Reviews for Apple Mouse

This is the second mighty mouse I have owned after the first one's scroll wheel failed. The same has now happened this one. I would expect that a company such as Apple would treat it's customers with a little more respect and stop selling such utter rubbish to them. i will not be buying Apple products again.

The Mighty Mouse is, in general, a good mouse. However, like a lot of users I did loose vertical scrolling the other day. Luckily I followed the advice from the reviewer NT on 7th January 2008. This worked and I have regained vertical scrolling. The Mighty Mouse is flawed but as long as you keep it clean it'll be OK!

My scroll bar was not scrolling up and I took the advice written on 8th January, to use a blank piece of paper and it worked! Thank you.

OK, granted, there is a flaw in the design of this mouse, but I bet 90% of mice problems can be solved like this:

1. unplug the mouse from the keyboard
2. turn it upside down
3. roll the scrollwheel in all directions on a blank (clean) piece of paper, in all directions, for 60 seconds
4. re-attach

bingo! works every time. this is a good mouse in both OS X and Windows, I have used it for gaming and is excellent for browsing large webpages or large documents, with its 360 degree scrollwheel. although at times i want to get away from the mouse/keyboard combo (it is 2008 now, after all), at least this Mighty Mouse lessens the pain somewhat.

Hi, having bought a lovely new iMac, and it working fairly well for almost a month, i woke up on new years day to check my emails, and found my Mighty Mouse had totally died; fortunately AppleCare were able to have it replaced, and i am awaiting the new one.

the mouse its self, seemed to be good, it was poor for windows gaming, because the right click was pretty difficult to find... often pressing the right side of the mouse still resulted in a left click being registered.

In Mac, however this mouse was truly fantastic, the squeeze feature was really useful, as was having a ball to scroll around documents, especially for pictures.

If Apple sorted out reliability of this mouse, and made that right click just a little better, i might recommend it!

Scroll ball!

It's a great idea, don't get me wrong! But just because the theory works, it doesn't mean it does in practice. I'm already on my second and the scroll ball on that has stopped working too.

If the troublesome scroll ball was just updated to a touch sensitive pad or something, maybe Apple wouldn't spend so much on replacements for these things?

Apart from the scroll ball, this is a lovely mouse - even if it isn't that ergonomic. I love the 4 buttons and every-time I have to use a boring old PC mouse, I keep finding myself squeezing the sides... but really, the scroll ball lets this down (And the way it gets very filthy very quickly).

Maybe Macworld in the next few weeks will give us an answer to our problems? My MightyMouse has been the only thing wrong with my new Mac, really... and I don't want it to spoil the way my friends and family think of Macs and Apple when they come to use my iMac and find they can't scroll because the scroll ball is broken... because that way, they'll never be convinced to leave their PCs!

See the review entitled 'Method to Clean the Scrollball...' dated Nov 3rd 2007. My scrollball hasn't worked for months. Tried 'the method' and now it does. Hurrah! Thank you so much for passing this on. I too was frustrated with my mouse but refused to pay for a replacement.

LC you get 5 stars. Apple only 2 for the Mighty Mouse (but I still love my iMac G5)

Please Apple do something about this.

Been reading Mighty Mouse reviews - a disconcerting experience. After buying the new updated and top-drawer Mac Mini (super drive), I thought I'd also treat myself to a Mighty Mouse. It's one of the best Mac products I've bought. Period. Listen guys, it does actually do what it says on the box. But, if you use it while guzzling your doughnuts with cream and cafe au lait, well, it's gonna get..., sticky. So what? But, it's easy to sort. Just read the advice! Rub the ball, upside-down, with a damp (not wet) cloth a few times, and it's brand new. Can you guys not read or something??? Just do it and stop grouching! And roll on!

this has got to be the worst thing apple have made. i have gone through two of these now as the scroll wheel breaks just after a few months.
the rest of it seems ok but its the scroll i want.
DO NOT BUY. :(

So along comes Mighty Mouse and completely evolutionizes my work flow. I can't tell you what an improvement this thing makes. I know you can get a stupid ugly looking windows mouse with a scroll wheel for ages but frankly I can't lower my standards. So apple has kicked it big time with this. It's amazing. Having read all of the reviews here I've been anticipating the worst with the wheel, but with bearing all of what I've read in mind, I've once a week used an alcohol wipe to give it a quick clean. 3 months down he track and it's running just as smooth as ever. Of corse it would be nice if I didn't have to clean it, but what are the options? Mighty Mouse or some ugly uninspiring heap of junk design that leaves me feeling sad.. :)

So I've given it 4 stars for the cleaning issue (which may not be a problem at al) AND one other reason...I LOVE the addition of the side squeeze buttons, I have it set to desktop (squeeze buttons and it moves all windows away to reveal the desktop - GENIOUS ! ) but when I'm retouching photos (which is alot of the time) I have to turn it off. The buttons are placed right where my hands hold the mouse and I constantly activate it and end up wanting to throw my Macbook Pro across room.

Normal use how ever it's fine and you can deactvate the function so that nothing happens. BUT...it's SUCH a good feature that I want it and I think it would be better having the buttons some where else. No I can't move my hands, it's where they sit best.