Reviews for Apple Mouse

Well, the 3rd time is not a charm. I refuse to call Apple Support to go through meaningless options (restarts, trying to scroll, purchasing a lint free cloth for $5, etc.) to try and get the track ball to work. As always it doesn't scroll down just like the last 2 so I went to Best Buy and bought a Logitech Wireless VX Revolution for $25 after rebate. It was well worth the purchase and to avoid the hassle of having Apple go through other things where they know good and well the mouse is defective.

And for the people that rate it 5 stars? They must be smoking something. The person that says it doesn't work because they don't use it properly, and must not keep care of things? Well I don't live in a pig sty, I'm a clean person and the bottom line is I refuse to wear surgical gloves to run a mouse. My Microsoft mouse at work has been used and abused for 3 years and still works great. The not so Mighty Mouse wouldn't have lasted a month in a work environment. One thing positive? Apple lets users rate their products whereas other companies may not thus hiding negative comments. The next step is for Apple to do something about it.

Wont work on a standard surface (apple magic mouse and other mouses do), cord is ridiculously short and its pricey. Bad combination.

I really want to like this mouse, I went out of my way to purchase an Apple mouse for $50 and for a few months it was great. I use it at work and am a Graphic Designer so ease of use was very important to me. Right away I was annoyed by the lack of right-click but got used to it. Also, the "touch sensitive top" isn't. Then one day the ball became gummed up and no amount of "rub it on your shirt" or "use and alcohol pad" was doing the trick so I too it apart (not without scratching up the mouse first) and after fiddling with the micro-sized parts managed to clean it and get it working again, for a few months. Now, 8 months after buying it I am ready to toss it into the trash. Out of the blue, my left scroll is not working and I am going back to my 6 year old Logitech which I never should have put away in the first place and still works as good as the day I bought it.

I love you Apple, but you need to face the fact that a persons first point of contact with a computer is the mouse and if it does not work, you ruin the experience of the whole machine.

I own two of these things, one at work and one at home. Both of have exactly the same problems.

First, reliability is bad. Wwithin a month they start loading up with dirt and you have to clean them regularly. By the year mark, both had lost one direction on the ball - one won't scroll left, the other won't scroll up.

Second, the error rate for right click vs left click is too high. If you don't have your fingers fairly precisely positioned, you'll get left when you want right or vice-versa. The design of the mouse does nothing to ameliorate this, as the front is a smooth fixed-radius curve.

Frankly, I'm giving up on these and going back to a real two-button mouse, with a real scroll wheel, with real ergonomics. Apple should be ashamed of making a poorly designed failure-prone product. That they charge a premium price for it is just adding injury to insult.

I can't believe Apple designed this mouse.

Every Apple product I own is AMAZINGLY well designed - even down to the lowly Apple remote.

But, this mouse is TERRIBLE. The right click never works properly, and the scroll wheel... oh the scroll wheel... I have nightmares about it.

The reason we switched to laser mice is because wheel mice kept clogging up. So who in the F thought it would be a good idea to essentially use an upside-down wheel mouse instead of a scroll wheel?

After a couple of months and a few cleaning attempts I bought a white Microsoft Arc Mouse for $38 and it works beautifully with Snow Leopard. The only functionality that I lost was the (useless) horizontal scroll.

Please apple, redesign the mouse...

The "Mighty Mouse" is an example of poor design. The base picks up dirt easily and, worse still, the scroll button pulls dirt inside the mouse and stops it working. insertion of thin paper around the ball helps to clear any obstruction temporarily - but once once problems start it is only a matter of time before the mouse seizes up completely.

This brings us to the worst feature - the mouse is a sealed unit which cannot be taken apart for cleaning. Once it bungs up - there is no remedy.

Surely, the manufacturers could provide a dirt-proof seal - or provide a means of access for cleaning.

A poor and unreliable product not worthy of the Apple label.

The ball gets dirty and works down but not up. The ball gets dirty and works up but not down. Tape, rubbing alcohol, dismantle and clean, more tape. What a joke. Now the clicking lags or barely works. One star for you! Sure looks pretty though.

As an expert user who understood how the mouse works, I immediately loved it. The 2D scroll ball was great. Sure, I had clogging problems, but I had no issue clearing them.

Then I saw what happened when I put my "easy to use" computer in front of novices. There is absolutely no visual cue that this is a four-button mouse. Inevitably, someone clicks on the ball, calling Dashboard up. Or they get nervous and trigger the squeeze buttons, starting Expose. And there is absolutely nothing that immediately shows the user that tapping the left half is different than tapping the right half.

Lastly, for gamers, this major is a disaster. I was playing Quake, and right-clicked to zoom the scope in, and couldn't hit the trigger (left click) because the shell was already articulated, and couldn't register a click separate from the other button! This mouse is an odd Apple product, in that form clearly trumped function here.

I've gone through two of these mice. Neither managed to last two months. The scroll wheel constantly malfunctions despite cleaning it. Very costly for something that doesn't work. Apple can build an amazing computer, yet something as simple and necessary as mouse seems to have them baffled.