Reviews for Apple Mouse

Seriously, whoever it was that wrote the review that explained to roll the ball over a sheet of paper on a firm surface... Thank you! This will work people. This mouse is awesome, just clean it. I was amazed at the uber grossness that was lurking inside of it. Roll it on the paper and it's like having a new mouse! And like the other reviewer said, stop working with messy hands, wash up. The only complaint I have is where has the right click function gone? If someone knows how to use that, please share.

Addressing Complaints:
I bought my Mighty Mouse with my 20" iMac about 4 months ago. Honest to say, its a beautiful thing. Many complain of the scroll ball's failure. Well four months of my, my parent's and my sibling's use, and it still doesn't EVER get stuck, NEVER! I'm the most frequent user of it, and my hands sweat regularly, and profusely, even my scrolling finger, still no scroll ball death... One that's far less thrown around would be the touch sensitive buttons. Yes, its true you cannot click both at once. If you try, it will primary click. But it has never messed up for me. Firstly, it CANNOT click without user input, since the clicking is not touch sensitive, the choice of which button is being clicked is. Secondly, it does not fail, and can't do so, since it works on such a simple technology.

Upsides:
Too many to mention. It looks stunning, it feels solid, the touch-sensitive buttons are cool, the 360º scroll ball is very useful, it's optical sensor is always dead-on, it glides smoothly across most, if not all surfaces...etc.

Complaints:
Ok, i have two, this is why I gave it a four, rather than a five. !) The cord length is strange, its too short to reach behind your Mac, and its too long to be convenient with the keyboard. 2) I hold my mouse on a slight angle (most do), and it causes my index finger to sit slightly atop the right click area. If they were to fudge the sensing areas a bit, it would help.

The cable is extremely short. However this mouse is wired, so it's performance is better than the wireless magic mouse. It is also much lighter, so moving it around won't be much effort compared to the all glass/aluminum magic mouse.

I use a USB extension cable to plug it to my iMac, and it works great. Also got more keys than the Magic Mouse. The middle button and the side button is all customizable.

Highly recommended.

I've had this mouse since it first came out and I love it. I turned off the side buttons, that made it too busy for me, but the rollerball is great and the mouse works very well.

I did have to clean the roller ball once, and I used some compressed electronic cleaner I got at radio shack, but that was more than a year ago and it's worked great ever since.

Pricey but if you like rollerball scrolling this can be a great mouse.

Excellent mouse, the side-buttons are particularly useful, but as noted the roller-ball stops functioning on a regular basis. I've found the application of cleaning alcohol will free the mechanism, but I think Apple need to be working on a version less susceptible to dust and oil accumulation.

GOOD
- Beautiful
- Comfortable
- Convenient (4 programmable buttons)
- Nice scroll
- Match design on my Macs

BAD
Got one and scroll ball died on me. Got another one and hope for the best now

Yes scroll ball will be unreliable if you are riding in dirt and not keeping it clean.

I have two of these and am getting a third. Simple. And 4 button mouse is absolutely needed if you use your Mac for business. Expose and Spaces (need Total Spaces now for Mountian Lion). I have a Magic Mouse and do not like it - it is missing the side buttons and the 3rd mouse button.

Nothing but thumbs up on this. And the main reason I only give it the 4 stars is the fact that the scroll ball in the mouse with about 100K on it will become unreliable - so go get it fixed/cleaned...!

It's a $45 dollar mouse, not $90.

:)

Lately, I've had increasing trouble with the track ball on my (original) three-year old mouse. After reading suggestions here, I cleaned it first with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, then with rubbing alcohol on a clean cloth. Afterwards, I rolled it around on a clean sheet of paper. Voila! It works like new! No need to spend $50 on a new device; this one is back to like-new condition!

Good mouse, roller ball does not roll any more. Have had for 2 years or so. I really don't want to buy another mouse that is not going to work in a year or two! The mouse also goes on it's own sometimes? Good mouse but as good as I would expect from Apple.

I too had the issue with scrolling due to dirt getting in the scroll ball mechanism. My mouse stopped scrolling up, which was incredibly frustrating.

So a co-worker and I took it apart today. All you need is a swiss army knife or something similar, with a blade to pry it open and a small phillips screwdriver. We took it all apart and cleaned the contacts, put it back together (though we had to use superglue to reattach the bottom frame), and it works great now.

I think I'll try cleaning it without taking it apart in the future, somehow. And remembering to wash my hands after lunch.

But the multi-directional scroll ball is totally worth it. It really speeds up workflow. It took me a while to get used to having the whole body of the mouse for left-click/right-click... and sometimes if I don't have my hand in the exact right place, it right-clicks when I want to left-click. Otherwise, it's great.