sense of objectivity fails me completely in writing this review. My only recommendation is the Razer Pro Click 1.6, which has only mixed reviews, exposing what I feel to be a dearth of good, mac compatible multi-button mice. All I ask is that you please look elsewhere before subsidising garbage like this with your money.