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Underwhelmed with 'mightymouse'

Tumbleweed666

Tumbleweed666

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Mar 20, 2009
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Near London, UK.
just moved to Mac and the only negative experience is the laughingly called 'mighty'mouse. Presumably 'crapmouse' is trademarked by some other company?

Two well documented problems,
1) The right click function randomly stops working,
2) the mouse itself randomly stops working

Come on Apple, for goodness sake, sort it out !
 
I think the mighty mouse is alright. The scroll ball and the squeeze side buttons pee me off some times.
 
Hahaha

They are made to be paper weights and topics of conversions. They are best used by not using them.

I'm a Logitech user VX Nano. It's been a great mouse.
 
^^
Precisely. They obviously arent designed to be ergonomic. The scroll ball shows that its not meant to be technologically advanced. All the right-click issues show its not meant to be high-quality.

Its just a mouse that looks nice next to an iMac. Other than that its pretty much useless.
 
Aah, I use one with my MacBook, I haven't had these problems.

Granted, I wouldn't use it for gaming and such, but it gets the job done for me.
 
Eraserhead said:
Why not spend $20 on a better mouse made by someone else?
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Or spend less for a better mouse. I found a MX518 on ebay for $28 and have never been happier. Cant beat it for the price and it has tons more functionality than the MM, its just not quite as pretty.
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
You're complaint is nothing new, go buy a Logitech like the rest of us (or MS LaserMouse).
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Well I'll probably go back to the (oh the irony) wired msmouse I retained from my PC.

I was foolish enough as a new user to think that an apple mouse with an apple computer would give me a pain free experience. What logitech mose would you recommend? Are you saying that they don't lose connection? And the right click, err ... right clicks?
 
Tumbleweed666 said:
Well I'll probably go back to the (oh the irony) wired msmouse I retained from my PC.

I was foolish enough as a new user to think that an apple mouse with an apple computer would give me a pain free experience. What logitech mose would you recommend? Are you saying that they don't lose connection? And the right click, err ... right clicks?
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Well, in the Apple world the Mouse situation has been a laborious and painful progression. Just imagine if you received a One-button mouse with no scroll wheel with your brand new Mac. 4 years ago you would have!

Anyway, I was going to pick up the Logitech MX518 on a friend's recommendation. You know it doesn't really matter what mouse you use, they all (99%) work as advertised with Macs. I've never used a BT mouse, at the moment I use a USB wireless MS LaserMouse which does the trick.
 
Go do yourself a favor and get yourself a real mouse. I tried the MM for a day and it went back the following day. The right-clicking is a joke and the bluetooth disconnecting is just not acceptable.
 
NoSmokingBandit said:
Or spend less for a better mouse. I found a MX518 on ebay for $28 and have never been happier. Cant beat it for the price and it has tons more functionality than the MM, its just not quite as pretty.
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Its alright to vouch for the performance of a mouse, but using ebay as a base for how much you paid is dumb. Its an auction site, after all.
 
Agreed, the Mighty Mouse sucks. Just search the forums and you'll find many threads attesting to the suckiness of the Mighty Mouse.

I'm a big fan of the Logitech VX Revolution myself. The perfect size, the perfect amount of buttons (not too many, not too few), great feel.

Best mouse since the Microsoft Intellimouse Optical :D
 
I personally have no problems with my Mighty Mouse
Others seem to

The bottom line is... if it works for you, great
If it doesn't... find something that does

Woof, Woof - Dawg
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Love MM. Been using it since it came out. Have 2 of them. Excellent tool when using Adobe CS stuff. I've even gamed with it w/o any problems.

As for right click, you have to learn how to use it properly.
 
I recently busted my mighty mouse by taking it apart and trying to clean the scroll button. I was bummed but at least remembered I had a cheapo Best Buy mouse in the drawer I bought for something else a year earlier. I plugged it in and realized I should have done that about 3 years ago. :) Wow, I could scroll with my mouse just like all those pc people had been doing for years. A sound mouse design still seems to elude Mac engineers. :D:D
 
uberamd said:
Its alright to vouch for the performance of a mouse, but using ebay as a base for how much you paid is dumb. Its an auction site, after all.
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I would normally agree but it wasnt an auction, it was in one of the stores and he had several in stock at that price. I almost bought two.
 
the mighty mouse is like the headphones to the ipod, they are functional, but surely not the best out there. As others have mentioned, I've taken advice from this forum and got the logitech mx revolution, wow does it have a lot of features and handles amazingly well.
 
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