Apple Mighty Mouse

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches ; 8.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007Y79E4
• Item model number: MA086LL/A
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (121 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 2, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At a surprisingly low price, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze.

Spry and Mighty
In the beginning, there was one button. Then there were two. Then there were clickable scroll wheels and programmable toggles and solid-state slides. But nobody made a mouse as easy to use as your Mac. Until now. Mighty Mouse combines the capability of a multibutton mouse with Apple's signature top-shell design for the best of both form and function. Use it any way you work: Stick with single-button simplicity or click with multibutton efficiency.

Get Around
Time is round. Space is curved. Why should your mouse be linear? Plenty of applications require you to do more than scroll up and down. Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability, thanks to its Scroll Ball, perfectly positioned to roll smoothly under just one finger. Explore the farthest reaches of your files—pan images in iPhoto, view timelines in iMovie HD and Final Cut Pro, traverse bars in GarageBand and Logic Pro—with one hand tied behind your back (or holding a cup of coffee or typing). Mighty Mouse gives you room to roam.

You'll Really Click
Touch-sensitive technology under Mighty Mouse's seamless top shell detect where you're clicking, transforming your sleek, one-button mouse into a two-button wonder. But the innovation doesn't end there. Apple engineers added force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse that let you squeeze the mouse between your thumb and finger, activating Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard, Exposé or a whole host of other, customizable features—instantly.

The Mouse That Roared
Unlike any other mouse on the market, Mighty Mouse was designed specifically to work with Mac OS X Tiger. Up-to-the-minute information on Dashboard is only a click away. Viewing, hiding, and selecting your windows via Exposé is just as simple. And because Mac OS X Tiger makes Mighty Mouse programmable, you choose where every click takes you.

Product Description

Apple's Mighty Mouse comes to save the day. In a world where mice have become humdrum functional appliances, Apple's engineers and designers have developed a better, more refined mouse for better productivity and enhanced ease-of-use. When used with OSX Tiger, the Mighty Mouse roars. Unlike any other mouse on the market, Mighty Mouse was designed specifically to work with Mac OS X Tiger. Up-to-the minute information on Dashboard is only a click away. Viewing, hiding and selecting your windows via Expos is just as simple. And because Mac OS X Tiger makes Mighty Mouse programmable, you choose where every click takes you. Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability, thanks to its Scroll Ball, perfectly positioned to roll smoothly under just one finger. Explore the farthest reaches of your files pan images in iPhoto, view timelines in iMovie HD and Final Cut Pro, traverse bars in GarageBand and Logic Pro with one hand tied behind your back (or holding a cup of coffee or typing). Mighty Mouse gives you room to roam. Ellipical Shape System Requirements - Mac OS X (programmability requires Mac OS X v10.4.2 Tiger or later), or Windows 2000 or Windows XP (not all features may be available when used with Windows or earlier OSX versions)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

75 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mighty Mouse Pretty Good, August 6, 2005

By	D. Solberg (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

1. LEFT and RIGHT CLICKS: The whole mouse body moves down to register a click, so there is a physical click happening (just like the previous Apple mouse). * If you have your fingers resting on the both sides of the front of the mouse and then click, the mouse will register a left (normal) click. * If you have your fingers resting on the left side only and then click, you will get a left click. * If you have your fingers resting on the right side only and then click, you will get a right click. * If you have your fingers only in the middle and then click, you will get NO click. * If you have your fingers on the scroll ball and click, then you get a middle click.

Basically, this means you need to have your fingers in the right place when you click, except that if your fingers are all over the mouse, then you just click a normal left click. I had trouble getting used to it in 10 minutes, but I think long-term it would work for me. However, when I had other people using my computer, it would probably drive them mad at first.

2. THE SCROLL BALL: I love this thing. I was able to quickly scroll around a web page and a enlarged photo. The ball seems very natural and works well even with its small size. As you roll the ball, different parts of your finger come into contact with it, making it seems bigger. I was able to scroll up and down a long web page in just one up and down movement of my finger. I have no idea whether the ball will stay clean and hold up in the long run, but it works great out of the box.

3. THE SQUEEZE BUTTONs: This is probably the weakest link in the mouse. The buttons (one on each side of the mouse) take quite a bit of pressure to activate and are in an odd place that requires moving my hand. In fact, I would pretty much stop what I was doing and concentrate on squeezing. I'm actually a pretty strong guy, so I'm surprised this was so noticeable.

4. COMPATIBILITY: This mouse can only be programmed with the absolute latest version of Apple's operating system. That means that unless you've bought a new Apple computer or the new 10.4 operating system recently and then downloaded and applied the latest update, you have to rely on the preprogrammed actions for each button. Curiously, people have told me that you can program the buttons on most Windows PCs. I have the latest system, so it's no problem for me.

5. DESIGN and FLEXIBILITY: I like the look of this mouse: very clean and white. You can also choose to make this into a one-button mouse or a two-button mouse (if you have the latest Mac operating system or most Windows systems). It seems well made and matches Apple's keyboard.

OVERALL, I plan to buy this mouse because I'm a sucker for attratively designed items. I don't right click very much, but I scroll a lot, and that scroll ball works very well for me.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A design disaster..., April 27, 2006

By	Richard Bray (Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm a heavy graphics and presentation editor, and liked the idea of horizontal scrolling.

Bought four of them for the office, and for the first few months they worked fine. The size and position of the side squeeze buttons takes a little getting used to, not optimal for most people, re-positioning the hand is often necessary. Then the scroll ball started sticking. Followed the recommended instructions to clean it, not much effect though. Surfed the web and found others with similar problems.

Followed a website advice, took it apart, tried to access the scroll ball directly, but the components are not designed for that kind of behaviour amd re-seating was difficult. One of them now has a non-smooth base, useless to use. The other three are relegated to spreadsheet navigation, as the use for general graphics and imaging work became too frustrating, a scroll ball lock as you are trying to cut and paste or move a complex set of images was happening too frequntly.

Maybe it is OK for light users, but cannot recommend it as a full-time mouse.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mighty mouse is mighty touchy, August 14, 2006

By	Donald Pylant (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are looking for a two button mouse, get one with well defined left and right sides. With this one, it is not easy to click left or right due to the one-piece hard shell - sometimes getting the opposite result.