I guess the problem is that you need to hold the mouse, if you use three finger gestures it would slide all over the place.
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Apple Introduces Magic Mouse - A Multi-Touch Mouse
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I guess the problem is that you need to hold the mouse, if you use three finger gestures it would slide all over the place.
I'm guessing nobody wants to buy my bluetooth mighty mouse now huh? I knew I should have put that up in the marketplace last month. 
You guys do realize that you will be gesturing on this mouse in a way which is completely different from the way in which you will be gesturing on a trackpad, right? The gestures should be different. What would be idiotic would be for Apple to copy them straight across.
I can imagine how pinch and zoom might work on the mouse, but it seems a little odd. This is something I'd want to use and play with before I purchased it. It could be very smooth or a little unusual. In any case, the lack of all those excellent gestures on a desktop computers has frustrated me since I came to appreciate my MacBook Pro.
One button... ONE button... ONE BUTTON!!! *sigh* How hard can it be to add a 2nd button? I don't think that even the most hardcore Apple fanboy - one that prays daily to the great Steve-o - would disagree with the simple fact of life that 2 buttons are better than one. Say I want to empty the trash... say I want to copy&paste without drag&drop... Say I want to open the friggin link in a new tab in a friggin web browser... Apple has yet again proven that their fancy is more important than fuctionality.
What a sexy mouse. Let's hope the functionality is better than the mighty mouse
Of course the most important question of all is: "does it scroll like butter?"
I would buy it just to finally have a bluetooth mouse with more than 2 buttons.
Every 3rd party mouse that has extra buttons has terrible bluetooth performance or requires a bluetooth dongle. <cough>Microsoft
Why don't you get that if you just attempt to use the mouse as a normal 2 button mouse, it functions just as you'd expect it to? Right click, and you get the right click menu. Left click, and and you left click.
It's not a tagged on feature or something thats disabled by default, just right click and it works. Just don't look down and expect to see two buttons.
You do realize that when you click with your finger on the right side of the mouse you're essentially right-clicking?
i'm confused... can't you do all those things with the secondary-click (right-click) on the magic mouse?
I still think they should add a trackpad onto the keyboard, and not try and jam multitouch onto the mouse...
If you have the original MM with the scroll ball, you can clean it while holding it upside down and rubbing it along a clean sheet of paper (I started out delicatly doing it, then used more pressure until I felt comfortable I wasn't going to destroy it, which was more pressure than from normal usage). I couldn't believe all that gunk that came out of mine, and I had to do it a few times over the course of the day (because I didn't want to roll it around for too long at once for fear of breaking it). Ever since then I can finally scroll down again where before it would only work for a few moments and then stop.
I regularly do it now and don't have any more problems with my scroll ball.
In my experience, "ergonomic" mice are anything but! One of the big ergonomic problems with mice (& keyboards) is wrist pain due to the 'wrist bent upwards' position when using those devices - which is why keyboards and mouse-mats often come with wrist-rests to raise the wrist up level with the hand.
By that logic, a 'flat' mouse is far better than a 'fat' one like the MX Revolution.
I had a MM whose ball was stuck solid some weeks ago; so I followed advice similar to the above. I applied force gradually as I cleaned, until finally it came free. Unfortunately, the force required to free the ball was more than enough to also break the rollers. Now the ball rotates freely, to no effect.
I did that for a few months with my wireless MM, and eventually the mechanics gave out and it stopped working forever. I took it apart and never found a way to restore functionality.
I bought a new one, but I'm buying this one too.
Looks like typical Apple form over function. I can't see this fitting the hand comfortably, and it most likely will be worse for repetitive stress injury.
Ever since the Mighty Mouse was released it has two touch sensitve sides on a one button mouse (three actually, with the middle click too). Normally not enabled by default, in 5 seconds you can enable the right click on it and it will function as a two button mouse, albeit slightly different as it is pressure sensitve.
You're five years late on that troll.
This is what Microsoft have in development.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...ows-Off-Multi-Touch-Mouse-Prototypes?from=rss
Microsoft actually make some nice mice.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...ows-Off-Multi-Touch-Mouse-Prototypes?from=rss
Microsoft actually make some nice mice.
Lets see, no, you can't. UNLESS you're running Mac OS. There probably won't be any drivers for Windows - which I use to play games every now and then or Linux - which I also use every now and then. Besides, if they DO WANT to have right click included, why not add a physical button? Seriously, HOW can u justify the use of fancy software instead of physical solution? CAN you give me any logical argument why physical 2nd button should'nt be there?
I had a MM whose ball was stuck solid some weeks ago; so I followed advice similar to the above. I applied force gradually as I cleaned, until finally it came free. Unfortunately, the force required to free the ball was more than enough to also break the rollers. Now the ball rotates freely, to no effect.
Well, too much pressure could break just about anything.
Sucks that it happened, but I'm just trying to point out that for the times I've done it personally and on the half-dozen or so different people's MM's it has been successful.
I didn't personally hear about the method until many months after mine had stopped working properly.