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Redesigned Magic Mouse With Touch and Voice Controls Reportedly Coming in 2026
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it needs to be more ergonomic. I find the current one to be too small for my Shrek like hands.
I'd be happy with this but with a proper scroll wheel:
Why would you want a scroll wheel and not a touch surface like the current iteration?
That was my thought too - same with "hand gestures" if that means what I think it does (i.e. hold down a key/button and swipe with the mouse, as has offered by the Logitech Mx Master since forever - except I don't bother with the Logitech software that enables it). These could be MacOS features that could be used with any mouse.
OK, so obvious answer is "so Apple can tie these features to the sale of their own mouse and make money" - but lots of people don't like the ergonomics of the Magic Mouse and want an alternative. That's not necessarily a criticism of the Magic Mouse - just the reality that people have different sized/shaped hands, different preferences, different habits and you can't make a one-size-fits-all mouse. Personally, I can't stand using a Magic Mouse - but I'm sure others hate my preferred MX Master with equal vengeance (not least anybody who operates their mouse with their left hand). I'm hardly going to buy an uncomfortable (for them) mouse just to get a shiny new feature.
Because some people prefer the tactile feel of a physical scroll wheel to touch sensitivity.
As per my earlier post, that doesn't necessarily mean "Magic Mouse Bad" - just that Apple is never going to satisfy everybody with just a single mouse design.
I can get by with the trackpad-like scrolling instead of a wheel, but I can’t stand the fact that there isn’t two separate buttons for left and right click. Do most typical Mac consumer users just never right click? It seems to be disabled by default, at least on an iMac.
I have never cared about the location of the charging port, and for all the discussion of poor ergonomics, I've used my Magic Mouse every day since 2009 with no ill effects. I get that people have different hands and grips, but I'm just saying -- I've never had an issue. And with the amazing BetterTouchTool added into the mix, my Magic Mouse is basically perfect for me, so I hope they don't make too many changes.
But...!
The microphone...intrigues me. When Apple stopped making the 27" iMacs, I switched over to the Mac mini. And now I have no microphone to use to activate Siri. So the idea of a mouse that would let me do so is, as I said, intriguing...
But...!
The microphone...intrigues me. When Apple stopped making the 27" iMacs, I switched over to the Mac mini. And now I have no microphone to use to activate Siri. So the idea of a mouse that would let me do so is, as I said, intriguing...
Last time I talked to a mouse, I was waiting in line to take a picture in Orlando.
I know it traditionally was Control + Right-Click
In all the Macs I used, it was totally possible to right click even without that, not sure if your issue is an Apple mouse thing.
are they gonna double the cost for the new ones too I'm sure they ain't gonna miss that opportunity
Have to say, no Apple mouse has ever impressed me apart from the original 1984 Macintosh when there was nothing to compare it with. However the only "what were they ever thinking!?" case was that round, "hockey puck" mouse which was objectively bad because it gave you no tactile clue as to which way the mouse was facing. (The infamous bottom charging port isn't good but was clearly a result of just replacing the AA battery holder with a rechargeable battery without re-thinking the shape of the mouse).
The "short cable" issue - another "one size fits all" problem: if you had the official Apple keyboard, it featured left and right USB ports so the mouse plugged into the keyboard and the cable was "just right".
Historically, the Mac always used single-button mice and you did ctrl-click to get the "context menu" (or, I suspect, many Mac users just never discovered the context menu, unless they'd come from another system) although post-USB it supported the right button on 3rd party mice.
I thought the Tragic Mouse registered a right-click if you clicked where the right button should be. The Tragic MacPad can be configured to register two-finger click as "right button".
Probably the same reason people prefer a scroll wheel over using the "click middle button and drag" alternative method that mice have supported for the past two decades. It makes sense to them, provides good feedback, and if you have a particularly good scroll wheel (ie, Logitech MX's), it is a lot easier on the wrist.
can you recommend a mouse with these blue sensors? I have struggled with my Magic Mouse for sure.Voice controls? Bruh I hope they don't try to get so fancy again they forget to update the horrible 15 year old sensor, I'm fully convinced anyone who defends this has never felt a good mouse sensor. It's skippy and inaccurate and sluggish and nothing like new blue sensors on different surfaces, and 90Hz feels especially bad on a 120Hz ProMotion screen but is already bad on any 60hz Mac.
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Ah, probably a personal thing - I've never liked the apple touch pad gestures, much preferred a physical scroll wheel and notched scrolling, especially for 3D software.
Then again, I'm also a weirdo that likes the ThinkPad nubbin.
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The short cable was actually a good part of the otherwise bad design of the puck mouse. Good wireless mice still weren't a thing yet (I think there were a few wireless mice on the market, but they mostly featured a huge ugly wired receiver and didn't perform all that well), and Mac users were generally already used to plugging their mouse into the keyboard with the ADB devices that it replaced. A long cable would just have been messy and in the way and for those few users who wanted to run their mouse cable to the computer, there were extension cables available.
There were a lot of third-party mice that supported right-click in Mac OS. IIRC, Mac OS 8 was when contextual menus were first introduced on the Mac, and that was still the ADB era. While it wasn't necessarily "native" right-click support, the drivers for Kensingtion ADB mice and trackballs (RIP TurboMouse - you are still missed) worked very well at emulating the "cmd-click" to get right-click functionality working.
Yeah, the right-click sensor and the squeeze-gesture to activate Expose was the "Magic" that Apple was touting in the Magic Mouse. It was definitely a step-up from all of the previous mice that Apple had been including with their machines, but were ultimately still glaringly gimmicky "form over function" improvements that seem to be the hallmark of post-iMac Apple mouse design.
Knowing apple, they’ll probably replace the inconveniently placed charging port with MagSafe charging, thus completely missing the point of why the charging design was terrible in the first place.
Why a mic?! Can't we just have a redesigned mouse? I don't want it to be a mic as well. I don't think I can explain why, but it just irritates me somehow.
I can think of one source of irritation: the thought of exactly where the microphone would have to go in order to ensure that it is not either covered by the user's hand or blocked by the user's desk. It would go right in the front of the mouse - right where many users are hoping to see a USB-C port. Just like most other wireless mice, you would now see a nice little hole in the front of the mouse, but unlike other mice, it would not be its charging port. It would be a microphone (well, unless Apple decides to design some kind of USB-C/Microphone hybrid-hole).
The Magic Mouse has the right click turned off by default. You have to go into System Settings to enable it. @AppleTO Many users that I help do basic computer things for don't even understand what a right click is, so I totally understand why Apple disables it by default, to avoid people having the context menu pop up all the time without them knowing why.
Actually, the Magic Mouse dropped support for the squeeze gesture that the Mighty Mouse had. One of my favorite features, and one of the main reasons I don't like using the Magic Mouse compared to the older Mighty Mouse. The two finger swipes to get to Mission Control on the Magic Mouse never worked as reliably or quickly as the squeeze on the Mighty Mouse.