Is magic mouse compatible with PC?

[zxcvb]

would this new Magic Mouse work the PC (have bluetooth )?

I just need click, scrool up,down, left, right

 

[RaceTripper]

would this new Magic Mouse work the PC (have bluetooth )?

I just need click, scrool up,down, left, right

Good question, because I'd just like to know how it'll work on Windows running in VMware Fusion. I ordered the mouse today.

 

[rgarjr]

I should work. Maybe it will require drivers.

 

[RaceTripper]

I should work. Maybe it will require drivers.

I think that's the point of the question. Will there be drivers for Windows? It's pointless to say it should work if no one writes the drivers to make it so.

 

[Scippy]

I would assume, that since apple is advocating using windows though boot camp and virtual machines, that they would support their own mouse.

 

[Peace]

I'm sure there will be an update to the Windows Apple hardware drivers app when 10.6.2 comes out.

 

[RaceTripper]

I'm sure there will be an update to the Windows Apple hardware drivers app when 10.6.2 comes out.

I use Fusion without Bootcamp so that won't do me any good, unless Apple delivers drivers independent of the Bootcamp drivers installer.

 

[Eric S.]

I would assume, that since apple is advocating using windows though boot camp and virtual machines, that they would support their own mouse.

If they support it as well as they have the glass trackpad on the unibody Macbooks, we can expect it to be many months before it's even usable.

 

[iCheddar]

My guess would be that compatibility is within the device's firmware, and not the computer's hardware.

I've used both the mighty mouse and apple keyboard with actual PCs with no problem. And I know that certain elements of functionality are within the device's firmware itself. For example, the slight caps lock lag on the apple keyboard is still there even when connected to a real PC.

 

[rorschach]

Dunno about actual PCs, but at least for Boot Camp...

Symptoms
When you use an Apple Magic Mouse with Windows XP and Vista using Boot Camp 3.0, which ships with Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, or Boot Camp 2.1, which shipped with Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, up or down scrolling and two finger swiping does not work.

Resolution
These features do not work in Windows when using Apple Magic Mouse with Boot Camp.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3039

And this as well...

Apple Wireless Keyboard (2009) and Apple Magic Mouse devices connect as virtual USB devices in Windows on a iMac (Late 2009), so they are not available through Bluetooth in Control Panel or Bluetooth in Device Manager. Bluetooth devices cannot currently be used with Windows XP and Vista using Boot Camp on iMac (Late 2009)

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3037

So it looks like it'll work only on the new iMacs -- and through a "workaround" of sorts since BT isn't supported with Boot Camp on the new iMacs.

 

[DELTAsnake]

So it looks like it'll work only on the new iMacs -- and through a "workaround" of sorts since BT isn't supported with Boot Camp on the new iMacs.

Windows has native support for Bluetooth devices including keyboards and mice. Unless Apple is doing something unusual with the Magic Mouse and wireless keyboard they shouldn't be needing to do workarounds to get them to work.

Oh, and as for VMware users the way virtualization works is it creates generic virtual devices in software that the guest OS talks to then the VM software interprets it into a format the host OS can understand. So if you run Windows in VMware or Parallels it the Magic Mouse will work, but it won't have multitouch unless it's built into the VM software.