Mighty Mouse: First thoughts

By Scott McNulty

I haven't been this excited about a mouse since I bought one of the first optical mice that Microsoft made available (and paid much too much for it). The Mighty Mouse for Apple looks very cool, despite the silly name.

C.K. pretty much covered my initial reaction, but I calmed down and took a look at the tech specs and found some interesting things:

  • The buttons are only customizable in Tiger (though you can use it with other OS's) in addition to get the most customizability out of the mouse you need to be on 10.4.2 or later
  • It has a built in speaker that gives you audible feedback when you click and scroll (no word on whether you can turn this off)
  • The two side buttons are really only one button (you can program them, but they have to do the same thing) that you squeeze
  • According to Apple the Scrollball is 'the tiniest such mechanism ever used in an input device.' I guess that's good.

All in all, this unexpected little Apple product is pretty cool and you can bet that I will be the owner of one in fairly short order.
 

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