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Review of Apple's "Mighty Mouse"
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.""
If the author of this review had even bothered to read the information on the Apple website, he would have found that there are no sounds associated with the mouse. It is also obvious by simply looking at the mouse that it is not "solid-state touch-sensitive like our beloved iPod wheels." Also, one of the small features I love about Macintosh is the ability to plug your mouse into the keyboard, therefore getting rid of the need for a long mouse cord. Sounds like a guy who doesn't work on a Mac very often.
Way back in the System 7 days I had a Kensington Thinking Mouse (4 buttons) connected to my Mac via AppleDesktopBus. The additional 3 buttons were programmed through a control panel installed along with the Kensington drivers.
In the Mac OS 8 days I had a two button mouse, Mac OS 8 had full and proper support for contextual menus (right-click or control-click, they do the same thing).
So did Mac OS 9...
So does Mac OS X...
During the public beta of Mac OS X, I was able to plug in a Microsoft Optical Scroll Mouse and use both the right button and the scroll wheel without having to do any installation or configuration. Ditto for Logitch mice. This worked just as well with Mac OS X 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and now with 10.4.