Apple's MightyMouse

[Raichu Mistress]

http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/

Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze.
Spry and Mighty

In the beginning, there was one button. Then there were two. Then there were clickable scroll wheels and programmable toggles and solid-state slides. But nobody made a mouse as easy to use as your Mac. Until now. Mighty Mouse combines the capability of a multibutton mouse with Apple’s signature top-shell design for the best of both form and function. Use it any way you work: Stick with single-button simplicity or click with multibutton efficiency.
Get Around

Time is round. Space is curved. Why should your mouse be linear? Plenty of applications require you to do more than scroll up and down. Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability, thanks to its Scroll Ball, perfectly positioned to roll smoothly under just one finger. Explore the farthest reaches of your files — pan images in iPhoto, view timelines in iMovie HD and Final Cut Pro, traverse bars in GarageBand and Logic Pro — with one hand tied behind your back (or holding a cup of coffee or typing). Mighty Mouse gives you room to roam.
You’ll Really Click

Touch-sensitive technology under Mighty Mouse’s seamless top shell detect where you’re clicking, transforming your sleek, one-button mouse into a two-button wonder. But the innovation doesn’t end there. Apple engineers added force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse that let you squeeze the mouse between your thumb and finger, activating Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard, Exposé or a whole host of other, customizable features — instantly.
The Mouse That Roared

Unlike any other mouse on the market, Mighty Mouse was designed specifically to work with Mac OS X Tiger. Up-to-the minute information on Dashboard is only a click away. Viewing, hiding and selecting your windows via Exposé is just as simple. And because Mac OS X Tiger makes Mighty Mouse programmable, you choose where every click takes you.

Wow, that looks kinda cool, but I can do most of that on my PC mouse that came with my computer 4 years ago. Is Apple a tad behind?

 

[Alabaster.j.cat]

This is more suited or house of Spam...Nothing to really debate.

 

[Zhen Lin]

It's not what it can do but how it is done, with Apple - there are no buttons to be seen, the left and right click operates by touch sensing, the scroll wheel is an omnidirectional scroll ball...

 

[bell02+]

I don't know what exactly is being debated but I hate the one-click apple mice. They are horrible for almost anything (IMO): internet browsing, art, using applications, games. URG!

This mouse looks pretty cool though, but the appearance of the one click gives the same feeling .

 

[evkl]

Apple always does things differently. If one is a Mac user all of one's life, it doesn't matter that a mouse is a one-button, but to most windows user, any mouse without two buttons and a scroll wheel is alien--and preferably, it has a few more buttons to do other worthless functions.

Apple is getting with the now-increased need to work a mouse which can handle multiple jobs in a single application (by giving it multiple buttons with which it can handle said jobs.)

 

[Zhen Lin]

Though Apple being Apple, everything can still be done using one mouse button, probably.

 

[PlatinumHawke]

I don't know what exactly is being debated but I hate the one-click apple mice. They are horrible for almost anything (IMO): internet browsing, art, using applications, games. URG!

...despite the fact that most 2-button mice use the left-click button for almost 90% of it's functionality. And even then the "right click" toggle is planted right were your hand usually rests when using the mouse, so it's not as if you have to go more out of the way than to do a capitialization or something..

 

[Kasumi]

As a Mac user I have to say the one button mouse is pretty comfortable. But then again, I must be biased because I prefer macs over PCs.

 

[Zhen Lin]

It looks like a one-button mouse... no, a zero-button mouse, and in reality has four (five?) buttons...

Ars Technica gives it a quite good review.

 

[Trip]

I used an Apple for about 15 minutes a few weeks ago. I have never been so lost in an operating system. I never thought I could be so confused by a UNIX-BASED OS (considering I'm running Fedora Core 4 Linux!).

It's about time Apple got with the program and did something other than that awful one-button mouse. Instead of being able to right-click on my USB disk to eject it or going into a command line and typing "umount /dev/sda1", I had to search for about a minute and a half until I found the 'eject' command under File.

The one-button mouse makes sense for only the simplest user--the grandpa who doesn't understand the two-button mouse (I've met people like that). Most users of the Mac seem to be involved with graphics and video, and don't fit that bill.

Now might not be the best time to mention that I haven't read any of the articles/reviews of the new mouse yet, but still. My point remains.

- Trip

 

[Zhen Lin]

Errr.... you could have just trashed the whole disk (as in drag to trash) to eject. (If you start dragging a disk, the trash icon will turn into an eject icon to remind you.) [But this is not entirely intuitive, I'll admit that.]

Or you could have summoned the context menu with Control+Click. [This one definitely has to be learnt.] [But then again, the right button also has to be learnt.]

Certainly, you could have tried to unmount from the command line. (Terminal is located in /Applications/Utilities. The command required is unmount /.Volumes/xyz, where xyz is the name of the volume.)

But I think it's a mistaken stereotype - most Mac users are not graphics or video professionals... though it certainly seems that way.

One thing you need to keep in mind when using any different OS: it's not the same, don't expect it to be the same everywhere. But I'm sure you knew that from using Linux.

 

[bell02+]

No, one of my first computers were a mac, and I still like them now, but I hate the default mouse. To tell you the truth I actually use the Right button 40-50% for appications or use short cuts because I don't like to do things slowly and I multitask.

When ever I use photo shop or something, I like having to handle through both colors at the same time, I actually wish I could set one to erase. The thing I don't like about the oneclicks is that everything is either a multiple click or a dragging function, and I just don't like it.

I'm pretty lazy..

 

[tyger]

err... It's not a 1 button mouse though.

there was a post on /. in the mighty mouse topic about how the level of intelligence is connected to the number of buttons on the mouse

foolish - 1 button mouse on macs
average - 2 button mouses on win
intelligent - 3 button mouses on unix machines
~

so can we say that with the mighty mouse we transcend intelligence, because it is a 0-button mouse.

and I rather like the mighty mouse actually. The omnidirectional scroll function is a very nice use and as always apple is making sure to have it be function across systems.

PLus I"m an asthetic-whore. =)