Apple Bluetooth Wireless Mighty Mouse by Apple Computer
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Digital camera reviews of Apple Bluetooth Wireless Mighty Mouse
Digital camera Review: Excellent wireless mouse
Summary: 5 Stars
Works very well. Bluetooth capability allows USB ports to remain free for other peripherals. Easy to install, and also works when running Windows using Parallels on a MacBook (Intel) - automatically picked up by the VM without any problems. Easy to transport - I just put it in an old athletic sock (washed, of course) so that it doesn't get scratched up, and the mouse travels easily with me and my Mac.Digital camera Review: Expensive soap...
Summary: 3 Stars
I needed a mouse that doesn't occupy a USB port on my MacBook Pro since there are only two so the only possible solution was a bluetooth mouse. It wasn't a bad deal for $69 but it is still overpriced.
Pros:
- personally I like the design, look and feel of this mouse
- worked perfectly out of the box, no hassle with installation
- responsive, precise tracking
Cons:
- price (if you want cheaper BT mouse check out the Logitech V470 which is $40 only)
- the side buttons are not responsive
- right click is almost impossible, you have to learn how to do it and you can go up to 70% hit rate. If you want to use it on other surface than your desktop don't even bother with right click... If you really need this option (Windows on your Mac) better if you check out the above mentioned Logitech or others before you spend money on the Mighty Mouse.
Would I buy it again? No...
So I rate it only 3 stars...
Digital camera Review: Fragile and clumsy
Summary: 1 Stars
Pros: the scroll ball feels wonderful, and side-scrolling suddenly becomes an indispensible part of your day the minute you start using it. The mouse is a comfortable shape, and tracks well on any surface I've tried. Bluetooth works smoothly and easily. Battery life is decent (about 3 weeks of daily use.)
Cons: it's incredibly fragile. After only a month of use, the scroll ball can go in any direction but down, and there's no apparent way to clean it out. The right-click button is very fussy; about two times out of three when I try to right click it actually left-clicks instead. And the side squeeze buttons require too much force to use. You can understand why they did that: if they hadn't, the side buttons would trigger every time you picked up the mouse -- but as it is they're kind of useless: Too hard to use on purpose, too easy to use by accident.
Digital camera Review: Frank Lloyd Wright of Mice - Avoid it
Summary: 1 Stars
This mouse is the Frank Lloyd Wright of mice. Form over function. It looks cool. Its sleek. It doesn't work well.
The blue tooth constant looses connection and instantly recovers. Functionally it isn't too bad - visually expect to see the mouse dropped connection graphic on your screen a lot.
Its only a 3 button mouse. Left and right click are available via software and its smart enough to determine which side of the mouse you're clicking on.
The center button is horrible. Its the tiny mouse ball on top. Lot of reviews say it gets filled with crud and you cannot clean it out. The 4th button visually looks cool on the sides - however, they are the same button. They are very awkward to use.
I am much happier with my Logitech MX-10 that I brought over from my PC days. Logitech makes a Mac driver for that mouse that gives you a world of config options. It works wonderful. Its ergonomic where as this apple mouse may look sexy - but it under performs in about every way possible. Avoid it like the plague.
I thought - well perhaps I can make it a single click mouse and give it to my 3 year old for her games. She struggles with it as well.
Hopefully Apple with come out with an external touchpad for iMac's like the MacBook Pro has.
Digital camera Review: Get one!
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had none of the problems that others have described. I use this with my new Macbook, along with a wireless Mac keyboad, when using the Macbook as a desktop and it works great and has from the start. Set-up was a breeze and the battery life seems quite long (it shows that I still have full power and I"ve been using it since before Christmas and that's often leaving it on when not in use). It has a good "feel" in your hand and, at least so far, the right click has worked just fine. One minor problem that I HAVE had is that the downward scroll hasn't always worked well, but I consider that to be a fairly minor annoyance.