Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

This mouse is pretty cool, but it is very SLOW. I moved the tracking to the fastest setting and I still have to move my entire arm a lot to get the mouse to go from one side of the screen to the other (21.5" imac). Is there any way to speed this thing up a little?

Pros: Scrolling, cool looking
Cons: Tracking slow even when adjusted to fast, sharp edges, low non ergonomic profile, heavy, does not drag well

Scrolling is amazing, but I couldn't live with the difficulty of right-clicking. Even if I have the proper one finger on the right side of the mouse, it takes too much pressure to click, and it just feels awkward. Tracking was slow even when set on the highest setting, and as a result I was constantly going off the mousepad with it trying to get from one side of my 30" screen to the other. Ergonomics are not the best – I haven't had my hand cramp up this badly since The Great Kensington Trackball Incident of 1998. I like my Razer Death Adder and Razer Pro Click Mobile mice much better.

Everything is fine for the first two months. But after that, it will frequently lose the connection.

I bought this mouse to use with my Macbook. After a few months of use the scrolling function no longer works. I've tried taking out the batteries, re-syncing the device with my computer and nothing seems to work. I when to apple store for help and they refused to believe me. After syncing it with a store computer and the same issues were present the employee just shrugged and said buy a new one, but I can't guarantee it will work any better. Frankly I'm not impressed that half the functions of this mouse don't work.

I'm an interactive media student (basically a design, media production, computer science major) and I've been doing design work on my macbook pro's trackpad. I love being able to work on projects with the gestures at my fingertips, but I needed the precision of a mouse. I thought I could get the best of both worlds with the Magic Mouse. I went to the Apple Store to test out the mouse, but I have Snow Leopard and all the display computers had Lion. I really wanted test out the gestures on my OS and software, so I bought it, knowing I could return it.

Well, I'm returning it. As an overpriced mouse, I expect it to be above average in all categories. When I first used the mouse, the precision was appalling. I fixed the tracking in system preferences; now I would rate the precision as mediocre. My primary qualm with the product is its gesture support. Even in system preferences, you can't add more gestures, leaving you with scrolling and swiping left and right. Basically, the Magic Mouse has the same functionality as a standard mouse with a scroll wheel and buttons on the side. I then compared the gestures to that of the trackpad. Results: trackpad executes gestures flawlessly, mouse was not accurate (moving around within a 2d image does not work so great).

For how much you pay, I'm disappointed by the outrageously priced charger and the poor ergonomic design. I also dislike the hard metal on my desk--I'd prefer the soft plastic pads on other mice.

I'm sure Apple will one day make this mouse worth buying, but until then, I'm going to use a mouse at half the price and equal functionality that feels better to hold. I just can't justify paying more for something that I genuinely feels works less, despite its hypothetically beneficial features.

I have medium/large man hands. I have been using for about 1 year. The mouse is too low profiled proving to be very uncorfortable over the course of an 8 hour day. I see that this is a common problem so I am hoping it is addressed with the design of the next generation mouse.

Also, the tracks on the bottom of the mouse seem to get gunked up causing it to drag.

I could overlook the rate at which it consumes batteries if these other things were not a problem.

This mouse is beautiful, and with the right plugin is really functional, but is VERY uncomfortable for every day use, is a little too heavy once you're used to the normal Apple Mouse (mighty mouse) and has done a real number on my wrist in just a few days. It's a great idea, but if you rest your hand on the mouse you'll have problems.

After waking my computer, my mouse has frozen several times. AppleCare helps me to get my mouse working again but what a hassle. Bought my first MAC in December 2010 and I have called at least five time with this problem. Two times in the last two days. Now they are sending me a new one as it maybe a defective. You think!!!

Like most Mac users I was excited about this mouse! Sadly it has proven to be extremely annoying to use.

While using the mouse within a browser, or any document in which you can scroll, it will scroll away from what you are trying to do with just the slightest brush of a finger. Often it will scroll when just trying to left click.

I have also found that it regularly doesn't recognize the right click. It always feels as though I am a mouse newbie that doesn't know how to use one at all.

I am tech savvy and have been using this mouse for over a year.