Apple Bluetooth Wireless Mighty Mouse
by Apple Computer
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Customer Review: Better than Logitech V270 on Windows XP
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all, I use a Dell notebook with Windows XP not Mac OS. I have been using a Logitech V270, which I like, for about two years. My wife has a Macbook Pro and the Mighty Mouse, both of which I liked a lot. :) But I cannot have the Macbook Pro because of some software need. A few days ago, I found that I can connect the Mighty Mouse to my notebook (Dell Latitude D620) and have all functions the V270 has. So today I got my own Mighty Mouse.
V270 was a good mouse for its time, but the Mighty Mouse is significantly better:
1. The Mighty Mouse is much more accurate than the V270. The difference is very obvious -- with the V270 I may mis-click on right-click menu items. Sometimes I prefer to use my old Logitech wired optical mouse for its accuracy. The Mighty Mouse, however, is as accurate as a wired optical mouse if not better.
2. The Mighty Mouse is lighter than V270. The V270 is heavier without the batteries (as I feel); and it requires two AA batteries while the mighty mouse only needs one (though can use two).
I do find that Apple provides Lithium AA batteries with the Mighty Mouse. What a wise choice. I feel that a Lithium AA battery is only half the weight of an Alkaline battery.
3. I like the shape of the Mighty Mouse. It is wide and flat, while the V270 is narrower and higher. It just feels better with the Mighty Mouse's shape (but this is very personal).
I noticed that right click of the Mighty Mouse is not as decisive as the V270, which is understandable because the Mighty Mouse has no left or right click buttons. I got used to it after a while.
The left and right side buttons may work differently on Windows XP, but that I am not sure and it doesn't matter in my use.
Customer Review: much improved over the previous "wireless pro"
Summary: 5 Stars
A year ago, I wrote a 3 star review for Apple's wireless pro mouse which could be summed up as "great, another 1 button mouse... *yawn*" so I felt I needed to write this review to balance everything out. :)
The wireless mighty mouse is an excellent product. Not only does it stealthily add the much needed right click, which is honestly just too handy to ignore anymore, it also adds a great scroll button which I am fast falling in love with. The scroll wheel on my other mice all seem so tedious anymore whereas before I thought they were great.
After years of trying a range of different devices, I've discovered that what I use the most are left click, right click and scroll. I don't need a thumb button, middle button, pinky button nor any of that; left, right and scroll gives me 100% of what I need. Should you need a couple more buttons, the "squeeze" buttons on the side are there. (I just don't use this functionality at all so no idea how well it works)
That it uses AA batteries is something I actually learned to appreciate with our old wireless pro mouse. (we recently bought a AA powered mouse for our winPC because of this) Every electronic gadget in our house seems to run on AA batteries. We gave in a long time ago and we bought a pile of rechargeable batteries with a good charger. Now we just keep recycling those AAs through all of our remotes, toys, cameras, mice or whatever. My wife HATES wires, you can try to explain the difference between a docking station wire and a regular mouse cord but to her they're all just wires. So, +1 to the wireless mighty mouse here as well. :-) (no worry of forgetting to dock either)
Customer Review: A Major Improvement . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
This mouse is a vast improvement over Apple's one button wireless Mighty Mouse - mostly because you can both left and right click, and assign functions to the other buttons. To see how this works, test one out at an Apple store. While $70 puts this mouse on the pricier side of wireless mice, it does have Bluetooth, whereas many wireless mice require a wireless signal receiver in one of your USB ports (check to see if the other mice you are looking at require a USB port - they often hide this part in the container, so you don't see it until you open it up - which can mean yet another piece of equipment to keep up with and one less USB port)! Ultimately, I chose to go with the Apple mouse because I have confidence in Apple products and, like the other things I have purchased from them, I knew that whatever the best design features were, this mouse would have them. For simplicity, style and configurable buttons this is a nice mouse. There are other options out there about $15 dollars cheaper, but if you are the kind of person who likes to know you got a lot of value for your $, and if you love the useful surprises Apple builds into their products, this is a safe bet.
Don't forget to open System Preferences > Mouse & Keyboard to designate the right click function, 360 degree scrolling and which ever function you prefer for clicking on the scroll ball.
Customer Review: Nice design, LOOOONG battery life
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this mouse for over 6 months now and it's still running on the original batteries that Apple supplied. But your mileage may vary, depending on your usage. I have a Wacom tablet too, so my mousing is light.
As far as the design goes, it's very comfortable. I like the Ivory Soap bar look of it. The scroll nub on top is very useful for scrolling long web pages, but the pinchy buttons on the side are not so nice, due to the lack of force feedback. I've disabled those, as well as the scroll nub click. This is good for older people, like my dad, who aren't as dexterous and prevents accidental clicks. He can push down anywhere on the mouse and I'll click, instead of trying to remember right click or left click, on a more complicated mouse. (He'll click both buttons due to bad finger control).
There's also not a laser beam, like some cheaper optical mice. So, if you have kids, you don't have to worry about them blinding themselves.
It is also true that this mouse can run on 1 battery instead of 2! I wasn't aware until I read the Amazon description. I was skeptical, but I took out 1 battery and it's true.
Customer Review: Best mouse ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I wasn't sure about buying this becasue I had read several reviews saying that the buttons don't register the left/right click very well and that the scroll button breaks within days. I have had mine for over a month and I love it. The person who said they had to lift their finder to get the buttons to register must be pushing down on the mouse really hard because the buttons work just like a normal mouse only they are located in the botton instead of the top. The 360 scroll button is amazing - but again I don't mash down hard on it. If you have very large hands it might not be comfortable but I find it perfect. I turn it on before my computer and it is always synched up by the time the computer is ready. It can take a while to synch up automatically if you turn it on after the computer is already booted up, but I have found it faster and easier to simply manually make the computer synch up with it - it just takes a few seconds. This mouse is very sersatile in that the buttons are completely customizable, it can even be configured for left handed people which I thought was really cool. I would totally recommend this mouse!