Comments on: Review: Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse

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By: Iz

Iz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:52:20 +0000

I have just bought a mighty mouse brand new. I m already experiencing problems in its usage. All bottons ( right click, left click, middle click & and side bottons) are all working perfectly. A soon as I move my mouse, the cursor doesn’t move ( I have tried all types of mouse pad & tracking speed is setup to the maximum).

Did (is) someone experienced (experiencing) the same problem ?

By: Vox Sephora

Vox Sephora — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:46:16 +0000

At first I thought I had the settings wrong, but I’m finding too that using this Wireless Mighty Mouse is very sluggish… like dragging it through pudding.
I think I’ll stick to my Logitech wireless mice, different versions, of which, I’ve had for at least 10 years.

By: Steven Starace

Steven Starace — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:43:17 +0000

I have 2 bluetooth mm’s. I find them barely acceptable when just using my Macbook pro 17″ screen, but when plugged into the Apple Cinema 23″ or my Viewsonic 22″, it feels like I’m playing pool with a rope. I notice a huge difference when plugging in a wired optical mouse when using the larger monitors. I see others agree, so maybe I’ll go back to the wired mouse – I am also using an Apple wireless keyboard with the external monitors, I wonder if 2 devices are straining the bluetooth?

By: matias macias

matias macias — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:26:36 +0000

can’t say I agree with the post… cause I am disappointed with the mouse and I’ve been using it for months my biggest disappointment is with the wheel the down scroll never worked well and always needed to be cleaned and one day just broke (and believe me with out down the whole thing is useless and annoying) lifting your left finger to right click is annoying at times but often times goes unnoticed…. mouse reviews are either hit or miss cause they all do what you want them to do but small problems can ruin the whole thing

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:42:35 +0000

I wish they made the apple mouse (formerly apple pro mouse) with the scroll ball and extra buttons. I prefer the transparent and white look over the milk white look. I use my fingertips to click with my apple mouse. It’s acurate enough for me. All I lose when using pro software like flash 8 and fireworks 8 is a couple of seconds. scrolling and clicking isn’t a race.

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:36:27 +0000

I’ve always loved Apple design not because it looks so good (which it coincidentally almost always does), but because they always seem to think things through from the view of the actual user. I don’t have a wireless MM, but have been using MMs for years, and love them esp for the one single ergonomic breakthrough they made with this product. See, mice almost always demand that to click you have to put pressure on a specific spot on the mouse, usually an index finger. This makes my finger ache. In fact, I used a Kensignton mouse for awhile because my MM broke. (They’re made by humans, nothing’s perfect.)
After only a day or two I stole a MM from someone else in the office (a group machine I think), becuase the pain in my “click” finger was just intolerable.
To click with MM, I can use the weight of my entire hand–just slightly—slightly—lifting the right side to left-click, honestly, no burden at all.
The genius of the Apple mouse design is that the entire mouse is the button! Click (and hold?) with your index finger, or another finger, switch off, use your whole hand.
No other mouse can claim this: a mouse you can click in any way YOU need to to be comfortable. Which makes sense, because Apple products almost always c ome closest to letting you use it the way you want–rather that training you to use it the way you want.
(It’s still a computer guys…you’ll still have to follow SOME rules! Even Apple FORCES you to…look at the screen!)
The Apple Mouse design is a quiet breakthrough that eludes many with the very subtlety of its genius.
Jeff
PS: In actual user tests, people INSIST they get “more done” with two-button mice. The tests invariably show that, no matter what the user reports, they are wrong: they get more done with only ONE button! And even *I* still use two-buttons! humans!

By: james heath

james heath — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:20:33 +0000

this is really a great little piece of hardware. i use it with my macbook and i need portability so this is the perfect mouse for the job. i have only been using this for about two weeks so i cannot comment on weather or not the scroll-ball will hold out but so far it is working perfectly. i have found no problems, as long as you turn the mouse on before you turn the mac on, or else it doesn’t tend to recognize the mouse but if you scan for bluetooth devices, which takes a matter of seconds, it soon picks it up.
i would recommend this mouse to anyone who is looking for a portable mouse which works well with macs.

By: John

John — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:03:31 +0000

The right click really stinks. I have had 10 of these mice and all of them do not right click well. Got some replaced, but that did not make a diff.

By: Ine Gundersveen

Ine Gundersveen — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:47:52 +0000

I’m beginning to hate it. The scroll function only works sideways and down now, and there is no way of cleaning it. An excessive price for a single-use product.

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 07 May 2007 03:32:48 +0000

I found this blog entry through a blingo/google search… was disappointed to find that I’d lose right-clickability from the comments here. However, I tried reconnecting a spare wired Mighty Mouse, tested the right clicking with it, and then re-synched the wireless MMouse… success! So perhaps those that lost the Secondary Click option, find a way to plug in a 2-button mouse to reclaim the Secondary Clicking. Hope this helps!

