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Review of Apple's "Mighty Mouse"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-waiting-for-mine-to-ship dept.

hanser writes "Ars Technica is running an in-depth review of the new Apple "Mighty Mouse." From the review: "As it turns out, Apple blew the description of its "aural feedback" and "touch sensitivity" out of proportion and led most of us to believe that 1) there was some sort of speaker built into the mouse with synthetic mouse sounds coming out of it, and 2) the shell might be solid-state touch-sensitive like our beloved iPod wheels.""

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  1. Re:tap tap is this thing on? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Is there something wrong with the moderation? There are hardly any +3 or higher comments on most of the stories in the past day.

    WRONG? Sounds like it finally started working properly.

  2. slow down apple! by frostilicus2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm still acclimatizing to x86, next you'll be telling me that all macs will ship with windows.

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  3. Eye tracking technology, maybe? by Scrameustache · · Score: 2, Funny

    annoyed, because they have to lift their index finger

    Ok, we have DEFINATLY gotten too lazy when lifting a finger has become too much to ask of us.

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    You can't take the sky from me...

  4. Re:Well... by Destoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think they missed one important dot on that diagram.

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  5. Re:Not as versatile as a normal multi-button mouse by cloudmaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    To further support your argument, I've included with this post the beginnings of source code to a driver that doesn't do anything "right now", but one day will make this mouse capable of shooting fire from the LED. I mean, just because the driver that ships with the mouse and another third-party driver don't support it now, why should I refrain from claiming that one day the apple MightyMouse will certainly be able to shoot fire from the LED?

    Oh, I almost forgot to make my argument valid: "Fuck, son of a bitch, idiot."

    --begin source--
    --end source--

  6. Re:Well... by Thu25245 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It did have three buttons, which had, essentially, the following functions
    select
    move
    activate

    Which Apple confusingly replaced with "click" "drag" and "double click."

    Personally, I'm so glad that most sane people have chosen to use multiple buttons. Can you imagine what it would be like if we had to "click twice in rapid succession" the way Apple would have us do? Or "hold down a button while moving?"

    Give me my "activate" and "move" buttons anyday. Let those crazy Apple users "double click," I want no part of it.