Apple Wireless Mouse (M9269Z/A)

by Apple

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002VQDVW
• Item model number: M9269Z/A
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 14, 2004

Product Description

From the manufacturer

The Apple Wireless Mouse lets you take advantage of the Bluetooth adapter built into your PowerBook, installed in your iMac or Power Mac, or added to your eMac and iBook. The benefit? A degree of freedom from physical restraint that you can’t even imagine until you try it. This new Bluetooth-based peripheral uses adaptive frequency hopping to give you reliable wireless performance from a range of up to 30 feet, and offers secure 128-bit, over-the-air encryption — keeping sensitive information safe.

Since this mouse is wireless, you’ll enjoy the freedom to use it practically anywhere. Not only does the optical tracking engine allow it to work well on most surfaces, but the fact that it’s wireless means you can use it in your left hand or your right, on your pants leg, keyboard tray — or from across your office. There’s no cable to clutter your desk and tether you to your computer.

The wireless mouse has a single button that makes it easy and comfortable to use, regardless of the size of your hand. Whether you have a light touch or a heavy hand, the thoughtful click-force adjustment feature makes it more customizable. And the optical engine provides accurate and responsive cursor movement unhampered by performance-inhibiting dirt and dust buildup.

Apple has made setting up Bluetooth devices as simple as turning them on and clicking through an intuitive setup assistant. The mouse and keyboard are no exception: The new combined Keyboard and Mouse system preference panel includes a Bluetooth tab that lets you set up your new wireless mouse and keyboard in a snap.

Like using a mouse with your PowerBook? The new wireless mouse is perfect for you, especially when you take your laptop on trips. The mouse has been designed with an off-switch that lets you save battery power when you travel. And you only need to put the mouse in the on position to reestablish its wireless link with your Mac.

Product Description

The Apple M9269 Wireless Mouse is perfect for any Mac, whether it's an iBook or a G5. The optical technology lets you operate the Wireless Mouse on almost any surface and never requires cleaning.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's really not as bad as they say., March 13, 2006

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Angela M. Hatfield "Scout" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple Wireless Mouse (M9269Z/A) (Personal Computers)

I opted for the wireless keyboard and mouse when I bought my new iMac a couple months ago, and have been happy with the decision.

I'm a slacker, do-nothing type who sits in front of the computer all day, and when I'm away, my husband fills those shoes. I didn't replace the batteries in the mouse until today, and have yet to change the batteries in the keyboard. I don't know what people are doing to run through their batteries so fast (cough*pron*cough), but 6+ hours/day for two months without a battery switch is a pretty good rate for me.

Also, I have to beg to differ on one more topic: the wireless mouse DOES HAVE TWO-BUTTON CAPABILITIES! Either hold down the mouse about a half second longer, while clicking, to bring up the right-button options; or, for a quicker response, hold down the control button while clicking. It may not have the actual two-button design, but it does the job, and it does so without crumbs between unnecessary buttons.

My one problem is that it doesn't appear to have a scroll feature, though I may just not know of it yet. I won't start hopping up and down, screaming crazy mumbo jumbo, though, until I know for sure. That's just one of the perks of being a rational human being, which I enjoy daily while clicking away at my wireless mouse.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Horrible battery life, August 21, 2005

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R. van Bakel (Maine, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple Wireless Mouse (M9269Z/A) (Personal Computers)

Got the mouse -- with a beautiful new iMac G5 20'' computer -- in March. The mouse ate through a set of two AA batteries about every two weeks. I got sick of this soon enough and called Apple, where the techs acknowledged it was a problem and tried to find remedies. Nothing they suggested improved things, so I eventually got Apple to swap out the mouse for a new one, on the mutual assumption it was defective. That was a useless move though: the new mouse consumed batteries at precisely the same rate. I called Apple again a few days ago and a customer service rep now told me that the company considers the mouse performance "normal." I asked her if SHE'd considered it normal herself to buy a 60-dollar mouse that takes almost fifty dollars a year -- to run. I asked if competing wireless mice have the same problem, and if she, as a consumer, would consider it acceptable to be stuck with a mouse whose voracious power requirements are unadvertised. She mumbled that she wasn't at liberty to speculate. Beware. This mouse doesn't cost 60 bucks. If you hold onto it for four years before you get a new computer, it will have cost you a total of 250 dollars, or half the purchase price of a Mac mini. Ridiculous but true.

51 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cool looking, but not much else, February 3, 2005

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L. Renaud "prog_addict" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple Wireless Mouse (M9269Z/A) (Personal Computers)

This mouse looks great, goes perfect with the rest of my Mac setup and is enough to get me by. But apart from the looks, this mouse does not really have a lot more going for it. In fact, it has several drawbacks:

- Only one button and no scroll wheel. This is a known drawback of all Apple mice. The right-click is really useful and allows you to work faster. But beyond that, the fact that the entire front part of the mouse is the actual button makes it a little hard to control when dragging items.

- Poor battery life. I use my Mac an average of 5 hrs a day, and I have had to replace the batteries every couple of weeks. I tried to use rechargable batteries but they only last a few days.

- Slow response. While you are tracking, the response actually isn't bad. But when you stop and try to move the mouse again, there is a small delay before it actually starts to move. This is probably no big deal for business applications, but trying to play a fast paced FPS game with it is no fun.

- Small. I have average sized hands and I find the mouse a little too small for comfort. It's nothing I can't get used to, but a larger size would make my experience a lot more enjoyable. I also own a Logitech MX700 mouse that I use with my Windows PC and the level of comfort is beyond comparison.

I love Apple and most of the products they make, but I hope they get their act together and release a decent line of mice once and for all!

UPDATE: I have two apple Computers in my home with a Bluetooth mouse each. Over the past eight months I've had to replace both of them twice because they just stop working all of a sudden. Stay away from this product and save yourself a headache.