Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

Couldn't have a better mouse than this one. I love the touch scroll feature better than any other mouse.

96 of 139 people found this useful

I've used this mouse for about two years now, and must say it's OK, but could be better.

The "pro" part is: design (looks cool), connectivity via bluetooth (never had problems with that, though I sometimes had to restart my Mac so it could "see" the mouse), and scrolling (though there's some about this in the "con" part as well).

The "con" part: eats batteries - about 6 per month (when working/designing everyday), scrolling is nice (but for the price - should be more precise), price is high, and it sometimes confuses right/left clicks.

All in all, I've gotten used to it, and I work with it everyday, but improvements need to be made to meet the price vs value requirements.

53 of 54 people found this useful

This is by far the worst mouse I've ever own. I'm a photographer and I spend a lot of time in front of my computer editing. I bought this because of its wireless capabilities, however, It is so uncomfortable to work with. After the first hours my wrist was really in pain and the pain increases as you use it.

It's is a nice looking mouse and it goes pretty good with your laptop, but I you are considering buying this to work doing edition you should consider another one

60 of 69 people found this useful

After using this mouse at home, I find it very difficult to go back to a Logitech BT mouse on my work computer. Then again, I get the 'why is a PC so difficult to use and so slow' feeling on every windows PC I've ever used. This mouse, was 2 steps on OSX, batteries in, power on, (wait 5 seconds or so) mouse working! On windows, just like any other bluetooth mouse, 10+ steps, a download, a bunch of balloon popups, more balloon popups, a failure or two, reboot, another download a bunch of next, next, ok, next, next, yes, ok, Agree, next, next, and struggle to work, struggle to keep Bluetooth connection. This I would not blame on Apple, but don't buy this thinking because it's an Apple mouse, that your PC will magically work better. If you have an iMac, this is the only mouse for you!

MagicPrefs free software will allow you to customize the mouse and pad to your liking. Swipes, gestures, click area's, secret app shortcut taps if you want!

The first generation mouse batteries lasted 6 months for me. This second magic mouse came with my 27" iMac. The batteries last 4 weeks max. I need to go to the person I sold my '08 iMac to, and secretly swap the mouse, he'll never know. Apple, if you are listening, I would gladly pay 99$ for a 6,000 MAH lithium ion equipped 1 year rechargeable battery + dock. Or even a inductive charging mouse pad, so it never needs charging!

55 of 60 people found this useful

Multi-touch design is good.

But the mouse itself is too small even for my medium size hand.
Awesome if you only need the mouse for 5min.
Start hurting my hand after using it for 20min.

61 of 72 people found this useful

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.

50 of 52 people found this useful

Magic mouse is a battery hog. My office Logitech wireless mouse with 5 buttons has also two AA cells but out lasts Magic mouse 5 to 1. I used my office mouse longer per day than my home Apple mouse. For 18 months I haven't needed battery cells for Logitech while my Apple Magic mouse eats battery cells almost every 4 months. I suspect it is a poor design and consumes power every time your hand touches it. So if you are thinking or reading a document with the hand resting on the mouse, it continues to draw power even when no action is occurring.

74 of 100 people found this useful

This is a great feeling mouse, the scrolling and clicking work very well but...... with the latest software update and the fastest setting for tracking that is available it is about half as slow as a mighty mouse. This is a real problem on largish (mine is a 24" iMac) display.

78 of 108 people found this useful

This mouse is so great I'm buying another one, I just can't stand the old mouse, it has no function anymore, the Magic Mouse is the creators dream!

50 of 53 people found this useful