Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

As with any device, it takes some time to get used to, but I now find myself using it more intuitively than my old mouse. The only negative is that I now have difficulties using a mouse on another computer.

Mouse works great. Plug and play. I was able to use within minutes. Apple's packaging was really impressive. They made sure to include friendly cushion in the box and my mouse was secured upon arrival.. They really take care of shipping their products to you.

The magic mouse isn't perfect, but once you get used to it, other mouses (mice) are clunky, with wheels and buttons. The ergonomics are good too. Once in a while I lose the connection, but it usually pops right back.

I mainly bought this mouse so I can use the functionality with my MBP. I find it a bit heavy, and the clicks some time isn't as responsive. I downloaded MagicPrefs to tweak a few settings to make it better. The swiping/gestures works great. Its awesome when i'm surfing the web and navigating. It will take time to get use to thats for sure. Still a good product, but I still prefer my logitech mouse with certain computer tasks.

I've been using this mouse for almost a month now and I have both good and bad things to say about it. First of all the concept of the mouse is fantastic! The touch screen top is unlike any other mouse out there and brings a new aspect to computing. Scrolling around 360 degree in documents is excellent. Although it is fun and ingenious, I feel like the quality of the mouse doesn't live up to the Apple standards that I have come to love. Every other product that I have bought from Apple has felt solid and well constructed and performed in the most optimum way I could imagine. Now the top part of this mouse is fine. It the bottom of it that bugs me. The silver plastic on the bottom just doesn't feel right and gives a cheap feeling to the mouse. Another concern and my biggest one at that, is the slidability™ of the mouse. I thought that this device was going to have a cadillac type luxury slide across my mousepad pre-judging by my previous experiences with Apple products. Instead the black rails on the bottom offer no such thing. The slide is far from luxurious. My old logitech mx518 offered a nicer slide. My last concern is the lack of middle mouse button support without third party applications. I'm sort of a purist in this area and try to use as little 3rd party apps as possible when dealing with hardware made by the same company as the computer/operating system. I think Apple should release a patch to fix it so we don't have to use MagicPrefs or something equivalent. Sometimes when working in Maya I will plug in my old mouse just because it's easier and faster to distinguish the 3 mouse buttons to navigate quickly around my objects. Even with these issues I still give this mouse 4 stars because it's just awesome. If they ever do release another version, a more luxurious sturdier version, I will be sure to buy it.

This mouse es very nice, in first touch it feels a little unconfortable beacause is different, but in a while you feel that is really light and smooth to use. I love it, but after the software update, the default leopard speed configuration was great and after the upgrade, the magic mouse become slow and hard to move the pointer faster, it should be twice faster, please apple team, make it possible beacause the mouse is fantastic and the scroll is very nice. If you read that and have the same feeling, write about this...

I really like this mouse. It works flawlessly and if you use Logic or FCP it's great for scrolling along the timeline with a simple slide of the finger. Although I miss having extra buttons I find I'd rather do without them now than go back to the old style mouse.

I do wish they would release the next upgrade of software for this mouse since the software you get now is very basic. Once they include all the potential moves you could have it'll be fantastic.

I found the mouse too be absolutely a dream to use, the controls are intuitive and movement with the mouse is flawless. But the only problem I have with the mouse is that its extremely fragile, I carried it in my school bag once inside of its case. The mouse didn't fit perfectly in the case and it ended up bumping around in it. This ended up creating many tiny little micro fractures in the mouse and it now looks really ugly.

I have tested this mouse numerous times in the past several days at different Apple stores as they haven't yet been available in Dallas, TX.

Like everyone else I was impressed by the multi-tech technology.
The momentum option works exactly as expected.
There is no more roller-ball to get clogged with debris.

After a little experimentation with using less finger pressure you can learn to scroll left-to-right without moving the pointer. The double-finger paging is slightly trickier as you almost have to let go with the other fingers.

If you use Google maps please test this out as the Magic Mouse seems to add a few unexpected zoom actions while navigating the map.

Button 3 went away.
If you use the Terminal and are used to selecting text and "quick-pasting" with the center mouse button (Button 3) you will now have to select, cut, then paste. Where the "quick-pasting" was just one mouse click, the cut and paste requires four mouse clicks. Dragging the selected text is still an option but requires a little more skill than the "quick-pasting".

I'm not sad about the side buttons going away. For me they were a little awkward to use.

My ergonomic concern is that the Magic Mouse is slightly too flat. I found my fingers starting to ache after 20-30 minutes of use - which never happened with my Mighty Mouse. Flat is great for a track pad, but the difference is that your hand still wants to hold the mouse.

Yeah it doesn't right click, so if you are putting microsoft or some other big right click using program in your MAC computer, you need a different mouse. And the battery cover comes off once each couple weeks and I put it back on in 20 seconds.
But with my mac mini no problem. I don't even use a track pad-just the tabletop. And there's a bump on my table where a finishing nail rises up on the surface and I hit it about once every 2 weeks with the mouse and knock off my battery cover, put the cover back on then I go pound the nail down again.
I also rest the heel of my hand on the table while I finger scroll. I can rest my thumb on one side and little finger on the other side on the table for rest also. If your hands are small you could only rest on one side.
This is not a horrible mouse like the old hockey puck mouse. Go to a mac store, best buy, etc if you can and try one.
My only complaint: it eats batteries every 3 months so to be ecological you need rechargeable batteries. I've had this mouse 1 & 1/2 years.