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The New Mighty Mouse: The Magic Mouse From Apple
- alanthonyc 17y agoThis is the one. Ever since I got my MacBook, I have been hesitant to use any other kind of computer - even a desktop iMac - solely because of the lack of multi-touch support. I always wondered why Apple never came out with a separate touchpad, now I know why. I'm going to test it out at the store tonight.
- unalone 17y agoI'd like to know your thoughts on it.
- alanthonyc 17y agoWill have to do it tomorrow, had to stay late at work.
- alanthonyc 17y agoWell, I stopped by the store today, but they don't have any samples yet. They will have the new iMacs on display tomorrow, so I'll be able to really try it then.
- andyking 17y agoThe "new Mighty Mouse"? The Mighty Mouse was awful - this looks significantly better with no silly little scrolly ball thing to get clogged up and stop working after six months.
- rimantas 17y agoThe funny thing is that both of my Mighty Mouses did last six month before they got clogged uncleanably.
- noisebleed 17y agoThe apparent lack of middle click is pretty much a deal breaker for me.. I find it too useful for tabbed browsing. Shame, everything else about it looks pretty good.
- elblanco 17y agoand scrolling documents and adding another axis of manipulation in apps (like google earth), and bunches of other things.
- catch23 17y agowhere does it say it doesn't support the middle button? It's technically a multi-touch pad on top so it could detect when you want a middle mouse button click. It could technically detect 5 buttons on top of the mouse... Also, back in the old linux days when most PCs only had 2 mouse buttons, people could click with both buttons to emulate the middle button. This was a standard option in the xfree86.config file. I would imagine something like this would be possible if the mouse can detect 5 independent touches on the pad.
- lurkinggrue 17y agoDeal breaker for me is the lack of a clickly scroll wheel.
- catch23 17y agoThe best part is that it uses normal AA batteries. I hate the rechargeable mice that come with a specific recharger. When you're low you can't immediately recharge it and there are times when you forget and really need to use the mouse!