Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

Despite some of the bad reviews, I went ahead and bought the magic mouse on the basis that I still prefer to hold, move and click something solid!

I guess if you're used to the trackpads of laptops then the trackpad will be more suitable, but if like me you love to click then this is an awesome product.

It feels real nice to hold (it's not designed to hug to your palm as your palm sits in a curved state naturally, instead just the tips of your fingers and the base of your palm rest on it's super smooth surface)

The gestures are valuable in Lion, I'm still quite new to the mac so still learning little tricks but since getting the magic mouse i've used functions not used before because they become so simple! (i'm guessing the same for trackpad on this one too)

The laser and bluetooth combination too make for seamless function. easy to set up and no jerkiness in the cursor movement unlike my previous mouse that used a USB dongle to connect kept sticking and freezing.

Conclusion, an essential apple product (unless you like to point the cursor with your finger, then get the trackpad), worth every penny in comparison to previous models.

Having been a PC Gamer for many years I have used more mice with more configurations, sizes and designs than the majority of computer users.
The Magic Mouse is perhaps one of the best mice ever created for those that want to do anything except gaming.

It feels great in the hand, the surface is perfect for scrolling with and the battery lasts pretty well considering all it is capable of.

However, it is the most atrocious device for any kind of gaming. If you intend to play games on your Mac then have a second, gaming specific mouse for this kind of use.

People complaining about expose and middle clicks, go download "MagicPref", it gives you the choice of one finger middle axis click. 2 finger click, 3 finger click, 4 finger click, swipe, tap, etc etc. you get to customise the clicks with about, I don't know, a million functions.

And yes, it's free. A simple google search for 'MagicPref" would give you the site/download.

Excellent...I've just got this because I was fed up of my mighty mouse roller ball not working. The magic mouse is excellent, I did a lot of research before buying it and some of the reviews said it wasn't very ergonomic to the hand but it feels fine to me. I also have a macbook pro so I'm used to the multi finger gestures which translate perfectly onto the magic mouse....truly MAGIC

After battling with a sticky track ball on a wireless mighty mouse for a couple of years, Santa decided to reward me with a Magic Mouse. I am so glad he did - it really is a fantastic product. I love the smooth feel of the top, left and right clicks work perfectly and the scrolling function of the multi-touch surface is just amazing (up, down, left right). The laser tracking is amazingly accurate and negates the need for a mouse mat. I too was worried about the lack of Expose buttons, but a very easy work around for this is to set up 'active corners' in Expose and Spaces prefs so that when you drag the mouse pointer to one corner of the screen, it opens expose! Simple...
The only thing I am not convinced about is the two finger swipe as the gesture is not that natural (yet). Overall another superbly innovative Apple product - Get One!

Just got one of these and I think its excellent. Very few moving parts now so no scroll ball problems (thanx Applecare for 3 of them over the two years!). For those looking to have mouse control for Expose and any other stuff including of course the 'third button' (absolutely necessary for making multiple tabs from a google page result!), a third party app called 'Bettertouchtool' works excellently until our leaders get these things going!

i read i bit of previous reviews, and found that people are missing the expose, spaces and so on functionalities .. and they are saying that the touch pad is not gonna be programmable.. but funny thing, when i got the mouse, first thing i did was to google "Magic Mouse software" and through that i found a freeware program called "MagicPrefs" and i was able to program both, expose and Dashboard shortcuts into my magic mouse, very simple. And it works beautifull, without a doubt in mind, it runs perfect! no more worries about that please..

I find this to be a great, intuitive mouse. You can configure and adjust the right/left click, sensitivity and speed etc. The scrolling and page navigation is great.

I never turn the mouse off (although it might have a sleep function) and it has only used a 2 sets of battery's in the 6 months that I have had it. I use Duracell Procell and this might be a fix for others who seem to have very poor battery life issues.

I have had this mouse about 1 week now and find it a pleasure to use.

The laser pointer is accurate.

The mouse glides well over most surfaces and the clicks are positive.

The touch surface works well making scrolling through web pages a dream. Actually, browsing the net is amazing using this mouse. The momentum scrolling is as brilliant as it is on the iPhone.

I think the pinch and rotate gesture MUST come to this mouse as they will work perfectly and add so much to this already intuitive design.

I was a little concerned by the low design of the mouse, from reading reviews etc but up to now I have not found it a major problem. I would say I have medium size hands!

I use this mouse at work with Final Cut Pro and After Effetcs and find its great for scrolling through timelines and very accurate editing.

At home its great for web browsing and iTunes use.

Splendid job all round.

After reading a lot of the reviews here I'm very confused frankly ...

I bought mine 3 weeks ago to go with my MacBook Pro. I'm a HEAVY user and with the supplied batteries I still have 93% power left in them and they are NOT high capacity batteries, just a set of standard Enegizer jobbies. I have a fistful of very high 2400ma ones that I'm going to start using with this and they should last for months on end.

I have several small Logitech wireless mice that I use with my PC and they EAT batteries in comparison to the MagicMouse.

I have only noticed the mouse disconnect twice in all the time I've been using it so no complaints there either.

In short I love it, it's VERY functional and works EXACTLY as described