Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

This mouse is great if you are NOT doing any design or film-making work. If you do, be extra careful with your fingers because it can easily "misread" your movements and go on its own through layers and levels, spoiling your work.

I personally prefer the mighty mouse. I miss having the ability to go between windows by pressing its side buttons (a functionality that the magic mouse doesn't have).

It is a cool device but it doesn't have as many features as older models

It looks great but if you are doing graphic design and/or DTP, I wouldn't recommend because the mouse has magic touch and it will keep moving the canvas.
It really frustrate me and it ended up HURTING my entire wrist which I had no problem with Wireless Mighty Mouse.
Also, it feels so HEAVY when you click.

so I went back to Wireless Mighty Mouse.

This mouse looks great but is overpriced and tracks horribly! It doesn't recognize fine movement very well at all which has become quite frustrating. Furthermore, the two button feature has begun to malfunction after about a month. It only recognizes that I have clicked on something about 75% of the time. So I've found myself shaking the mouse to get it to track better and making multiple clicks much more often than I would like. I would recommend staying with the corded version of this mouse.

I found the Magic Mouse to be of limited use. It's a great mouse for web surfing, but difficult to use in any other application. It's absolutely horrible at gaming. Third party apps like Magic Perfs greatly extend the features of the mouse. But features do not equate to utility. The touch surface is hard to use while holding the mouse. Multi-touch is a nice feature, but it causes more problems than it's worth. Ergonomically, the mouse isn't very good either. It's too flat and doesn't slide very well. I see this device as a great gizmo, but it's not too useful.

I love the look and feel of the mouse. My only problem is that the cover for the batteries will not stay on and is very annoying. I have given up on it and now use it without the cover.

It works very well, even if it is slightly too sensitive with unintentional horizontal scrolling.
However, I feel strange itchiness pain on my third fingertip which touches the mouse. Does nobody feel that??

I went from using a corded Apple Mighty Mouse to using the Magic Mouse, and I'm seriously considering returning the Magic Mouse and just using my regular old Mighty Mouse.

First off, the difference in weight is very noticeable, the Mighty weighing in at 77g (2.7oz), and the Magic at 105g, fully one ounce heavier. This may not sound like much, but it's about a 37% increase in weight, which is very noticeable when you're not used to heavier mice. (This isn’t exactly a fair comparison, though, as the difference is not nearly as pronounced when going from one wireless mouse to another. Batteries can add a considerable amount of weight.)

Second is the lack of buttons. While the Magic has the touch features, they don't make up for losing the ability to click the scroll wheel, and the 4th (side) buttons are completely absent. I'm very used to using my scroll button for a contextual menu button in many applications, and having it go away seriously hamstrings my productivity.

Third, the touch surface of the mouse itself is far too smooth and glossy, causing my fingers to grip rather than slide across the surface. This results in undue strain on the hand from trying to hold the mouse steady while swiping two fingers across, compounded by the fact that I cannot press down to hold the mouse steadier, because the entire top surface is a button and will click under light pressure.

The only reason I gave this device two stars instead of one is because it just looks ridiculously awesome, and the gesture-based actions work fantastically well with Apple’s iLife suite.

Beyond iLife, though, I only wish that overall it functioned as well as it looks.

I have used this mouse (or rather tried to), and I must say that there is a huge flaw with the design of the mouse. The flaw is that this mouse is too flat with nothing for the hand to hold on to, forcing you to place your palm flat over the mouse, or cause a cramp if otherwise. I do not feel comfortable resting my entire hand flat on the mouse because it feels awkward and there is not enough control. This mouse should be made meatier so the user can grab on to it and hold it comfortably in the hand. This one flaw makes this mouse unusable. I recommend that you physically try this mouse and see how you like the feel of it.

It's sleek as only an Apple product can be, but it comes with two major letdowns:

1) The battery life is rather poor: 1-2 months with branded alkaline batteries

2) The scroll-sensitive are is very large and you can't change it in settings. This means a lot of accidental scrolling that can be quite annoying

I am always interested in design but form without function doesn't do it for me. I'm finding that while Apple designs the best notebooks (13 Macbook Pro Unibody is my latest), Microsoft designs the best mice!

Who would have thought.