apple's magic mouse?

I think it's terrible. It doesn't allow multi-button presses: it treats LMB + RMB as LMB alone. This doesn't work with some of my software.
 
lynnb said:
I gave up on mice. We have cats. I use a tablet instead.
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My cat was too lazy to catch mice, so I have always used them.

I have the "Mighty Mouse", and love it except the tiny ball scroll wheel, which never works right, it gets jammed with dirt too easy and is hard to clean. I haven't tried the Magic Mouse yet. If mine dies, I suppose I'll get the newer one.
 
I use a Magic Mouse at the office and like it in general. But I turn off the scrolling feature when using a spreadsheet document, where otherwise it's just too skittery. At home I have the Bluetooth trackpad, not so fond of that as fine control is difficult. In all, I prefer the Magic Mouse. No jittery screen with either; I wonder what would cause that... Check the Mouse settings in System Prefs?
 
Joe, you probably don't realize that you can swipe side to side on the mouse, as you can on an Apple trackpad. You can even side-swipe with two fingers to get to your previous web page or what have you. The whole surface is like a trackpad. That's why the jittering--you need to control your finger motion a little better with this mouse. If you don't like this you can disable it in settings I presume.
 
I like the Magic Mouse and use one at work all day. I did like it's predecessor with the tiny scroll wheel which I use sometimes at home with my MacBook but it seems not to work so well now and I have reverted to a simpler wired mouse.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
My cat was too lazy to catch mice, so I have always used them.

I have the "Mighty Mouse", and love it except the tiny ball scroll wheel, which never works right, it gets jammed with dirt too easy and is hard to clean. I haven't tried the Magic Mouse yet. If mine dies, I suppose I'll get the newer one.
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The newer one is much better in this respect.

But, if you want to clean your scroll ball, try putting a piece of paper on the table, turning your mouse upside down, and rolling it around a bunch on the paper.
 
It's my favorite aspect of my Mac. Set up the preferences to your liking and it can do most anything with just the mouse. It does use up batteries though if you're like me and don't turn it off.
 
I always ditch the mouse when I get a new Mac, considering this is the company that popularized the use of the mouse, Apple is really bad at making them. I find them fiddly and small, and I don't have big hands. I'd say, save the pennies and get a Logitech or something, cheaper and probably better.

My brother likes the desktop trackpad though, never tried it myself.
 
Joe,

The system preferences has animated instructions then find parameters that work for you. Maybe you should change your mouse pad?

My Magic Mouse is so good I quit using my Bamboo drawing tablet for selective adjustments during photo processing.

The swipe gestures are useful too.
 
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