More Details on Next-Generation Mighty Mouse?

[TheSlush]

Errant scrolling risk?

My only trepidation about this idea of killing the poor fragile little trackball (and yes, mine got gunked up and stopped working too) and being replaced by touch-sensitivity is the potential for stray, errant scrolls from your finger moving over the surface of the mouse during normal non-scrolling use.

But in Apple I trust.

I know that's hard to make but this is Apple we are talking about. They invented a phone that suddenly appeared and now eats all the other phones.

Lol, too true.

I would also like them to start making right and left-handed mice; while it's admirable that they keep trying for a mouse that you can use with either hand, the result tends not to be very comfortable for prolonged use, at least for me.

You mean like a curved mouse? I just don't see it happening. Ergonomically, Apple tends to want to make things more universal rather than more customized. If they could figure out a way to make the same mouse design usable by blind quadruple amputees too, they'd do that.

I don't think I've ever liked a single Apple mouse except for the old G3 puck mouse...

I think you're officially the first and only person to say that.

 

[viperguy]

I like the idea! I might pick 1 to go with my Macbook!

 

[WestonHarvey1]

I'm pretty excited about this. I have an elaborate 1-hour cleaning process I use that restores function to my scroll ball in sometimes as many as 3 out of 4 directions.

It lasts as many as 10 minutes.

 

[xlii]

Why is it always foreign (non US) sources that have the skinny on Apple's next generation of products?

 

[crackbookpro]

Why is it always foreign (non US) sources that have the skinny on Apple's next generation of products?

We import a lot of things!

 

[DaBrain]

Forget the mouse, what I want is a bluetooth multi-touch trackpad.

I also would love to see this and wonder how they would implement the pressing the scroll button for going to the widget screen?

What I would really like to see in the new iMacs is a keybd with a detachable BT multi touch mouse pad. Now that would be Great!

 

[mac ath]

maybe the new mouse is the "touchscreen remote" we saw a few days ago and couldn't figure out for which device it was...?

 

[mobi]

How appropriate; my Might Mouse scroll ball just failed and after fiddling with it for a half-hour it is now partially working.

 

[Harpy007]

Apple store in Canada writes 2-3 weeks for delivery if you check the wireless mighty mouse and 7-10 days for the wired one.

http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MB111ZM/A/Wireless-Mighty-Mouse?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg&mco=MTA4Njg4ODE

http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MB112ZM/A/Mighty-Mouse?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg&mco=MTA5MjgxODA

This rumor is looking pretty accurate, can't wait!

 

[AAPLaday]

Bout time those without a portable mac got in on the joys of touch

 

[brad.c]

How about an extended BT keyboard too? Huh?

 

[Schizoid]

we don't need a slender mouse, we need a hand sized mouse that works.

agreed, making the keyboard smaller is silly, making the mouse smaller is litigious!

 

[125037]

Sounds cool and the iMacs need to HURRY up. BUT, lay your iPhone where your mouse would go and flick up or down. It feels really akward because of the angle and the positioning of your hand and the "mouse". I'm not sure that would work too good. Even if it wasn't flicking, it seems like using something touch sensitive over there like that would be quite akward.

"akward".....Am I spelling that right...its not aWkward.. is it?


EDIT: AWWW MAN, it is. I just googled it.

 

[decimortis]

I'd like to see a mouse with a rechargeable battery via usb, so you can use it wired, then just unplug the cable when you need to go wireless. If it happens to have an Apple logo on it somewhere, that would be cool too.

 

[125037]

Why is it always foreign (non US) sources that have the skinny on Apple's next generation of products?

Isn't most of it produced outside the US?

 

[electronboy]

But will it work?

The current mighty mouse is an ergonomic and reliability nightmare.

I keep my hands very clean and the scroll ball for both mice at home and work have stopped working. In fact, I have never seen one of the scroll balls on these overpriced wonders stay working for longer than 2 weeks!

Also, right clicks with the mouse are an absolute hassle. I threw out my Logitech wireless mouse cause of errant clicks and other weirdness.

I'll wait and see the next Apple mouse and if it's a pile of crap, Microsoft Mouse, here I come!

 

[iZac]

*glares at BT mighty mouse with knackered scroll wheel*

Soon you will go to mouse heaven.

On an aside, I vote for the black apple pro mouse as apples best looking mouse. If only it scrolled. I can do without a RMB (left hand permanently hovers over my keyboard anyway) but not a scroll wheel.

 

[kdarling]

That would be schweet! I can see the use of iPhone-type motions to really help with e.g., large text documents...

Heck no

Sometimes mouse scrollbars make a lot more sense.

The iPhone motions are horrible with large documents. Try to swipe quickly to a certain page or bottom of a PDF. It's painful, slow and ridiculous.

(Unless they built in touch scrollbar support, or huge acceleration, either of which are patches to the problem.)

 

[sanPietro98]

If it's multitouch, then they can even get rid of the ONE button! They never really admitted that one button was never enough. This would let them "save face."

 

[star-fish]

And lastly; battery life! They need to ditch AA batteries in favour of an internal one, with a charging and RF receiving dock, as RF uses less power I believe. My Logitech MX-Revolution can last for a little over two weeks of heavy use on a full-charge, and recharges from empty in two or three hours (though I don't let it get that low normally). When I used to use the wireless Mighty Mouse and its predecessor I was churning through batteries so quickly it just became a no-brainer to buy a different wireless mouse!

So why didn't you just buy one of the battery chargers that can charge 4 or 8 at a time and keep the spares charged? Or use better batteries?

 

[GoodWatch]

I'm very curious. I still use a wireless MM although the down-scroll often jams. And I want the whole package to keep that uniform look.

 

[Schizoid]

there's only one way to sort out the mice from the errr boys, and that's a game of MOUSE CONKERS!

we recently gathered all Apple mice from down the years and played conkers with them all, the winner was...

The Apple Mouse!
(you know - the square one with one big button on it, it weighs about 65kg, think it's got Uranium in it...)

 

[notromeel]

"inertia feedback"

Hold onnnn.

So, you're saying the same "bounce" feature I experience on the web on my iPhone I will be experiencing in Safari on my iMac, with this new mouse?

There's food for thought there ladies.

 

[TraceyS/FL]

I haven't had a ton of troubles with mine, in fact, i love it!

These work awesome for cleaning the ball.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IKKHFE

It's a felt like texture swab soaking in alcohol. Turn it upside down and roll and push.... then blow it dry.

Mine is now almost 2 years old and working fine with occasional cleaning. Same for the grungy handed kids wired one.

But it is due for a change, and i can't see what htey do. This one fits my hand well though - smaller won't work for me at all.

 

[whooleytoo]

I think you're officially the first and only person to say that.

Not so. The puck was my favourite single-button mouse too.

It was small - so easy to move around with two fingers, without having to move your entire hand.
It was flat - so didn't force you to bend your wrist back thus causing carpal tunnel pain.
The button was quite wide - which meant you could be quite flexible in where you placed your button-pressing finger; you weren't forced to contort your hand to keep the finger over a small button.