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Apple Introduces Magic Mouse - A Multi-Touch Mouse

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It's lacking the squeeze feature which I would have open the safari. I think ill be keeping my might mouse, but that new 27" imac looks good to me.
 
I've been looking at the magic mouse video again. No matter what people say about its functionality and style, ergonomically sound it is not.

The idea is that you move the mouse around as an ordinary mouse and then, while holding it, flex your fingers on an awkwardly convex, narrow and elevated surface. This will put a lot of unnecessary strain on your wrists, the small tendons and muscles on the top of your hands and the fingers. The puck mouse was of course worse, but I think the mighty mouse has now been elevated to the position of Apple's most ergonomic mouse thus far!
 
ThunderSkunk said:
Two things:
1. Two AA Batteries make for a heavy mouse. A heavy mouse is a jerky mouse, and no fun to do accurate work with.
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The mighty mouse had the ability to take two AA batteries but was able to run on just one. I am hoping they keep this ability in the magic mouse as I only ever ran my mighty mice with one battery. I scoured the apple pages and could not find any tech specs that state whether it has the same ability or not?! Anyone seen anything concrete on this?
 
RaZaK said:
I guess that no-name company can say goodbye to getting any future money on damages for using the Mighty Mouse name.:rolleyes:

Let's see which stupid company comes out of the woodwork to claim the Magic Mouse name. lol :D
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Stupid company? :eek: Wash that ignorant trap out with bleach!

Discus > Useless overpriced flat thing.

Bless. Apple thinks the solution to not bothering to get the basics right is to blight it with featuritis. Microsoft used to do the same with its OS.
 
Apple just made history with this alien sleek looking piece of technology!
Anodized side aluminum sold me!

My money is yours. :D
 
Wow Apple manages to release something apparently less usable and ergonomic then the Mighty Mouse, call me speechless.
 
GorillaPaws said:
I have my 3rd mouse button set to activate expose, and "the squeeze" set to trigger spaces. The nice thing about "the-mouse-formerly-known-as-mighty" was that you could choose to use the squeeze controls or not, so it scaled in complexity along with the user's needs. In other words, if you don't like it you can disable the 4th buttons and not have it screw you up, whereas someone like me can choose to put it to work for them.
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That's true, choice is always good. Its the first thing that gets turned off in the system prefs for me though (it is active by default isn't it?, which is the perverse thing, since i think right clicking is inactive by default, no?)
 
This thing looks cool in the demo. I like the idea of momentum scrolling too as it's something I've gotten used to on touch phones (like my G1 and iPhones) and iPod touches.

The biggest thing with a mouse though is comfort and I tend to prefer simpler layouts. (I've been using some pretty generic Microsoft mouse for some time.) I think I'm gonna stop by the Apple Store today and check this thing out. If it's comfy, I want one!
 
Ok, i'm glad i'm not the only one who think Apple's Mouses are just not ergonomic at all.

I WILL say, this thing is VERY sleek. But seriously, i hate their keyboards and mouses. Looks over function. Please explain how a multi touch swipe back or forward is better than a simple button near my thumb? Or a tilt scroll wheel.
 
ryan said:
Try swiping four fingers across a mouse and it's not going to stay put; you really need a thumb and pinky holding it in place.
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You know, I was thinking the same thing. But I tried it with my current mouse and it doesn't move at all with a light swipe of 4 fingers. Up or down. So if they could update the software to allow that, it might be fine.
 
Is there a way for me to set shortcuts for quick access on "Spaces", "Dashboard" or "Expose"? I use those a lot on my mighty mouse.
 
It looks nice, but I don't want another Bluetooth mouse after the Mighty Mouse failed (though I shouldn't have to take this one apart every 3-4 months). Also after buying a wired MM I realised how heavy the 2 AA's made the BT MM.

Hopefully a USB version might be on the cards.

Still as I said, looks nice. I wonder how many the local Apple store will have on display? Afterall as it's Bluetooth it'll probably go walkies in my local store. (Can't recall a BT MM being using in store)
 
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This is very interesting. I want to check it out even if I don't buy it. I wonder if they will be in the shelves this week in the Apple Store.
 
gr8tfly said:
As already mentioned, you don't want them the same. When you scroll on a normal mouse, you use a single finger - not two.

I'm waiting to find out what the surface is like - optimally, it would be close to the glass surface on the MBPs. They're always smooth as silk. I'd hate to go back to a sticky (by comparison) plastic surface.

A bit off topic, but has anyone else noticed the BT keyboard now only requires two batteries, not three?
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I did and I also noticed that the plastic on the bottom of the keyboard the keyboard has been moved to the middle and not the end by the power button.
 
unity said:
Finally! No more sticky little mouse balls! (Now thats something you dont say everyday)
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Love it! Haha :D

bleimone said:
I am surprised that this mouse is lacking the other nice gesture features like "pinch open close" and four finger expose. I wonder if that can be update via software.

looks sweet though
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EXACTLY my thoughts. I'm sure they will add them with a software update but come on Apple!!! Seriously, where is the pinch and rotate??? :confused: :( Also, I want rotate to switch tabs in Safari, and two finger swipe up to go to the top of a page, and two fingers swipe down to go to the bottom. These should be no-brainers!

But overall it looks AWESOME and I can't wait to get it! :D
 
iZac said:
Im happy about the removal of the side buttons. They were the worst idea apple ever put into the mouse, worse even than the trackball. The whole reason for the existence of those two nubbins was so you could pick the mouse up when in the middle of a 'click drag' (i.e. you reached the edge of the desk) without taking pressure off the button. All they let you do was activate the dashboard, while you're trying to drag files.

I'm mostly concerned about the ability to perform a 'mouse wheel click' which you need for pretty much any 3D program, Having said that, im definatley picking one up, since my mighty mouse trackball is screwed (just like every one elses)
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I am always using the side-buttons in my mighty mouse (for Exposé). I do agree about needing to be able to pushing the scroll wheel for a third button).
 
Wonder when they will be available in the Apple Stores? Local Apple store doesn't know when they will get them in stock. Time to kick the Might Mouse to the curb.
 
heyisa said:
I was excited about this until I found out it can only do half of the gestures a track pad can. Is it technically too difficult for it to track 3 fingers?
Until apple can truly make this a mouse that does what others cannot, I will be sticking with my trusty wired logitech 2-button scroll wheel mouse.
All this 'magic' mouse does is the same things the horrid 'mighty' mouse did with a facelift.
I was hoping for true innovation, maybe in time....
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Actually, it does less. No access to Exposé...
 
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