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Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-is-freakin'-awesome dept.

TheRaven64 writes "Hot on the heels of the announcement of x86 Macs, Apple announced a multi-button mouse, known as the Mighty Mouse. It appears that the entire surface is touch-sensitive, allowing the mouse to be programmed as a single-button, multi-button or scrolling device."

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  1. Finally by RandWalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    A zero button mouse from Apple! Truly less is more!

    1. Re:Finally by consequentemente · · Score: 2, Funny

      I couldn't count how many Windows users I've had this conversation with:

      "Ok, right-click on that."
      "Do what?"
      "Right-click... you know click with the OTHER button - the one on the RIGHT"
      "Huh??"

      Of course... even that's a more enjoyable experience than habitually right-clicking with a Mac mouse, only to realize that my efforts are in vain and that I have to hunt down that pesky pretzel key and tie my hand in some sort of apple-command-shift knot just for one mouse click :-P

    2. Re:Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If you thought that was fun, prepare yourself for a veritable joygasm when telling Mac users to righ-click on a mouse that visibly only has one button.

      "Ok, right-click on that."
      "Do what?"
      "Right-click... you know click with the OTHER button - the one on the RIGHT"
      "But there's only 1 button and a nipply-thing on this mouse"
      "No there's a second button but it's hidden. It's the right button."
      "A hidden button? Would anyone make a mouse and then HIDE one of the buttons?"
      "Okay, you know what? Never mind. Just squeeze-click on that, instead."
      ". . . ."

  2. Hell... by jwthompson2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    has frozen over and the devil has taken up hockey and ice fishing...

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  3. Heeeere I come by Se7enLC · · Score: 1, Funny

    Heeeeere I come, 10 years too laaaaaaate!!

    Welcome to the mid 80s with the multi-button mice, apple.

    1. Re:Heeeere I come by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      A little math problem or wishful thinking? The mid eighties were 20 years ago.

    2. Re:Heeeere I come by Se7enLC · · Score: 2, Funny

      20 just didn't fit with the parody song :-P

  4. Re:Apple Innovates Again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Why doesn't this happen in the Windows world?

    Don't worry, it will now!

  5. At $49.. by Ga_101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd rather have a Danger Mouse or two...

  6. Re:It isn't touch sensitive, I think by Kafka_Canada · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe you could also start typing with your keyboard instead of your mouse? (Or alternately, buy a mouse with a built-in spellchecker.)

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  7. plus it is able to recognise a "rocking" motion. by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny
    plus it is able to recognise a "rocking" motion.
    ... Apple's FINALLY going where the money is - interactive pr0n!!!
  8. Re:Apple Innovates Again by macthulhu · · Score: 4, Funny

    11 Buttons? Are you sure it's not just a really shitty keyboard?

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  9. Re:Apple Innovates Again by el_womble · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think we should take this one step further and just put an optical movement sensor on the bottom of the keyboard! Eat my 113 button mouse suckers!

    (Yes I know this is a dumb idea, but at least you would have to take your hands off the keyboard ;) )

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  10. How Rich! by sysadmn · · Score: 2, Funny

    So the company that stayed with a one button mouse because "users might get confused" releases a multi-button mouse with built in track button and squeezable sides? Worse yet, the side action is programmable? Pretty ironic.
    What's next, the Danger Mouse, where squeezes will randomly deliver electric shocks?

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  11. Re:You don't get it do you? by springbox · · Score: 2, Funny

    /uses a 4 button mouse at home
    //can still get by 100% without it

    "I can stop when I want to!"

  12. Re:You don't get it do you? by dasdrewid · · Score: 3, Funny

    4-button mouse? Psh. I've got a *5* button mouse for *my* mac. With a scroll wheel. And flames painted on the side. And spinners. Bitch.

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  13. Re:Less Cord Please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    even the slightest lag is intolerable while playing the most fast-paced games

    Games. On a Mac.

    *wipes away tears of laughter*

  14. Re:Marketing blurb (Re:apple vs fanatics) by willCode4Beer.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The advantages of the single-button mosuse for the experienced user should be that it is faster"

    Hmmm...
    Faster = click and wait
    Faster = control-key click
    Slow = right click

    How could I argue with that.

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  15. For ultra realism... by bayvult · · Score: 2, Funny
    Why stop with a speaker that generates a "click"? The mouse should also have an internal receptacle that slowly disperses cigarette ash, pizza topping and pubic hair over the surface of the desk - or graphic novel, or whatever surface us being used as a mouse mat.

    This receptacle would need to be refilled periodically, like a Hoover bag, but in reverse. However Apple could patent the formula and interface, so you only use "genuine Apple Mouse grime".

    I see Upside Margin Potential!

  16. Re:You don't get it do you? by kelnos · · Score: 2, Funny

    What, no rear spoiler? Chrome buttons? R-type stickers? Puh-leeze.

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