It's interesting the various priorities each person has. Personally, a nice clean look is close to the bottom of my criteria for most things. Yes, clean is nice but pretty much never at the sacrifice of other attributes
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What to Expect From the Magic Mouse 3
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Trackpad is good but some areas a Mouse is better, both are required hence why all these years both exits and both are used today, people over 50 been using Trackpads for decades as Trackpads are just as old as Mouses as well as Keyboards
A post the other day on MacRumors was Apple was preparing to release Beats-branded charging cables. I simply don't understand what's going on at Apple anymore. I mean you would think that a company like Apple would hire some of the world's best engineers and could presumably have half a dozen permutations of a new magic mouse inside a month, let alone a year. And it's been over 15 years since the original Magic Mouse launched.
Hmm, a Beats branded charging cable doesn't register in my top 1000 list of anything good or bad about Apple. But as for the mouse, it probably didn't take them long to design a new one. Just took a while before they thought it was important to do.
What this thread proves is that we're not all the same person! It's totally subjective.
I have a Wacom and use it once in a while for art, but 99% of the time I just use the mouse. And for me it's in no way a substitute for a pointing device, it's for drawing or things like editing the edges of shapes.
Having to look down and pick it up in a usable position wouldn't work for me. However, I do like having the Wacom even if I use it rarely - and I work on art every day. Maybe I'd use it more if it weren't necessary to open another view of the picture I'm working on and resize it for the Wacom's resolution.
It may also depend on what you're used to. I've been using the Magic Mouse all day long since it came out, and other Apple mouses before that. The current one is very comfortable for me, and as someone else posted, BetterTouchTool makes it even more useful.
Lots of people swear by trackballs. I can use them, but find them very awkward. Trackpads are much better, and they're okay - to the point that I rarely bother bringing along a mouse to use with my laptop - but I still find them less transparent to use than mouses.
My only complaint about the Magic Mouse isn't the charging port location, it's that macOS only warns you to charge it when it has about 2% left. BetterTouchTool is supposed to be able to warn you earlier, but I think that feature is broken.
So I have to keep a spare in my drawer for when that happens.
Just copy the Logitech master mouse series…don’t over complicate it with dongles Tim. I know you’ll micromanage it to the point of worrying about left and right handed people and possibly adding grip accessories and multiple colors. Then have to increase the cost to pay for all meetings and managers that were assigned to each feature.
…then later you add functionality to it like a right click…just deliver the Mx Mouse with Apple branding…and walk away.
…and if you design it for Apple Intelligence…retire.
…then later you add functionality to it like a right click…just deliver the Mx Mouse with Apple branding…and walk away.
…and if you design it for Apple Intelligence…retire.
I have a Logitech MX 3S mouse and MX Keys bought last year and I am happy with them.
You're replying 'nah' to something I never said. I never objected to the idea that there are certain applications where people prefer trackpads. That seems perfectly reasonable. These are the assertions to which I objected:
I used to have the same thought as you, a laptop is good enough for all day work and portable.
Until I near graduation, wrote and edited my entire dissertation on the laptop with trackpad. My fingers were shaking when I finished.
Please move the charging port to a normal location.
Also making sure macOS needs a valid password to login seems like a trivial project but High Sierra 10.13 allowed you to login without it.... That's the nowadays Apple my friend...
I hope they put Face ID in the mouse. Which you need to activate every time you want to use/move the mouse.
I only click on the comments to see the first couple of commenters be whiny babies. This hasn't changed in the 22 years I've been coming here. Like the guy who said "who uses a mouse these days?" lol like for real? I use a mouse for all the work I do. I'm a professional and I need that ish. Nerds think they're so superior sometimes.
I tried the MM a couple of years ago and while I loved functionality I knew in the first 5 minutes the ergonomics were an instant deal killer for me. Ended up with a Logitech M650-L which I love and it was only $30 on sale.
If the new MM has fixed the ergo I might give it a try but @ $100 it will be a tough sell.
If the new MM has fixed the ergo I might give it a try but @ $100 it will be a tough sell.
Get rid of the port and just support wireless charging. A charging mouse pad with mouse is pretty good.
I am just trying to get used to a Magic Mouse 1 (from a 2011 iMac) and 2 (from M3 iMac) on both my Macs (mini and iMac). I always hated them and used a different mouse from the beginning.
A scroll wheel always had been the most important thing for me and two visible buttons and the wheel as third button. Best would be if the wheel could also scroll sideways by pushing it to one side. But it seems since I skipped a few versions of macOS, none of the four new mice I have really work as they should.
Is there even a difference between the first and the second Magic Mouse? Except one accepts standard AA Batteries (what is great and lasts for ages) and the other one has this horrible charging port on the back. They look the same and feel the same in usage.
It annoys me that they often scroll sideways when I just want to scroll up or down, but otherwise scrolling works much better again finally. I also often forget my finger is still resting on the mouse, what was no problem on every other mouse but here it also scrolls without me wanting to.
Also BT is annoying unstable.
I just hope I somehow get used to those.
Or can someone recommend a good 3rd party "scroll in all directions wheel" mouse for Mac? Best would be one with cable only. Or a wireless that also works wired, without a charging light.
I have one with a 2.4GHz dongle and BT and you can choose what to turn on or just let both turned off and just use a USB-C cable. But it has this annoying light on the top when connected. It's blinking the whole time, when the battery is full. I already put dark tape over it, but that looked horrible and it also shines through on the sides a little, where other lights are, that I can turn completely off.
But that one of course also has the scrolling problems. Sideways not possible and up/down just bad somehow. I can't really explain.
Before I switched to the Apple mice now, I tried some fixing tools for my others that I lately found in a thread about those 3rd-party mouse problems, but nothing seemed to make anything better.
A scroll wheel always had been the most important thing for me and two visible buttons and the wheel as third button. Best would be if the wheel could also scroll sideways by pushing it to one side. But it seems since I skipped a few versions of macOS, none of the four new mice I have really work as they should.
Is there even a difference between the first and the second Magic Mouse? Except one accepts standard AA Batteries (what is great and lasts for ages) and the other one has this horrible charging port on the back. They look the same and feel the same in usage.
It annoys me that they often scroll sideways when I just want to scroll up or down, but otherwise scrolling works much better again finally. I also often forget my finger is still resting on the mouse, what was no problem on every other mouse but here it also scrolls without me wanting to.
Also BT is annoying unstable.
I just hope I somehow get used to those.
Or can someone recommend a good 3rd party "scroll in all directions wheel" mouse for Mac? Best would be one with cable only. Or a wireless that also works wired, without a charging light.
I have one with a 2.4GHz dongle and BT and you can choose what to turn on or just let both turned off and just use a USB-C cable. But it has this annoying light on the top when connected. It's blinking the whole time, when the battery is full. I already put dark tape over it, but that looked horrible and it also shines through on the sides a little, where other lights are, that I can turn completely off.
But that one of course also has the scrolling problems. Sideways not possible and up/down just bad somehow. I can't really explain.
Before I switched to the Apple mice now, I tried some fixing tools for my others that I lately found in a thread about those 3rd-party mouse problems, but nothing seemed to make anything better.
Hope the new shape is something closer to the old Pro Mouse/"Mouse"/Mighty Mouse's shape. They're way more comfortable with the way I hold the mouse compared to the Magic Mouse.
