Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

And now it’s time for my two cents about the new wireless Mighty Mouse I received yesterday.

It’s a mouse. I move it, and the little arrow on the screen moves in a synchronized fashion. I don’t notice that the new laser tracking mechanism is any more accurate than the optical mechanism in my other Apple wireless mouse, which I never thought was inaccurate to begin with. I’ve had to consciously force myself to start using the scroll ball and the right-click. That’ll take me some time to get used to, and I never thought the absence of those two things was a big deal. The scrolling works, um, fine, but I don’t think repetitively moving my finger over the scroll ball is better than clicking-and-dragging the scroll bar in the window.

I like being able to push in the scroll ball to bring up my dashboard. That’s a handy feature I’ve already gotten used to. As for the side buttons, I have those assigned to Expose, all windows, and I find the buttons hard to push. It takes a good squeeze to activate them. Then again, I don’t know that I’d want them to be too sensitive because every time I grabbed the mouse they’d activate, and that would be annoying.

The wireless Mighty Mouse looks and feels a bit cheaper than the regular Apple wireless mouse, in my opinion. It doesn’t have the same kind of clear coat finish, and the plastic seems like it’s thinner or something. I liked the gray Apple logo underneath the clear coat as opposed to the indented one stamped in the Mighty Mouse, but that’s just personal preference.

The Mighty Mouse is definitely lighter than the other mouse, but I never considered the other mouse too heavy to begin with. And as for one battery operation, I’m not sure what rational person would exclude a mouse from their on-the-go set-up because of the weight of a single AA battery, although I know those people exist.

Overall, I’m happy with it. I was happy with the regular Apple wireless mouse too.