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New Macbooks = New Mighty Mouse?

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thanachai

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Dec 2, 2008
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Apple has made a yearly change to the Mighty Mouse ever since it was introduced late 2005. I don't believe we saw a revision at all this year. So does any one think they will introduce a new one soon? An aluminum Mighty Mouse? How sexy would that be? :D
 
amrk47 said:
i would like one that actually works
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Agreed! We have several labs in my school. In one in particular with white Intel iMacs, half the mice work and the other half are so jumpy they're unusable. We had to replace those mice. They are all on the exact same furniture in a well lit room.

Personally, I can't use the side buttons. Those are the buttons I try to use if I have to pick up the mouse and move it and I end up hitting the buttons.
 
I didn't even know they made any changes to the mouse since it came out! I tried one for a bit and just couldn't get used to it.
 
StuBeck said:
I didn't even know they made any changes to the mouse since it came out! I tried one for a bit and just couldn't get used to it.
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I think I'm correct in stating there has never been a change to the Mighty Mouse except the addition of the bluetooth one a few months after the tailed one.

Ya think they would have updated it when they released the new keyboards... but no.

My has always worked fine... I love it!
 
I didn't like the BT mighty mouse too much. It was a bit too jittery. It got a little better when I used steermouse but it still was a bit off. Same goes for the Razer proclick mobile BT mouse that I used. I ended up settling on a Logitech V470 bt mouse for travel. It is still not prefect, but it's movement is a bit more accurate the aforementioned mice. It's ok for a travel mouse. At home I just use a regular wired Mighty mouse.
 
And the scroll ball gets dirty and quits working too easily since it's so small. We have a table in my school's comp lab with about a dozen Core Duo iMacs. Scrolling down with the ball is pretty much impossible. It works every so often with 1 or 2. The rest are all hopeless.
 
J the Ninja said:
And the scroll ball gets dirty and quits working too easily since it's so small. We have a table in my school's comp lab with about a dozen Core Duo iMacs. Scrolling down with the ball is pretty much impossible. It works every so often with 1 or 2. The rest are all hopeless.
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I had that issue but if you get a clean piece of paper and roll the ball on it decently fast for about a minute that problem will be solved.
 
i've had the mouse 7 or 8 months now. i was reluctant after i read about all the problems here. Its the best mouse i've ever had. No problems yet touchwood.
 
Camoischaos said:
I had that issue but if you get a clean piece of paper and roll the ball on it decently fast for about a minute that problem will be solved.
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Wow, thanks for the tip! I'd been cracking open the mouse every month or two and cleaning out the rollers which was really annoying but that method just started my mighty mouse scrolling downwards again.

In hindsight I probably wouldn't have bought it again but there's a real lack of decent bluetooth mice on the market.. a new improved mighty mouse would be great though, especially if it fixed the ball problems (I've had no real tracking issues)
 
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