Apple Mighty Mouse Kit by Apple Computer
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Digital camera reviews of Apple Mighty Mouse Kit
Digital camera Review: Great way to replace a mouse
Summary: 5 Stars
I would just trust Amazon over Ebay these days for buying a hardly used refurbed mightmouse when mine lost its tail. It worked for me.Digital camera Review: Great, if it's what you're looking for....
Summary: 5 Stars
Beware that this corded version is made with an iMacs keyboard in mind, so the cord is very short. If you're looking for a mouse for your Macbook, go with the wireless version.Digital camera Review: Horrible 2-button mouse design
Summary: 1 Stars
I have been using Apple computers for 15 years, and I love them.
However, in my organization (95% Macs) when I go to another staff member's computer and have to use their Mighty Mouse, that is when the trouble starts.
Using a mouse (one of the primary input devices for the computer) should be INTUITIVE, and unfortunately, having used many, many mouses over the years, Apple's Mighty Mouse is the ONLY one I have problems with - consistently every time over and over during the same session of using it. I constantly have to be thinking about not touching the mouse where it doesn't want to be touched, and since it's a single housed unit, there is no physical feedback (like on other 2-button mouses) to clue me in on my finger positions.
The mouse is not something a person should have to adapt to when using a computer. Period.
The deficiencies in the Mighty Mouse could easily be addresses without sabotaging the extra features. However, Apple's penchant for having elegant aesthetic design has overruled productivity by refusing to actually have a physical separation between the two buttons on the mouse, which is really all I object to (the lack of design feedback as to where my fingers are). I don't see how making two actual buttons on the mouse would hurt anything except some designer who wants a clean, line-free mouse.
Add in that apple gives you a free one-button mouse (thanks for living in the 80s) and makes you buy a two-button one at significant cost, I can't help feeling that Apple has been the worst hardware maker of mice for the past 20 years.
...to the point where I end up writing a review like this about a company I normally praise.
Don't even mention the horrible mouse they made for the original iMac that was round (probably looked pretty to the designer) but most users couldn't FEEL if the round mouse was pointed straight up, rotated left, etc.
I give Apple ZERO points for any of their mouse designs throughout their history; which is pretty shocking considering that the Mac was the first popular computer to use a mouse as an input device.
BTW, Apple has no way on their Web site for me to provide user feedback, and thus Amazon becomes the forum for advice to future shoppers.
Digital camera Review: Horrible mouse
Summary: 1 Stars
Do not be affected by the outer beauty of this mouse. It is the worst mouse I ever seen. Buttons can not be pressed together, buttons are not distinguished, so you press right button and the left get pressed instead. Imagine selecting huge piece of text and then press the right button for options, and the left got pressed and you lose all the selected text. The scroll is awful, as it simply cannot be used after few days. Cleaning it is simply impossible to do. My might mouse now lives with the mice in garbage.Digital camera Review: I guess they had to make it different...
Summary: 2 Stars
I'll be brief here.
Pros: integration with the OS, cool looks, nice feel of that little ball massaging your finger. And, yes, almost forgot - finally an "official" Apple mouse with right click!
Cons: 1) at least in my unit, right clicking too often produces a left click; 2) for my fingers, the "side squeeze" is awkward; 3) after ~ a year, the little ball quit working for scrolling down (still works for scrolling up). There is no obvious way to open the mouse up for cleaning - and it is a good moment to note that I am a tidy person who won't sit typing and mousing with his hands greasy... It is probably discussed on all those forums how to clean a mighty mouse, but I guess I'll just get another Logitech mouse.
I am an enthusiastic Mac user but hardly a fanboy. 2 stars for this one.