Mighty Mouse Review
August 16, 2005I bought a Mighty Mouse on Friday. It took a day to get use to it, and now I like it very much. The small ball gives you a feeling of precise control that I didn’t feel with a big scroll wheel.
My previous mouse was a basic Logitech 2 button with a scroll wheel. The Mighty Mouse adds another button (the side buttons). This is great for popping up Dashboard.
The software just replaces the Mouse and Keyboard pref pane. Painless install, and works as expected.
For $49 it’s fairly cheap. I don’t mind that it’s not wireless. My previous mouse wasn’t wireless and I never had problems. The cord always stays out of the way, so I really don’t see any advantage to wireless. I don’t want to deal with batteries or charging a wireless mouse.
My recommendation: Buy it!
Posted by sgehrman at August 16, 2005 5:28 PMComments
Well, I only played with one for 15 minutes. Can you believe in the whole San Francisco Apple Store, they only had one on the floor to try out?! Anyway, in that short time, it seemed to me that I had to bend my index finger back rather far to operate the track ball, expecially when trying to scroll sideways. I expect RSI problems, but maybe my hands are too big. The Apple mice are not exactly ergonomic pace setters. Also, the roller ball didn't seem to handle diagonal movement too well and seemed to require a lot of rolling to get down a long web page. And what about cleaning? The hidden left and right buttons are cool though. I'll wait for a Bluetooth version to consider it again.
I just got a Mighty Mouse with my new G5 and well, I'm not very impressed. Must say I wouldn't recommend a Mighty Mouse to any sane person, sadly.
1. The mouse "lays" in the hand much worse than my old Logtech MX300
2. The right mousebutton becomes somewhat useless since you CAN'T have any finger on the left button when pushing it…
3. The "squeeze" feature is quite hard to activate when you want and quite easy to activate when you don't what to…
4. The scroll wheel is small and placed to far back on the mouse consoll.
I'd say it's an adiqute mouse to get bundled with a system, but it is by no means replancement for my good "old" MX300 (which in a case is a low-end mouse).
Perhaps it works better for people with really small hands or something - it don't work for me (and I do have quite small hands…)
I'd rate mighty mouse at about 2 or 3 out of 5 stars.
I agree. Just bought one today and I immediately noticed what you did about the perceived accuracy of the ball. Not only that but the software does a wonderful job anticipating your need for fine accurate scrolling and fast page-down type of scrolling.
I agree buy it.