Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

I've had this mouse for a few years and it still works just as good as when I first bought it. Great mouse.

I've never hated an apple product before - yes that's right HATED BUT I HATE THIS ONE. Your magic mouse regular sends my pages off to god knows where just about the time I finish writing them and requires I start all over again. I've had it with this useless piece of junk. I've made every effort to learn what the magic is to getting this to stop bouncing my pages around and snatching them away and I'm finally giving up. It is unstable, unpredictable, and I'm bringing this piece of JUNK back to the store tomorrow for an old fashioned wired mouse if necessary. Someone really screwed up on this one. Steve Jobs would not be very pleased with this mouse that acts like a rat. I urge who ever is considering buying one of these things not to do it. You'll be sorry if you do.

I have two Magic Mice. One stays with a Macbook Air; the other with a MacBook Pro.

The mouse with the Air works flawlessly. It never disconnects from the Air, even at low battery levels.

The mouse with the MacBook Pro? Well, to use a technical term: Its relationship with the MBP is poor. In the past half hour (at 96 percent of battery level), it has disconnected three times. It has become a routine occurrence. The MPB is running 10.8.1.

So, is it the mouse? The MPB? The OS? I don't know. All I know is this combination doesn't work satisfactorily. Thus I am a dissatisfied Apple consumer. But of what? Mouse? Mac? The OS?

Wish I knew. (And then Apple tells me some words cannot be used in my review. None I used was profane. Thanks, Big Brother.)

I've got at least four of these. I love the finger action for scrolling; I'm going to miss that. I love the simple feel of it. But this mouse just has problems. It eats up batteries like crazy. I always have to have two mice ready for a work week, one mouse has a charger, one goes on batteries. I keep a pack of batteries at all times. But this mouse can't be trusted. Sometimes it will just quit working -- new batteries, charged up... doesn't matter. It just disconnects. Sometimes, it simply won't track. That is the most annoying. I'm trying to work and I'm constantly fiddling with this mouse to see what the problem is now: need batteries? bad surface? hates my dress?

I can never trust that this mouse is going to work and I am sick of it.

Don't leave your uncharged batteries in. It happened to me. I tried to changed them for new ones and it wouldn't go on. On Technical Support they said that it died. And that the warranty works for only 3 months. You would expect more form an Apple product and as an industrial designer myself I feel very dissapointed.

The mouse has its pros and cons,

PROS:
its sleek and has a very nice finish to it.

CONS:
its quiet expensive then again it is a touch mouse and its from apple. Also, swiping on the mouse is a bit clumsy and at time diffcult.


I plan on getting the trackpad and seeing how that works. i hope it works better!

i really like the feel of this mouse, and love the multitouch when it's implemented well in the app i'm using. but there are a few things that drive me nuts about this mouse:

1. this mouse eats AA batteries like a hyper kid eats candy from a Halloween pumpkin. i go through a pair a month. makes me wish for a wired version.

2. right-click is unreliable. after enabling it in system preferences, sometimes i get a right click and sometimes i don't. not a fan of the alternative (having to hold down control key).

3. can't tweak scroll speed sensitivity. try playing a game with this mouse that uses the scroll wheel as an input and you'll see what i mean.

i'm just about ready to dump this mouse for one with distinct buttons and a regular scroll wheel.

Apple's Magic Mouse is visually beautiful and well built, but a challenge to use. The shape doesn't fit naturally to the hand. The lack of conspicuously different buttons causes unwanted scrolling. The position of the sensor is too far forward causing the cursor to halt when the mouse moves to the top of the mouse pad. In brief, the mouse movements are unpredictable.

I love the mouse. But today started getting the "Connection lost" syndrome. Even with a fresh set of batteries and the control panel showing 100% and a reboot. I'll see how long I can tolerate this and if it doesn't get better I may have to go the Logitech route. Shame too because it is easy to use left or right handed.

Magic mouse is really a magic!
Design is fantastic and features are versatile. In most times, I do not need keyboard because I can control my mac book with many kinds of gestures. If you install magic prefs, which is for free, you can add more gestures such as tip the apple logo or swipe four fingers. You can also assign short cuts in Magicprefs. So I play and stop itunes tipping apple logo on my magic mouse. Isn't it cool?

Also it is robust. A couple of logitech mice I have used could not last more than eight months; however, magic mouse has no problem so far for more than one year.