By: Giles Jones

Giles Jones — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:26:09 +0000

I bought one today, it’s not a very ergonomic design, my arm aches. The tracking is way slow, the side buttons require a lot of force to press and the right click is fiddly.

Apple are no good at mice. It’s an input device, not an ornament. How would they design a pen? make it round like a crystal ball probably.

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By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:58:18 +0000

I like the mouse and as I have two iMacs and a MacBook Pro I have 3 “Mice” two of which are the wireless versions. In short order both wireless mice gave me problems with the scroll ball. Scrolling up only or not at all. I was ready to toss them in the trash when I read a review on cleaning them. I put a little Isopropyl alcohol 91% on my fingertip and rolled the scroll ball around for a while. Magically I saw some dirt appear on top of the mouse which was wiped off. After a couple of applications the scroll ball’s work perfectly on both mice.

By: Chunk Ahoy

Chunk Ahoy — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:09:06 +0000

I personnaly don’t have any problem with the weight but this mouse is not as responsive as a wired one.
In fact, no where close. It is no placebo effect beleive me.
I have had many regular logitech wired mouse and i still have a wired Razer Copperhead.
I feel that bluetooth simply isn’t the right way to comunicate for a wireless mouse.
The cursor moves with a high response time (lag) and is choppy at times.
I’m selling my mighty mouse.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:14:40 +0000

Hello, I have an apple wireless mouse, but unfortunately I cannot use o my new intel Mac Book……as I have lost the disk that came with the mouse, the software to run it.
Can anyone refer me to a site where I can download this software for free, or can someone please post me a copy???!!!

thank you and regards
Daniel

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:56:49 +0000

I bought a Mighty Mouse 3 months ago and let it sit for a month or 2 and when the macbook came out I bought one and used the mouse with it and now the scroll ball scrolls in any direction execpt down.I would recommend it to anybody that has a mac .

By: MARTIN

MARTIN — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:48:33 +0000

I bought might wireless like 1.5 months ago, I don’t have a problem with right click at all, don’t have a problem with scroll ball YET :), but the big problem is the bluetooth connection I think, sometimes it slows down very much, kind of lags few seconds to the new position, I thought it was a battery issue so I replaced them so many times but it didn’t help much, then I started reading forums and a lot of poeple complain for the same problem, I have powerbook intel based and the wireless mouse drives me crazy sometimes, especially when you need to do something fast, you know “when you need it”, so maybe someone have any idea why that happenes, I don’t think swap will help if so many people have the same problem.
Any idea?
martin@esarchitects.us
Thank you

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:51:51 +0000

Save your money, don’t waste it on this crap. Wireless Mighty Mouse is the biggest mistake I made on buying Apple product. This made me really lose my faith in Apple. I cannot believe they continue to keep this thing on market even with its obviously defective design. The 2 side buttons are a pain to activate, the right click does not work, the scroll ball often needs special cleaning.
The biggest problem is the right click issue; which I think is the ONE REASON why you should NOT buy this thing. It is not individual defect. The right clicking function seem to decay over the course of time. When you first activate the mouse, the right click will work most of the time, almost 100% of the time if you do it properly (lift your index finger that’s touching the left button; which in itself is a defective design if you ask me). After few mins or hours, it starts to become less reliable to use right clicking, eventually becoming unable to use right click at all unless you reset it again.
I’ve been using my old wired logitech mouse which is 100 times more reliable than this $70 piece of trash.

By: Siebe

Siebe — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:28:12 +0000

I bought the nice BT Mighty Mouse to work on my hardened glass desk, it doesn’t!
I will have to find some plastic to glue on the surface of my desk as I don’t want to use mouse mat.
Side buttons too havy to my taste.

By: rcpmac

rcpmac — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:16:35 +0000

WOW! From the above pictures it appears the Wireless MightyMouse is available in 3 flavors – Maple, Strawberry Cream, and Cappachino. Yummm.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:14:20 +0000

I really need a copy of the Software CD for the wireless migthy mouse. I got WMM with my new MAc Pro, but no CD. So it won’t work right with my lpatop. Without the software drivers, it is just like any other bluetooth mouse. I can’t see the battery level, I can’t use the side buttons or the middle button. I can’t even adjust the horizontal scrolling. It works just with the genric driver.

Apple doesn’t have CD’s on the website and won’t send me a dmg or iso. IT is sooo annoying that they don’t put drivers online!

By: terminalwest

terminalwest — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:56:29 +0000

No, I don’t go into SysPref. Too scary.

By: fastred

fastred — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:40:11 +0000

Terminal west – have you adjusted the tracking speed? :)

By: terminalwest

terminalwest — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:08:26 +0000

Apple’s mice are too slow. Wayyyyyy too slow. You shouldn’t have to pick up your mouse just to move from one corner of the screen to the other. This is one area where Windows is just better. USBoverdrive makes my apple mouse usable…but that wouldn’t work on this BT mouse, would it?

Does anyone else find the speed and strange acceleration/decceleration terrible?