Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

This mouse es very nice, in first touch it feels a little unconfortable beacause is different, but in a while you feel that is really light and smooth to use. I love it, but after the software update, the default leopard speed configuration was great and after the upgrade, the magic mouse become slow and hard to move the pointer faster, it should be twice faster, please apple team, make it possible beacause the mouse is fantastic and the scroll is very nice. If you read that and have the same feeling, write about this...

Let's start off with the bad points and the reason why it only gets 4 stars. The Magic Mouse doesn't have the same possibility of functionality as the Mighty Mouse did. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED the mighty mouse (except the dirty roller ball). But the Magic Mouse can't invoke expose out of the box, until I found BetterTouchTool, once i found that I bought the Magic Mouse no question. It is a little difficult to hold on to but i find myself moving the mouse to where I want to click then letting go and using it like a touch pad so its not that bad.

On the other hand, the ease in which i can now move around documents is a revelation. It's the same as scrolling on my iPhone. The flick and catch, the swipes actually make this a fun mouse to use. The ability to never have to click the back button is great, it's like having an intuitive firefox mouse gesture, but way better. Overall the weight of the mouse is good, since it is a little hard to hold onto the light weight makes up for it. The fidelity of the right click is much improved over the mighty mouse.

In conclusion, I would recommend this mouse it takes a little getting used. But it's beauty surpasses those little niggles.

When I first saw the mouse, I thought it was beautiful. It was very slim and carried a very nice and simple design. There was one thing I thought was going to take time to get used to, gripping the mouse. The mouse looked hard to grip comfortably, but surprisingly it wasn't that bad. It's not like gripping a normal standard mouse, but I was not feeling uncomfortable. It will probably still take some time to get fully adjusted to it, but other than that it's fine. The multi-touch is amazing. I like how you can do stuff just like the things you can do on the glass trackpads on my MacBook Pro. It senses the gestures properly. Overall, I think this is a great mouse. The things I wish they can add is the ability to go to expose with gestures, pinch zooming, and tap to click. It would be perfect if they added all the features they have on the glass trackpads.

I've had my magic mouse for the better part of 4 months now and it has not malfunctioned at all with the use that i put through it. the only problem that i have found with this design is the aluminum is slowly corroding away on the sides where my thumb and ring finger makes contact with the casing. the thin gap between the top shell and the bottom shell has a nasty habit of accumulating dead skin cells, and i am forced to clean it out every so often.

other than the above mentioned problem, this mouse is an excellent addition to the mac products i already own.

I have tested this mouse numerous times in the past several days at different Apple stores as they haven't yet been available in Dallas, TX.

Like everyone else I was impressed by the multi-tech technology.
The momentum option works exactly as expected.
There is no more roller-ball to get clogged with debris.

After a little experimentation with using less finger pressure you can learn to scroll left-to-right without moving the pointer. The double-finger paging is slightly trickier as you almost have to let go with the other fingers.

If you use Google maps please test this out as the Magic Mouse seems to add a few unexpected zoom actions while navigating the map.

Button 3 went away.
If you use the Terminal and are used to selecting text and "quick-pasting" with the center mouse button (Button 3) you will now have to select, cut, then paste. Where the "quick-pasting" was just one mouse click, the cut and paste requires four mouse clicks. Dragging the selected text is still an option but requires a little more skill than the "quick-pasting".

I'm not sad about the side buttons going away. For me they were a little awkward to use.

My ergonomic concern is that the Magic Mouse is slightly too flat. I found my fingers starting to ache after 20-30 minutes of use - which never happened with my Mighty Mouse. Flat is great for a track pad, but the difference is that your hand still wants to hold the mouse.

Yeah it doesn't right click, so if you are putting microsoft or some other big right click using program in your MAC computer, you need a different mouse. And the battery cover comes off once each couple weeks and I put it back on in 20 seconds.
But with my mac mini no problem. I don't even use a track pad-just the tabletop. And there's a bump on my table where a finishing nail rises up on the surface and I hit it about once every 2 weeks with the mouse and knock off my battery cover, put the cover back on then I go pound the nail down again.
I also rest the heel of my hand on the table while I finger scroll. I can rest my thumb on one side and little finger on the other side on the table for rest also. If your hands are small you could only rest on one side.
This is not a horrible mouse like the old hockey puck mouse. Go to a mac store, best buy, etc if you can and try one.
My only complaint: it eats batteries every 3 months so to be ecological you need rechargeable batteries. I've had this mouse 1 & 1/2 years.

I love the design, the feel, and the speed of using it.
But, I am having big problems with it, after using the mouse for about 6 weeks, the mouse's connection to the computer became unreliable. It seems to happen for no apparent reason, and the issue has progressively got worse. Now it doesn't work at all.
I find this so frustrating because the magic mouse is great, in fact I love my magic mouse ... when it works.
I have read that other people are having this problem too. Apple please sort this issue out because you have what is otherwise a fantastic product.

firstly this device is stunning to look at, its like a piece of art. a mouse with a touch pad on top? awesome, and possible the future of these devices, however it does have a few little niggles that may or may not bother you. i would highly recommend checking one out in a store if possible as it is extremely low profile making it uncomfortable for some. obviously the up side of this is its really portable, which is great for all you macbook owners. personally i'm fine with the flatness of it, as are many others. the one other slight issue is that it can be a little difficult to right click, and you may find yourself accidentally doing stuff you didn't want to by not realizing how many finger you have on it. maybe theres a bit of a learning curve and im not fully used to it yet. if you like your gadgets and toys you'll almost certainly love it. its not perfect but then nothing ever is. its certainly worthy of 3 stars plus, and anyone giving a review of 1 or 2 stars are simply reviewing the uselessness of themselves. obviously its a little overprices, but then its apple and if you've already forked out over a grand for a computer then you might as well have its funky little sidekick.

I have been using this mouse for almost a year now andI love it. I saw in other reviews that people get annoyed by the swiping and other gestures you can use to scroll and zoom - mostly I love those although not all applications use the same direction for zoom (left/right or up/down). Generally I like them. You can switch those off in the control panel if you don't like them anyway.

The mouse is comfortable to use and has a lovely tactile feel to it. As there is no physical division on the surface I occasionally do a right click instead of a left click.

I do get often caught out by the battery life both alkaline and NiMH rechargeables and occasionally it loses bluetooth connection and then takes ages to reconnect. I rarely remember to switch the mouse off overnight but that would only save 8 hours in 24 and would still be be fairly poor.

And a word of warning, don't turn off your bluetooth connection just out of interest otherwise you will need your keyboard shortcuts to navigate back to the control panel and turn it on again or restart or use a wired pointing device (another mouse or graphics tablet).

Overall, using this mouse is such a good experience I would definitely recommend it despite the occasional drawbacks.