Apple Introduces the Mighty Mouse

[TMTCC]

Looks like Apple is moving up in the world of computer peripherals with their first 2-button mouse, the Mighty Mouse!. It has some interesting features such as the touch sensitive buttons, a 360 rolling ball, and 360 touch scrolling.

 

[imported_ArtVandalay]

Rofl it's a ball mouse?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: ArtVandalay
Rofl it's a ball mouse?

i think you just pwned yourself.

 

[imported_ArtVandalay]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: ArtVandalay
Rofl it's a ball mouse?

i think you just pwned yourself.

Whoops, guess I should've read before commenting

 

[Promethply]

Apple's simple yet elegant design is simply admirable.

 

[CMar]

"The Button That Wasn?t

Alas the fate of the one-button mouse in today?s multibutton world. Who has time for intuitive, elegant design when there is so much clicking to do? Thanks to a smooth top shell with touch-sensitive technology beneath, Mighty Mouse allows you to right click without a right button. Capacitive sensors under Mighty Mouse?s seamless top shell detect where your fingers are and predict your clicking intentions, so you don?t need two buttons ? just two fingers. Click on the left side to use Mighty Mouse in its simplest, single-button form. Click on the right to access contextual menus within applications and edit, copy, label or download from your mouse. It?s simple sleight of hand."

so like the current POS apple mouse, that clicks evry time you strech your fingers or adjust your hand on it, it will require hours of practice just to make it work like a mouse should.
apple has visual designers, if they could just let somone that didn't design it try it before the sell it, they would make great product.


REMEMBER THE HOCKY PUCK!!!

 

[imported_ArtVandalay]

Originally posted by: Promethply
Apple's simple yet elegant design is simply admirable.

I dislike the look. "One man's junk..." I guess.

 

[T9D]

They try way to hard to be "innovative". They always want that different "elitist" look or something instead of just giving us a streight forward easy to use design. Put to much gimmicky stuff on it.

 

[lxskllr]

Great, so now I can use an irritating touchpad on my desktop. I wonder if their engineers even use a computer. Maybe next they'll design an improved sliderule.

 

[Varun]

I really like the tactile feeling of buttons clicking under my finger - I don't think I would like this mouse, but then I don't like most of apples products. I am not the one they are targeting I guess.

Personally I really like the MX1000 even though I currently use a Trackman wheel.

 

[wkinney]

What does this mouse improve on that the regular mouse is lacking in??? If you want more buttons, there are 3+ button mouses, if you want horizontal scrolling those exist too...
It sounds like its taking extra features that currently exist for mouses and adding a learning curve on how to use them.

 

[imported_itr]

does it come in wireless?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: itr
does it come in wireless?

I didn't see a wireless version.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

if that works on a pc and works with my cad apps, im getting one.

 

[jim1976]

Bah. Logitech MX-510 for me... Simply the best

 

[halfadder]

According to the Apple website, the Mightly Mouse supports the standard usb mouse driver in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. No mention of Windows Vista beta.

The tracking sensor on the bottom of the mouse uses the same Aglient LED tracking mechanism that 90% of optical mice currently use.

I personally love my Logitech MX900 (Bluetooth wireless) on my PowerBook G4 and desktop PCs. But I will give the new Apple Mighty Mouse a try. From what I understand, the "clicking" sensors actually look for a change in finger contact surface area... push down and you have more fingerprint touching the surface and it registers as a click (or click and hold)... so you should be able to reposition your hand without causing false clicks. The scroll ball sounds similar in that it's touch sensitive not an actual trackball.

My guess is that Apple had someone from their iPod division use the iPod clickwheel technology to make a plastic touch sensitive mouse. Very similar to the old Apple LCD moinitors with the plasic bezels... to turn those monitors (and the attached computer) on you just touched the plastic surface covering the power LED... no mechanical switch or feedback.

I do have some questions about this mouse:
-- Can I adjust the touch sensitivity of the virtual buttons somehow? Maybe a special sensitivity pane in the Mouse preference panel on OS X?
-- Is there a way to disable to adjust the volume of the "click" speaker inside the mouse?
-- Where the #$%& is the Bluetooth version?

 

[w9design]

Just to clarify, the mouse doesn't spontaneously click when you touch it. The mouse physically clicks down just ilke a normal mouse (same feedback as the old apple mouse). The touch sensors only determine which side of the mouse you clicked on, they don't actually generate a click action.

The comparisons to a touchpad or complaints about adjusting your fingers are way off base on this one, sorry guys.

They should have them in stock at your local Apple store; I'd encourage doubters to give it a fair shot -- it's actually really cool.

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: ArtVandalay

Originally posted by: Promethply
Apple's simple yet elegant design is simply admirable.

I dislike the look. "One man's junk..." I guess.

Looks like a malformed tampon.

pcgeek11

 

[Twistah]

I like it, though if it's functional as well remains to be seen.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: Promethply
Apple's simple yet elegant design is simply admirable.

LOL. Too bad they're a good couple thousand miles behind the competition.

The MX700 has 8 buttons, it was released two years ago. The Mighty Mouse has 3 buttons (if the ball can act as a button), it was just released.

Apple is so revolutionary. :roll:

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: Promethply
Apple's simple yet elegant design is simply admirable.

LOL. Too bad they're a good couple thousand miles behind the competition.

The MX700 has 8 buttons, it was released two years ago. The Mighty Mouse has 3 buttons (if the ball can act as a button), it was just released.

Apple is so revolutionary. :roll:

It's a mouse. It needs to move a cursor around a screen and click every once in a while. What do you need 8 buttons for?

It took Windows long enough to use 3 buttons. X11 has used 3 for years now.

EDIT: And by years I mean more than 10. My SPARCstation 10 came with a 3 button mouse.

 

[AmberClad]

$50? For a fraction of that price you could buy a Logitech that would be more user friendly, have more functions, and it'd still be sleek looking if that's what you're after. Why Apple, why ?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: Promethply
Apple's simple yet elegant design is simply admirable.

LOL. Too bad they're a good couple thousand miles behind the competition.

The MX700 has 8 buttons, it was released two years ago. The Mighty Mouse has 3 buttons (if the ball can act as a button), it was just released.

Apple is so revolutionary. :roll:

Except it has 5 buttons, not 3. Way to RTFA...

 

[Varun]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: Promethply
Apple's simple yet elegant design is simply admirable.

LOL. Too bad they're a good couple thousand miles behind the competition.

The MX700 has 8 buttons, it was released two years ago. The Mighty Mouse has 3 buttons (if the ball can act as a button), it was just released.

Apple is so revolutionary. :roll:

Except it has 5 buttons, not 3. Way to RTFA...

quote from the article:

you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design.

Way to RTFA...

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Varun

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude

Originally posted by: Promethply
Apple's simple yet elegant design is simply admirable.

LOL. Too bad they're a good couple thousand miles behind the competition.

The MX700 has 8 buttons, it was released two years ago. The Mighty Mouse has 3 buttons (if the ball can act as a button), it was just released.

Apple is so revolutionary. :roll:

Except it has 5 buttons, not 3. Way to RTFA...

quote from the article:

you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design.

Way to RTFA...

Let's count the logical buttons:

1) Left click
2) Right click
3) Scroll ball click
4) Left side(thumb) click
5) Right side(ring finger) click

That's 5.