Mighty Mouse goes wireless!
Well it’s about time. Last year Apple introduced Mighty Mouse, a 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel, which was a big deal since Apple mice have traditionally been single button based. Unfortunately, they forgot to remove the wires. Until yesterday only a wired version of Mighty Mouse existed, which was nothing short of a tragedy for me and my desk since wires lying around drive me insane. So I held out, and waiting…and waited…and waited… and finally Apple dropped a Bluetooth version of the Mighty Mouse, almost a full year later.
I can’t say it was really worth the wait though. The basic shape of the mouse is exactly the same. There’s no visible divider for the two buttons so it’s more like click and guess which button you pressed. Half the time I click, I end up right-clicking by accident. It’s not like I’m just too used to a single button since I use a mouse with 2 buttons at work every day. It’s that Apple really sucked on the design of this and provide no feedback to the user via touch on what button is being used.
And the scroll “wheel”?! C’mon. It’s a freakin’ ball. It’s way too small and way too sensitive even with the speed of it slowed down as far as it can go in the settings. I love Apple stuff and I’m sure they’ll fix the Mighty Mouse one day, but this is one device where they really didn’t come through.
So yeah, I’m still waiting for a ergonomic Apple keyboard and mouse and I’ll probably be waiting for a looooong time still. If anyone can pull off a stylish ergonomic set, it’d be tem.
