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"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."]]>Jul 25th 2006 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
I have to believe that the only reason anyone would praise this thing, is because it has an Apple logo on it, and thats just sad.]]>Jul 25th 2006 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
I really don't understand where the complaints are coming from. If you've never used one, don't let the naysayers dissuade you - try it for yourself, and make sure you check the config settings so that everything works the way you'd like it to.

It really is a great mouse - I'm ordering two of the bluetooth models. ]]>Jul 25th 2006 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
]]>Jul 25th 2006 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/I bought one when I got osx running on my pc. WEIRD!!! I totally had to retrain my hand. you can't double click with both fingers touching the mouse. you have to right mouse button finger to left click, and lift the left mouse button finger to right click, aaaarrrggghhhh.

i took it back]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
I love the design of it, but wish they would use pressure sensitivity or something instead of the current solution to solve this problem.]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
ergonomics]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/I find my mighty mouse very comfortable, and playing for an hours is hardly time to test anything]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
The Scrollball on the mouse is amazing. When I have to sit at someone else's machine and use a scrollwheel mouse, I feel like something is missing.

]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
I highly doubt the wireless Mighty Mouse has been available at Fry's for over three months.]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
Now I like the Mighty Mouse a _lot_ more - for two functionality reasons;

First - all the other tracking devices I have tried would not scroll windows in Mail and MYOB. I use these programs a lot and I was always frustrated by having to use the scroll bar. The Mighty Mouse accomplishes this task with ease. It seems like it will scroll any sub-window I am in.

Second - When I click with the scroll button in Firefox (but not Safari)I get a nifty little crosshair-kind of deal that turns the whole mouse into the scrolling controller. If I want to scan a long page I can set it to auto-scroll slowly and not think any more about it.

I agree that the auxiliary buttons are klunky to use. I have been using Mac one-button devices my whole computing life so I don't miss the right-click. But the scrolling implementation has made this the mouse for me. Ordering the wireless today.]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
I don't know about you, but there's no way in hell I'd pay $69 for a freaking mouse... $69 is a gig of ram or a sempron 64 etc etc etc]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
So I then ordered the "actual" wired mighty mouse online. Got it home and I've used it on both my PC laptop and my apple macbook pro. To be honest, my Microsoft wired laser mouse that I've had for over five years works better than this thing. It's like they haven't perfected the art of laser tracking or something.

The only thing the mighty mouse does well is the side-to-side scrolling. Which, by the way, only works on the macbook.

So now they release a wireless version, and you know what? I'm probably going to buy it. I'm that big of a sucker. I hate myself sometimes.]]>Jul 25th 2006 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
You can find ADB adapters. Check out this site:

http://www.welovemacs.com/adapters-adb-adapters.html

Also check out this awesome project to convert a classic ADB Apple mouse to optical and USB:

http://www.command-tab.com/2005/03/28/apple-adb-mouse-conversion/

For the record I received a mighty mouse in the box when I bought my new iMac. However, I still use my old Apple Bluetooth mouse because I prefer wireless. I am considering buying the BT Mighty Mouse to gain the advantage of laser over standard optical with the bonus of the scroll ball. I would likely turn off all the other functions and leave the Might Mouse a one button mouse. I know, I know, I am one of those single button advocates. I really do prefer the combination of the single click and keyboard activators and short cuts. The nice advantage with the BT Mighty Mouse is having the option to turn on the extra buttons for playing games and the like.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/I Love love love my mighty mouse]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
Yeah and Apple decided hey screw those people we're not putting it on our website or in our stores.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
The MX1000 is THE mouse if you want a laser mouse, if you want to go cheaper the MX500 series is the ones to get!]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
If you found the hockey-puck mouse comfortable...you must have extraordinarily tiny and awkwardly sized hands. If even almighty Apple didn't keep that design, you know it was bad.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
http://shop4.outpost.com/{V41oADMG81gj5YN4TcNZXA**.node1}/product/3857307;jsessionid=V41oADMG81gj5YN4TcNZXA**.node1?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

take a look at that link. ALREADY FOR SALE!! I bought one a few months ago, remember, I said I took it back? Bluetooth, optical.

There is only one fry's in Austin, and, of course, they are out of stock, but I did steal the pricetag off of the shelf. apple wireless mouse, 59 bucks.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
You're a complete moron. That Apple's STANDARD wireless mouse. NOT the Mighty Mouse, jackass. That has no "second button", no scroll ball. It's just a one button, wireless mouse.

