Reviews for Apple Mouse

This mouse is more versatile than the original, anything with more than 1 click is, but the scrollwheel needs cleaning inconveniently often, and there is not a good way to do it, dirt is displaced but left in the body of the mouse. It also loses position every few minutes, the pointer shooting off to a random extreme position, wasting time.
All 3 of these mouses I have owned have these faults, so it is hardware/software not a faulty unit.
I -do- like it whilst it is working though....

19 of 24 people found this useful

there seems to be a lot of complaints about the scroll ball, which is kind of funny. it's the main feature in this mouse that i enjoy, but seems to be the worst at the same time. My main issue with this thing is that the cursor doesn't move smoothly across the screen. like i move it across the desk smoothly but the cursor on the screen doesn't move at a constant speed. i know this is something to do with the software and the cursor acceleration but it's just terrible. i tried it with a standard non-apple mouse and it was the same way so... yeah maybe it's more of a software issue. i also find the mouse just uncomfortable. like yeah it's pretty and goes nicely with apple's simplistic styling approach, but i think this is an area where that got in the way. i'm used to a razer lachesis too, though, which is beautiful. also there's an awful lot of friction between the mouse and the desk, even with a mousepad. it's weird, everything apple is great, i even love the keyboard, but they really dropped the ball on this mouse. i gave it 2 stars though because of the scroll ball innovation which is a wonderful concept, but not implemented very well

7 of 9 people found this useful

The mouse works well but why is the cord so short????? With the macbook having the USB ports on the left and being right handed the cord constantly gets caught where the screen and body meet in the back. The only other option is to lay it over the keypad which is not a good solution. Had to buy and extension to use it, not good.

5 of 6 people found this useful

As other reviewers have said, the scrollball is the main Achilles Heel of this product. It gums-up and requires cleaning almost daily in active use. It frustrated me to the point of actual physical abuse. Unfortunately, whacking the Mighty Mouse causes it to develop more problems so is not recommended.

But in addition to the scrollball issues, the mouse is extremely sensitive to how you hold it. It can easily confuse a left-click for a right-click and vice-versa. More frustration! And while attempting to scroll with the scrollball it will very happily register a random right or left-click too. More whacking ensues ...

I'm off to get a Kensington mouse tonight because I'm developing a tick and scaring the pets by loudly swearing while trying to deal with all the annoyances of this thing. Life is too short -- just leave it in the little plastic bag it came in if you got one with an iMac. It works best that way.

14 of 20 people found this useful

I love everything from Apple except Mighty Mouse! Track ball is the killing point!!

I do a lot of graphic design, so I was looking forward to having a scroll ball on top of the mouse that would allow me to manipulate the horizontal scroll bar as well as the vertical.

Positives:

- Scroll ball is extremely useful for any type of graphic design and large web pages.
- Looks really cool.

Negatives:

- Even at its highest tracking speed, it's unacceptably slow.
- Since the "button" is one-piece, you have to move your middle finger all the way to the right side of the mouse to right-click. Otherwise, it misinterprets it for a left-click. Only solution is to make the “peace sign” with your right hand to keep your index and middle finger far enough apart.
- Makes a cheap creaky plastic sound every time you click something.

I REALLY like scroll ball thingee, but this particular mouse has too many problems to make it worth putting up with.

6 of 9 people found this useful

The good bits: the design is sleek and it matches well with my MacBook. It feels comfortable in my hand and sideways scrolling can be handy.

The bad bits: the side buttons are only really practical if you are willing to squeeze and use them both as one button.

The scroll ball is a real weak point. For web browsing it's fine, but on many applications, especially in Windows and Linux, even more so in games, it is too sensitive and I have been unable to fix this. You touch it a tiny bit and it zooms or scrolls far too much. It can be really hard to get things precisely where you need.

It also suffers with the dirt issue. Originally mine responded well to the cleaning instructions. However, over time it has degraded and cleaning does not improve it. I now have to press quite hard to scroll up a page, often causing it to press the middle button (and thus do something else). It is now pretty much unusable. I shall be attempting to return it for this reason, having bought it only 9 months ago.

There is another fault, where it seems to stick when clicking, as if something has shifted out of place, and makes a horrible noise. This comes and goes. I don't know if this is just my mouse or caused by a design weakness similar to the scroll ball.

If I had paid only £10 for this mouse I would have been annoyed.

I would recommend this mouse only to people who a) use their computers less than an hour a day and b) do not need to do anything outside of fairly standard OS X applications and c) do not have to carry it in a laptop bag most days (it is clearly not robust enough).

1 of 1 people found this useful

There are a number of problems I have with this mouse.

1. Keeping it clean - I feel that I have to clean this every other day to keep the scroll wheel to work.

2. I had to disable the side buttons and the middle button because no matter how much I tried, they were just so much more sensitive than buttons on other mice and I was always accidentally pressing one.

3. Like the cords on some other Apple products, my mouse cord began to fray right by the USB connector. The wires are coming out and though I'm trying to keep it together for the time being, it's not going to last long.

4 of 5 people found this useful

what frustrates me so much about this mouse is how much I love the way it is DESIGNED to work, but I hate the way it DOESN'T work. I do a lot of audio editing and the 360 degree scroller is WONDERFUL when it works. But after one year it now malfunctions so much I've had to get a replacement (and I'm not dropping another $50 just to have the same problem come up again). Better to just get a cheap mouse and supplement it with a Contour Shuttle Xpress (I love that thing)

2 of 2 people found this useful