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.""

Comments

Well...

[Phidoux]

A Mac that uses a mouse that has more than one button would be a good start.

Re:Not as versatile as a normal multi-button mouse

[Lars T.]

Well, that is your guess, based on your interpretation of behavior observed using drivers that don't support this. Why don't you fucking wait until someone tries it out?

Re:Innovative?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you seriously saying you had a mouse in 1985? Unless you were using an early Mac, it's not bloody likley.

Re:Not as versatile as a normal multi-button mouse

[Lars T.]

Boy are you thick. Again, based on the drivers that come with the mouse. Show me a review where the mouse is used with drivers that can even recognize a two-button chord.

Re:Not as versatile as a normal multi-button mouse

[Lars T.]

As opposed to the multitude of third party drivers for this mouse?

Yes, for example USB Overdrive - which doesn't support chording yet either. Jesus Christ, am I talking to a horde of imbeciles here?

The stupid Grandma defense

[adam1101]

If multibutton mice are so confusiong, the hordes of Mac using grandmas must be dying en masse of heart attack from looking at the keyboard with over a hundred keys, many with utterly confusing labels like "ctrl", "f1" or a picture of a pretzel. For the well being of Mac using grandmas everywhere I propose Apple should not ship keyboards with any of their computers. After all, all the keys are in the on-screen keyboards anyway and pro-users can always choose to buy their own keyboards. This has the additional advantage of forcing developers to write apps without assuming the presence of a keyboard, leading obviously to a much better interface than Windows PCs which often won't even boot without a keyboard.

Wow..

[ucahg]

309 comments so far, and the highest score is 2?

You guys suck!

Ho-hum, down to -1 offtopic I go.

Re:The most important feature...

[booyah]

This is what I like about Apple -- creating solutions that work for a wide range of users.

um no. more like dumbing it down so everyone has to operate like a moron.

I hate macs, I really really do, but even those who have them around me ususally admit that they are unintuitive, and simplified beyond reason.

Please dont claim that they are making things to work for everyone, because they obviously arent.

Also, how unintuitive is it to click with your middle finger? THIS IS THE REASON THE RIGHT CLICK IS ON THAT FINGER.

The context menu was coming up, and the selected action (default) was not the one needed
then it sounds like the right click is exactly what you needed, thats the reason for the context menu, so you can do all the most common commands without having to hunt for them.

Go ahead mod me down, its not worth keeping karma if you have to agree with every stupid thing a mac zealot says.

Re:Not as versatile as a normal multi-button mouse

[Lars T.]

Too bad I'm right and you idiots are wrong, hrrm? Oh well, you should be used to it by now.

Re:Ars Technica has the final answer

[Lars T.]

Yeah, you know even less about xev than the author of that article. No mention about trying to test chording, nothing about the "status" given, just mentioning "button 1" event. Ignorant == you. Stop trolling, you little twerp.