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Smash My Mighty Mouse!
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Do you guys never wash your hands or what? I've had a Mighty Mouse for the better part of two years and I've not once had to clean it. It gets stuck VERY occasionally and all I have to do is a little vigorous scrolling and it's fine.
Moral of the story: wash your filthy hands.
Moral of the story: wash your filthy hands.
It's your mouse and you can do with it what you want....but I personally think that was a stupid thing to do. I've had mine since Jan of 2006 and don't really have any problems. Rarely does the scroll ball not work for me. Next time someone want to get rid of their MM, I'll happily take it off your hands. No sense to destroy a wonderful device.
Hmm...I'm thinking of starting a Mighty Mouse Rescue Preserve.
Hmm...I'm thinking of starting a Mighty Mouse Rescue Preserve.
This seems so...pointless. My MM usually last for about 9 months before gunking up (and i never clean them), then i call apple, and they send me a new one. You could have done this and had a spare mouse, but whatever floats your boat
I wash my hands a lot, but I guess they just put out some gunk naturally. My wife tried using it, and it got stuck for her as well. She bought a 5 dollar mouse and has been laughing at me because this $60 garbage does not work correctly. I am going tomorrow and replace it with a state of the art 5$ USB mouse that will work perfectly.
No worries, it didn't work out for you but I don't think that $5.00 mouse will be wireless. Look for some wireless solutions because when you get used to wireless it's hard to go back to a tethered solution. Good luck.
Must be nice to throw $60-$70 away like that. There is warantees for things like this. Could have gotten it replaced then sold and then bought yourself 12 of those $5 mice.
Kevin
Kevin
I agree. I have three at home one on each of three different machines and one at work. I use them all every day, and the one at work I use all day.
No problems with any of them.
Cheers.
I found it dead easy going back to wired from wireless. Less hassle with batteries, and the thing doesn't have to move far after all.
I guess using a can of compressed air to clean the ball was a little too grown up for you..
I guess using a can of compressed air to clean the ball was a little too grown up for you..
No, I thoroughly sprayed the ball with compressed air after smashing it to pieces.
I have to agree about the ball sticking. I keep a very tidy workstation (which I never eat near) and I wash my hands thoroughly and often. I actually came on the forum today to see if I was the only one having this problem. I have no gunk built up on the ball or around the opening, yet I am having some problems with sticking. If I move the ball aggressively it usually unjams quickly, but I wonder if this will become a problem over time since the computer is so new. I was using some cheap-o Microsoft mouse with a scroll wheel for 3 years with no problems, and I never once cleaned the wheel. I think I'm going to plug that ugly thing back in intead of the mighty mouse if this keeps up.
I'd have tried to open it up and clean ball part. If you mess up, it doesn't matter 'cause you were going to smash it anyway. If you successfully clean it, you'd have saved yourself from having to buy a new mouse.
Poor mouse, I bet he never hurt anybody like you hurt him.
I got an iMac on Sunday and loved the mouse so much, I bought one to go with my MBP last night.
I've had three MM's all of them stopped scrolling, I thought opening them up voided the warranty?
