Magic Mouse - any good?

vonhelmet said:
Lift left finger up to right click = m-m-m-monster fail.
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I don't know whether I normally lift my left finger up when I right click anyway because I'm not conscious of my actions when clicking. When I think of it, I become aware and it's not a natural feeling.

But this method of operation is no different to the mighty mouse anyway.
 
LordSplodge said:
I like mine apart from the back + forward swipes. I cannot do them without breaking my hands.
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That is the main thing that i hate about it.

I wanted to get one and had a go for 10 mins at the Apple store.

General aesthetics - Excellent
Built quality - Excellent
Value for money - Bad
Ergonomics - Zero, form over function

The clicking is fine, I can even live with the lifting index finger for right click. I can't however and i challenge anyone that can, do the 2 finger swipe with 100% success rate without holding onto the mouse. And if you hold onto the mouse with your thumb and ring finger, you don't get get enough of the swipe movement for it to pick it up. And in the 10 mins that i tried doing that, i gave myself minor wrist strain ! Seriously, my hand was aching for the rest of the day. Sure, i could use it without that function, but then i am paying all that money and then missing out on a bunch of features that my Logitech Revolution has, the one function that i gain is going to break my wrist...for the pleasure of Steve Jobs getting my £55? No thanks.

It's a mouse that unless you REALLY wanted that mouse for its looks, there are many many better mouse out there on the market.
 
I just purchased this mouse but have yet to test it out.

I probably won't be replacing the MX518 I'm using on my PC with it but it will be nice to have a bluetooth mouse to use with my macbook.
 
Raymond Lin said:
That is the main thing that i hate about it.

I wanted to get one and had a go for 10 mins at the Apple store.

General aesthetics - Excellent
Built quality - Excellent
Value for money - Bad
Ergonomics - Zero, form over function

The clicking is fine, I can even live with the lifting index finger for right click. I can't however and i challenge anyone that can, do the 2 finger swipe with 100% success rate without holding onto the mouse. And if you hold onto the mouse with your thumb and ring finger, you don't get get enough of the swipe movement for it to pick it up. And in the 10 mins that i tried doing that, i gave myself minor wrist strain ! Seriously, my hand was aching for the rest of the day. Sure, i could use it without that function, but then i am paying all that money and then missing out on a bunch of features that my Logitech Revolution has, the one function that i gain is going to break my wrist...for the pleasure of Steve Jobs getting my £55? No thanks.

It's a mouse that unless you REALLY wanted that mouse for its looks, there are many many better mouse out there on the market.
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You try it standing up at the store, yes it's very hard. Sit at a desk like normal though and it's very easy. I can't do it every time on the machines at work (stood up) but at home it's very easy.
 
I've got one, I find it OK for general web use....
The scrolling is Excellent, really enjoy it!
Ergonomics aren't particularly good, nor does the mouse seem as responsive as I'd like.

Things is once you have used a high end mouse you realise all other mice before that were **** and you will never want to use something lesser again!
 
I spent about 5 hours using it on Wednesday at work and I'm still undecided.

I love the feel of it, I'm used to Razor mice so I like a small mouse with a low-profile.

The thing that annoyed me about was, when I was scrolling around a double-page-spread in InDesign, it would often go completely nuts and slam me to the top/bottom/left/right of the document.

At least with the ball on the Mighty Mouse there was some tactility so you knew how much scrolling you'd done. With the Magic Mouse I couldn't gauge it.

It wasn't on my computer so perhaps my boss has some odd acceleration set up or something but I have a feeling I would need to tweak it with the above software before it could replace my Mighty Mouse.

Panzer
 
...Also, apple seem to have this weird addiction to making a mouse accelerate the further you move it, can't seem to work out how to disable that.
 
It accelerates the faster you move it, not the further. You move it three inches along the desk, it'll go x amount along the screen, if you move it twice as fast it'll go twice as far.

I personally wouldn't want to be with mouse acceleration, but a few people seem to have beef on it.

Usually people at work that when you get to use their machine for a data transfer or something have an uncontrollably fast mouse.
 
I'm currently using a mighty mouse but having used your average laser mouse from other brands now and in the past, I must admit I find it to be massively crap. I hate the bleeding thing, why am I using it? It looks good, the same way Apple flog most of their overpriced garbage :p

edit: oops - in relation to the magic mouse, it still looks like a useless pile of aesthetically pleasing nonsense from Apple.
 
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Hmmmm cool thanks all for the replies - think I will give it ago but keep my old mouse for the time being just incase lol another question tho - what is the battery life like?
 
n1blo said:
That's what I meant..

How can I stop it? I want continuity!
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Turn off "Scroll with momentum" in the mouse preference pane.

fieldy said:
Hmmmm cool thanks all for the replies - think I will give it ago but keep my old mouse for the time being just incase lol another question tho - what is the battery life like?
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Apple claim 4 months on a set of AA batteries (which are included).
 
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