Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

the design and function of this mouse is perfect. everything works as advertised. very sleek and elegant. however, $70? way too much for this mouse. even tho it's a fantastic mouse, it's not worth $70. just because things are overpriced, doesn't mean it's a bad product. would still highly recommend, but either cringe and spend the $70 or get one new or used on other sites for less.

This mouse is extremely sleek and low profile, but once again Apple has designed it for style and not comfort. The mouse did not slide well on my granite counter top, so I placed a mouse pad underneath and it worked like a breeze. Absolutely no connection problems whatsoever. Overall, good mouse and I would recommend the mouse to any friend.

It took me a couple days to get the gestures consistent (mostly the two finger swipe between spaces). Since then it has served me very well. It functions with good responsiveness on my desk even without a mousepad.

It does eat batteries like crazy. I had to use my little travel USB mouse when I ran out of batteries unexpectedly. But going without the magic mouse made me appreciate how much I relied on its functions. So I solved the battery problem by getting some rechargeable batteries from Target.

It doesn't fit your hand perfectly but I suspect that's only an issue for heavy users (e.g., programmers, gamers). I've experienced no pain.

Got this yesterday to go with my Mac Mini and I took it like a duck to water. Was using a Microsoft mouse as a stop gap but this is much better. I love the extra functionality and was missing the back button using the Microsoft mouse with the Mac but now I swipe backwards and forwards with ease and zoom and all is groovy.

Others complain that it does stuff without asking it too and that it's too low to comfortably fit the palm of your hand. As far as I can see it's not meant too! I hold it with my thumb one side and my ring and pinky on the other with with my middle and index finger hovering above - perfect.

Bottom line is that it tracks well, the whole surface can scroll, and click and zoom and it gives the Mac the feel of an iPad or iPhone which is where I've come from so I love it.

I like the Magic Mouse, especially its built-in trackpad. When I travel with it (and the spare batteries and charger for safety's sake), it works great next to my MacBook Pro. But at home where i have an iMac and Thunderbolt display, I find the tracking is just too slow and unreliable to zip the cursor from the right edge of the right screen to the left edge of the other. I tried looking in settings for anything that would improve this... but at home I'm just using the wired Mighty Mouse because it performs better. For travelling, though, the Magic Mouse is... magic.

The magic mouse is really awesome. The gestures and easy scrolling makes this a great mouse for web use and lighter design work. The only faults I have come across are the noise (it's really scratchy on a hard surface), and it has also removed varnish off the desks I work on - because of the metal sliders I suppose.

After using this mouse at home, I find it very difficult to go back to a Logitech BT mouse on my work computer. Then again, I get the 'why is a PC so difficult to use and so slow' feeling on every windows PC I've ever used. This mouse, was 2 steps on OSX, batteries in, power on, (wait 5 seconds or so) mouse working! On windows, just like any other bluetooth mouse, 10+ steps, a download, a bunch of balloon popups, more balloon popups, a failure or two, reboot, another download a bunch of next, next, ok, next, next, yes, ok, Agree, next, next, and struggle to work, struggle to keep Bluetooth connection. This I would not blame on Apple, but don't buy this thinking because it's an Apple mouse, that your PC will magically work better. If you have an iMac, this is the only mouse for you!

MagicPrefs free software will allow you to customize the mouse and pad to your liking. Swipes, gestures, click area's, secret app shortcut taps if you want!

The first generation mouse batteries lasted 6 months for me. This second magic mouse came with my 27" iMac. The batteries last 4 weeks max. I need to go to the person I sold my '08 iMac to, and secretly swap the mouse, he'll never know. Apple, if you are listening, I would gladly pay 99$ for a 6,000 MAH lithium ion equipped 1 year rechargeable battery + dock. Or even a inductive charging mouse pad, so it never needs charging!

Design is just gorgeous. It's not designed to be used with your palm resting on the surface of the mouse due to its multi-touch gesture support. But you get used to it as long as you're not planning to use this as a gaming mouse. One thing I don't like is the sensitivity. Some generic mouse seems to have better tracking speed. I changed the setting but can't seem to get it right. Maybe the muti-touch gesture support can be improved but overall I'm really happy with this product.

Great little ergonomic and tactile Apple mouse with more features than your standard PC mounse that works really well with my MacBook Air.
The features are lovely especially scrolling and web browsing.
Only downside is that the surface seems to scratch fairly easily so take care with it.