Mighty Mouse review roundup

Aight, the reviews of the, um, interestingly-named Apple Mighty Mouse are starting to come in. If you spot any others, please let us know up in the comments, k?

• Read - Russell Beattie

• Read - Macteens

• Read - White Girl Suicide Bomber

• Read - Macrumours forums

• Read - theory.isthereason

• Read - Macworld first impressions

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

hey, narco--

i'm slightly sick of your 'fishes, narco' thing (which you use on every one of your comments, on every blog that you post to). please stop wasting those three or four lines of my screen.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

hey, narco--

i'm happy with your 'fishes,narco' thing (it is the same old negative and narrowminded comments that i am sick of). please keep sharing your thoughts and not worrying about the trolls.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Post #39, you actually could not be more wrong! The invention of the mouse was long before Apple was even a company, and had absolutely nothing to do with the Xerox PARC. It was invented at Stanford Univiersity by a man named Douglas C. Engelbart. Also, Apple like just about every personal computer company, was really late to the internet game, as it was the almost exclusive domain of Sun and HP servers for many years before it ever became popular enough for anyone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs to even notice it existed.

Please, if you like a company, don't just invent fictious history to make them sound wonderful, because it just makes you look like an idiot, and proves everything anyone might say about the unreasoning nature of Apple fanboys.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

I played with, did not buy it. I was unimpressed. The scroll button is a lot like what many laptops of old with the �eraser� button in the middle of the keyboard. I review on my blog at http://www.reelsmart.com

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

I think the slash/dot "grumps" migrated here to Engadget. Makes sense since slash/dot seems to be Apple friendly now days.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Of course Slashdot is Apple friendly now. It's all about the Unix isn't it? Thought so.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

#52... those "eraser" buttons of "old" are not out of style. Brand new IBM thinkpad still has the trackpoint button, and I still find it intuitive...

But the button on the new Apple mouse is not like that. It's actually a ball that rolls around, not a nub that you push on.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

'm happy with your 'fishes,narco' thing (it is the same old negative and narrowminded comments that i am sick of). (please keep sharing your thoughts and not worrying about the trolls.) I'll agree with nate. Its pretty lame. Signatures in gen. are lame

Recognize,
carson

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

An accurate review:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/rspeed/124596.html

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

IMO a good take on the whole situation.
http://www.billpalmer.net/2005/08/mighty-mouse-still-very-much-one.html
Bill is almost always right on.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Post 52: My history was not "fictious." While Englebert did invent the concept of using X and Y coordinates on a plain and using a pointing device to navigate this 2D environment, it was Apple that popularized the use of the mouse. In addition, I did not mention anythign about the internet you bafoon. Of course Apple was not the first to the internet game. I was saying (please try to follow my reasoning if you can) that because Apple popularized both the mouse and the personal computer then THAT is why even Apple haters have to at least acknowledge that their use of the mouse in its present form has direct links to Apple. Think before you type dick.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

So the reviews reveal that this is actually *gasp* just a mouse! Amazing!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

what a shite mouse

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

#60 Apple popularized the personal computer with (gasp) a command line machine called the Apple II. Ever since the release of the Mac, their market share has pretty steadily fallen.

The mouse existed long before Apple started using it, and was used in CAD and graphics packages on UNIX Workstations before Apple had even failed miserably to launch the Lisa. Your implication that somehow the very concept of the GUI was some sort of Apple invention is assinine. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and many other people were invited to Xerox PARC to see a showing of their new GUI based OS, and they all went away saying "that is a neat idea, I'm going to have some people get to work on that." Apple was the first to get an OS with a GUI out to market, but that doesn't mean they were the first company to ever use a GUI. AT&T Graphics Software Labs (the people who invented the first image capture card, the first video capture card, as well as the first 24-but true color card) had several high end graphics applications out for DOS that used GUIs and a mouse or tablet before the Mac was ever to market. Lotus 1-2-3 was actually the first mass-market product out to use a GUI a full year before the Mac.

Were you even alive when all this happened, or are you just spouting some drivel you have been handed by other macheads? Ever since Woz was out of the picture, Apple's only innovation has been in the marketing department. They just steal ideas from what is happening in the world around them, just like Microsoft. The only reason anyone is dumb enough to think either of them innovate at all, is because they take the relatively obscure work being done by people at the high end of the computer market, and mainstream it, screaming about how they were the first people in the world to ever think of it.

Just so you know, here are a few more things that Apple was NOT the first to create:

The first photo editing program
The first vector drawing program
The first layout program
The first 3D program
The first animation program
The first sound editing program
The first compositing program
The first MP3 player with a harddrive

Apple might have made the first version of these programs that you could afford, but that doesn't make them the first. Apple is not Cray, or SGI, or even IBM. The actual number of groundbreaking products they have ever produced is pretty small. What they are good at is marketing, and that is obviously what you are a sucker for.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

MacDailyNews has a detailed hands-on Mighty Mouse review:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments_opinion/6456/

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

I purchased Mighty Mouse for all the PCs in our office. Now I want to find a driver (hack?) that supports horizontal scrolling with this product. Anyone care to write one?

Seriously: I've seen so many Microsoft mice in front of Apple computers that I thought it would be great to reverse the trend.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Appleinsider:

http://www.appleinsider.com/review.php?id=3

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

"the mouse works like the long transparent optical one. Where you dont 'click' a button, rather you depress the whole body of the mouse."

Dude, your wrong, it's the same tech as the click wheel "wheres your finger at".. could be a problem as i rest two fingers on the shell of my single button..

One thought though.. Program both top buttons for left click.. the side buttons for right click and the ball as is.. job done.. who launches apps from there mouse anyways?? sounds like a pain to me as you'll keep doing it by accident.

I like this mouse.. just waiting for the bluetooth one to appear.. it's coming.. it must be!!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Oh man, another apple product entry and a load of trolls posting "comments" that make my brain hurt.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Here's mine:

http://freewebs.com/mymightymouse