I found out from a friend that to accurately get a right-click, you must take your finger off of the left-click sensor. I find this to be true, but even after discovering this all-but Apple trade secret, my general level of frustration while using this product has not gone down one bit.
It is also too much to ask to re-learn how to use a mouse. No one lifts their left finger off of the mouse to perform a right-click. Apple should have thought of this when designing this very "touchy" input device.
All I wanted was a multi-button mouse from Apple — one with actual buttons. Give me at least two buttons and a scroll wheel. Make it the same size/shape as the Pro Mouse, and be done with it. Why get all fancy?
The Mighty Mouse has nice features no doubt. The side "squeeze" buttons are a nice touch, but nothing revolutionary. These work about as well as trying to use the right-click sometimes, however.
These side buttons would have worked out better had they been touch-sensitive, ironically. Instead they are force sensitive, and it just takes too much of a squeeze for it to register.
The 360-degree scroll "nub" is the best part of the mouse. Being able to scroll left and right is an enormous boost to productivity. Being able to lock movement to the four cardinal directions would have been a nice check box in the preferences. You also gain the fourth button press on the Mighty Mouse by pressing the "nub" down.
I am getting used to the scroll "nub" though, it is my favorite aspect of the Mighty Mouse.
The software works great. You can plug the Mighty Mouse into any Mac (if you are running at least 10.4.2) and it is recognized, the buttons instantly customizable. It works in Windows 2000 and XP, though It does not ship with software. You would have to use the standard input driver in Windows to configure the Mighty Mouse.
Article comments
1 - Bryan
I've been using mine for several months (since it was first released) and haven't had a single problem like the one you described.
2 - Nik
I agree totally, these new mouses are terrible. They put one on my computer at work and after one day I told them to give me back my old mouse.