Reviews for Apple Mouse

I received one for christmas - I have a couple at work and love them. After using it for just a couple of hours it started creaking and generally feels cheap. I compared it to the one attached to my wife's 2 year old imac and her's feels solid (as do mine at work). I took it back to the store and they replaced it for a new one. Just got home and began using it and this one feels flimsy as well! It literally squeaks (no pun intended) every time you even slightly press down on the top of the mouse. I guess I'll try returning it again for another and see if the third time's the charm.

Come on Apple. 2.5 stars. You've gotta have customer service peeps reading this junk. I loved it while it worked, but it's the same story. Broken scroller ball. Impossible to clean. Fix this product or design a new one!

Although all the bad ratings I said, "ok this is Apple, it is not going to happen to me"...well my friend I was wrong. On my first 2 months using it I can supply this negative experiences:

PROS:
-the 360º scroll ball is much lighter than any other product on the market. It really makes any other mouse being a 'Flingstones' product. Ok that's the only thing good but...here the cons.

CONS:
- the 360º scroll ball stopped working, but no worries you solve it easily by turning your mouse over and scrolling the ball with 1 or 2 little hits on it. No wipe needing. It will make your scroll ball works again.


- The secondary button (right one - touch sensitive) it does work, but sometimes when you want to press it the only you get is that the smart button works instead (left one), not the one on the right. I said "well, some practice will make I handle it well", but on my first 15 years using mac this is the worst tragedy, even far worse than the rounded mouse. It is not trustable at all.

- The previous mouse I had (that came with my iMAC G5) worked very smooth over my pad, OK, this mouse had lot of problems when I tried to go to small details on my screen (ie Photoshop retouchings, etc) the pointer didn't go where I wanted, so here was the problem: "the pad", so I had to take my pad out and using the mouse straight over my desktop table (wood), it works good now but it still have some directions problems.

- Its price, it doesn't definitely worth to buy it. Not value for money.


In this 2 months using it the only I wonder is: "Is this really an Apple product", "Who named it as "Mighty"???

No offense but instead of wasting money on this one I'd prefer to get a Micros... one, it looks like a 'Flingstones" scroll wheel (noisy and rough), BUT it is solid as rock, not like this little Mighty one!!, unstable and expensive.

Hope this review had been useful for you. Thanks for reading.

About 4 months ago I purchased an IMac and it came with a wired Mighty Mouse. I started having the scroll down problem within a matter of days. Since I'd only had it for a short time I suspected that I had a connection problem rather than a dirt/grime problem. I found that simply pushing on the wire where it enters the mouse fixed the problem. The problem reoccurs every couple of weeks or so and so far pushing on the wire fixes it. I'm sure I'll end up replacing it before my warranty expires.

This is a great idea but needs further research. There is no visible distinction between the left and right button so many times I've had to click the very front edge of the mouse to register a right click. Side buttons and top scroll button work fine. Since it is a white glossy finish, it is bound to get dirty with "real world hands" as another reviewer put it. I usually clean it with a household cleaner once a week to keep it from looking grimy. Maybe the mouse should have been silver since my iMac that it came with is ALL silver/aluminum and a matte finish? Just a suggestion to Apple. This mouse is mostly useless for those that need to use with any digital media, graphic design or any content creation software. I'd go with a nice Logitech, Microsoft mice sometimes freak out even though they are claimed to work with Mac's.

Our OEM mouse worked well, but wore out too quickly in our opinion. Not quickly enough to be covered under warranty, but not slow enough to be worth replacing.

The mouse is wonderful. It works great, it looks great, and I love the customization options.

It's absolutely absurd, however, that Apple didn't do something about the awful trackball that literally stops working every other day. I'm on my second Mighty Mouse (trackball actually broke on that one), and have to clean the trackball on this one every week. Even then, its ability to scroll down is dodgy.

I'd give it a 5-star review if it weren't for the horrible trackball.

I like the design with it's few seams and innovative scroll ball. I liked it's function, while it did so, well.

However, i've only been using it a few months and it's operability has degraded quickly. Relatively early on i noticed delays when trying to bring up contextual menus with the right button, or failure to do so altogether. Sometimes i have to right-click more than once, or hold it down. Sometimes a right-click registers as a left-click unless i make sure to press far to the right from center.

Second to go was the ball. I've always liked having the 360° scroll capability, but the small tactile clicks of the ball have become irregular when attempting to scroll down, the most used direction. Any times when the click doesn't feel right, scrolling is erratic.

Time for a new mouse and i won't be getting another Mighty Mouse, corded or wireless. 4 stars when it's working, but 2 overall because it lasted such a short time.

This mouse seem to work sometimes just fine but most of the time at least for me its laggy and the scroll doesn't work that good at all. Put your money on a better mouse!

I love using this mouse, but it drives me insane. The 360 scroll ball breaks so easily. It just stops working randomly. But, when it works, this mouse is very fun and helpful to use.