Apple Mighty Mouse (USB) |
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Apple
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Apple
EAN: 0885909174010
Label: Apple
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MB112ZM/A
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: 2007-10-24
Studio: Apple |
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- Device Type - Mouse
- Form Factor - External
- Movement Detection Technology - Optical
- Features - Programmable buttons, TouchSense technology, scrolling ball
- OS Required - Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP, Apple MacOS X 10.4.8 or later
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Product Description
This wired mouse that reinvents the wheel - the scroll wheel, that is! Mighty Mouse features the amazing Scroll Ball, which lets you move anywhere inside a document without your lifting a finger. Its powerful laser delivers performances that are 20 times higher than a standard optical mouse, giving you greater precision on even more surfaces. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you can choose either the versatility of a four-button mouse or the simplicity of a single-button beauty.
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Do not buy this item, 2008-11-02
The Apple mighty mouse is overpriced and is poorly designed.
The scrolling ball will only work for 2-3 months before it starts to stick. The grease on your skin will foul the rollers inside - and unlike other types of "mice" you cannot clean it!! So end up throwing it away. You can try taking it apart, but the base is glued down, and it is very difficult to remove without breaking it!
You would be far better off buying a Logitech wireless bluetooth mouse for less money, and it will last a much longer time!
Poor Longevity, 2008-12-19
For a one button mouse this is a great product, you have the squeeze that cascades your windows for an easily organised workspace, sideways scrolling for those larger web pages and designs.
However I can't understand how the designers could have decided that one button is better than two (or more), you get used to the ctrl-clicking but its by no means comfortable, many games are simply a pain, and as the whole body of the mouse is effectively the button if you have a cramped desk and the wire loops round in front of your mouse you'll find yourself continuously unable to press the button.
I got my mouse in June with my Mac, its now December and the scrolling ball on the top is completely useless due to the fact that the mouse must be broken to be opened and cleaned (you can prolong the use of the ball, even when it gets dirty by rolling it on clean cloth/paper, but this won't always work)
Its a lovely product, but owing to the fact you can't open it without knowingly breaking parts of it its lifespan can be somewhat limited depending on how clean your desk is.
great for a while, 2008-09-13
Since I switched to Mac from PC six months ago, I've been through three Mighty Mice. The only area of concern is the scroll ball. It works brilliantly for a while, but the internal gubbins soon gets dirty and the ball becomes unreliable.
I love the Idea of the Mighty Mouse - clean and simplistic to look at, uncluttered but capable of much more than you'd think, and that scroll ball is a work of genius. It is precise and customisable and it looks flippin' cool. But it soon goes wrong. The scroll ball, one of the Mighty Mouse's biggest plus points, is also its biggest problem.
Who remembers the mice of yore, the ones with the rubber coated ball-bearings used to track movement? After a while, the crud that was picked up by the ball and got deposited on the mouse's sensor wheels built up and stopped the thing from working properly. The good thing was that you could take the ball out and remove the crud to get the thing working properly again (an unfolded paperclip was my tool of choice :-) The Mighty Mouse's scroll ball works on the same principle as the old fashioned ball-bearing mice, and it gathers crud in exactly the same way. But the Mighty Mouse is a sealed unit, so you can't take it apart to clean it. The only cleaning method that provides a short term fix is to hold the mouse up-side-down on a piece of paper, apply pressure, and roll the ball back and forth and side to side rapidly. This sometimes improves things, but soon becomes ineffective.
I'll never go back to Windows PCs, but the Apple Mighty Mouse is being ditched as soon as my current one starts to play up. The only bad apple (ahem!!) in an otherwise excellent package.
practical but flimsy, 2008-12-11
This is perhaps the weakest part of my new mac.
Although , due to the great software , it offers multiple options to control the screen , the wheel can break and if that happens it is not covered by the insurance.
Thankfully amazon were very kind to send a replacement ,but it should not have broken so easily.
Otherwise it feels very light and responds very quickly making very easy to switch from application to another.
Needs updating.
Drives me crazy, 2008-08-22
I'm amazed there are so many positive reviews, it drives me completely nutty.
The pointer is forever disappearing and I have to keep lifting it up and moving it around to find where it has gone off to. When I bought my imac the ones in the store did this and I hoped it was just the display models.
I have replaced it with my old logitech nano and this never happens anymore so it is definitely the mouse and not me or the computer settings that is causing this trait.
I will agree with everyone that the scroll ball is a very good feature but doesn't make up for the disappearing pointer.
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