Steve-O

All i can say is that I'm impressed. I thought it would feel weird with the left and right click on one motion but you dont even notice it. The scroll ball is also very intuitive. Any of those bad reviews were absolutely wrong. Go get one now!

Digital_Gary

I used one all day and I was pleasantly surprised as well. I am used to a 5 button mouse so the Mighty Mouse is 1 button behind but it didn't really bug me too much.

lpkmckenna

Bought the Mighty Mouse today (actually, yesterday, since it's 0130 hrs). It's good, with caveats...

1. Don't bother trying to play games with this. I tried UT2004 with it. If you're shooting with the left "button" you can't activate any of the other buttons. The scroll ball is impossible to use for switching weapons. And the squeeze buttons require too much pressure to be used in a game.

2. Instability. If you use the squeeze button, be prepared for some odd problems. I encountered the same glitch at both the Apple Store and at home. Basically, the squeeze buttons are the same surface you need to hold in to lift the mouse during a click. If you were to program the squeeze to "Expose-All Windows" and try to activate Expose during a click'n'drag: huge problems. The windows on the applications become unselectable. The items in the dock cannot be clicked (but they can be right-clicked). The doesn't seem to be any escape from this annoyance without a restart. I blanked-out the squeeze settings.

3. Installing the driver for the Mighty Mouse required a restart! I can't believe it. A mouse driver, of all things!

4. Here's a really cool, but unintended, feature. You can activate the Cmd-Tab app switcher with a mouse button. This is the first time I have seen this done. If you were to try programming that keystroke to a mouse before, very weird things would happen. So I set the scroll-ball click to activate the App Switcher. Here's the cool part: now you can activate the app switcher with a scroll-click on ANY mouse! I tried it with my Macally BTmouseJR and an RF mouse.

Would I recommend this mouse? Maybe. Not for a gamer. Not if you need a fourth button.

I think Apple has a good idea here, but the fact that they screwed up with the squeeze buttons really destroys the design. The biggest problem with the Pro Mouse since its debut is the tiny surfaces on the side you needed to grab if you wanted to pick up the mouse in mid-click. They not only failed to fix this (by making them longer?), but worsened it by making buttons out of them. Now these damn surfaces do 2 things poorly.

I won't be using this mouse at home. Tomorrow (today, actually) I take it to work and use it with my Windows desktop. It'll bring a little style to that ugly black Dell.

Funny. Apple can design a mouse good enough for a Dell, but not good enough for my PowerBook. What a strange, quirky company Apple is.

MacNutt

Call me a neanderthal but I still like my one button Pro Mouse. I do a lot of drawing with it on Photoshop...and the thing just works great. I can't accidentally trigger something bizarre if I run into a solid object (like my cat) and click a corner accidentally. The way I used to with the multi button mouse I used to use.

Apple stuff is so deeply cool. I am sooo hooked. Shoot me now.

Makr

I find that i'm actually faster with a one-button mouse for running around in OS X, because i know all the shortcuts and the shift clicks and so on.

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Pelao

Very good.



Can the scroll ball be programmed to perform a double-click?

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Jordan

I've had my Mighty Mouse for a week now, the scroll ball has to be the best feature.
I love the way it "tingles" under my finger as I use it, smooth scrolling. Although the right click can be finicky sometimes I'm still amazed how it can sense the right click.

Another thing, I can't program keyboard shortcuts or use any Apple scripts or a double click with any of the buttons, kind of a pain. Does anyone know how bypass this? Maybe in time.

Verdict: Love it.

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Steve-O

I was trying to describe it to my co-workers today thats the word i was looking for. I was saying "well there's this....you know feeling that your finger gets....etc."

satchmo

If you're a neaderthal, I must be a dinosaur. I still prefer the old round hockey puck from the multi-coloured iMac days. I just find the small size so easy to use as all movements can be done by one's finger tips. You don't need to move your whole hand or arm.

planders

Sounds like USB Overdrive has just been updated to support the Mighty Mouse and includes these features. Unfortunately, it sounds like it won't be possible to treat the squeeze buttons as two separate buttons. Sigh.