READ.

The mouse we're talking about has 4 buttons and a scroll ball.

Jackass.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
I like your style.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/I'm 6'2" tall, wear size 13 shoes and have ginormous sized hands. The thing is. I don't try fill my hand with the mouse. trying to fit the whole thing into the palm of your hand is not the way to use the thing. Thats why mouse manufacturers only make one size fits all mice. If these so called ergonomic mice that are out on the market were truely ergonomic and meant to fit the exact contours of your personal hand, then they would have to take a plaster cast of your and in the exact position that it should be in and make a one of a kind mouse shaped just for you. I don;t think mouse manufacturers are willing to do that. That's why I liked the hockey puck. is was exactly the size it needed to be since all you're supposed to do is hold it with your fingers. Go to any RSI website and they'll all tell you the same thing. Hold the mouse delicately as though you were holding a baby chick. If you feel like you really have to fill your whole hand with a mouse, then thats your call. I've never found one that will fill mine and that's probably why I learned how to use a mouse the right way to begin with. ]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
The scrollball at first is the best thing you'll ever use, however as soon as it get's dirty, and it will believe me, this mouse becomes close to the most annoying mankind has ever experienced.

Here's a pic. from an Apple patent from 2004: http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12295&d=1079559549

The Scrollball is replaced with a small touchpad for scrolling that cannot get dirty. Here's to hoping they implement this shizel soon]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
Most people use their middle finger to hit the 2 button, when in fact mice are designed for you to use your ring finger. Using your middle finger tilts your entire hand to the right (if you are right handed)creating strain on the ligaments in your wrist and elbow.

The back of your hand when using a mouse should be facing straight upwards, with your three fingers evenly distributed across the surface. Your thumb should be on the side of the mouse, slightly touching the desk surface.

I will admit though that a lot of the computer problems in the work place are just as much a fault of the desk and chair design as the mouse. If your chair is too low, or desk too high then you can properly adjust your arm to sit above the mouse.

Some products like the MS mice seem to promote poor posture by tilting the entire mouse sruface to the right. While a good idea in theory, for it to really work it would nee to completely tilt the hand to the right in essance making your hand shape as if you were holding a glass of water.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
Why thank you.]]>Jul 25th 2006 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
left handed people]]>Jul 25th 2006 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
$69 is acceptable for full-sized multibutton Bluetooth mouse with a laser diode pickup.

Show me another manufacturer that produces a wireless bluetooth laser mouse. I can think of wireless bluetooth mice (though the vast majority are notebook-sized) and I can think of wireless laser mice without bluetooth (requiring a USB RF dongle), but I know of no mouse that matches this new mouse.

(actually, I know of ONE, made by Logitech - the bluetooth MX1000 - which is only available as part of a $200+ keyboard/mouse combo for which there is no Mac support). ]]>Jul 25th 2006 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/K]]>Jul 25th 2006 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/Jul 25th 2006 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
"Mouse ergonomics" is a fallacy. the vast majority of computer users (mouse users) keep the tips of their fingers on the mouse, and their palm on the table (mouse surface).


All the fancy swooping and positioning logitech/MS/etc design their mice to "feel comfortable" as a selling point, but offer no actual benefit to use.

that being said, i love my Mx510, and i DO think if "Feels great"

but at the same time, when i use a might mouse at work, truth be told, it's 100% as comfortable and productive once i get my mind off it. any discomfort is totally psychosomatic.

anyway, wireless. woohoo. my mouse stays within 10 feet of my box. i even own a few old bluetooth mice, and i've never freaking use them. what the hell is the point? oohhhh wires are so out of fashion! i want to replace batteries all the time so i dont get strangled by the jungles of wires coming out of my mouse! there has to be a better way!! :P]]>Jul 25th 2006 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/25/bluetooth-mighty-mouse-already-available/
Arent you the same people who say the Zune is going to fail without ever using it?

"All you people who are having "Pains" when you use a mighty mouse are just looking for ANYTHING to complain about. First of all, learn how to properly use a mouse."

Just like a Fanboy. Blame everyone else for not "getting it". So I guess we should all just bend over and accept this holy mouse, right?]]>Jul 25th 2006 2:35PM