You broke my layout…

As for the mice, it’s about time.

Actually, for the time being, the wireless single-button Bluetooth mouse is still available on the Apple Store.  No indication of how long it’ll stay there, though.

Looks like the Zealots will have a field day if this gets out. (Not that they aren’t having one already, but...)

Ok,major brain fart. Could I get an admin to move my above to Clay’s latest blog? If not, just ignore it.

I have the Mighty Mouse now and I don’t care for it.  It’s better than a single button mouse but not particularly interesting.  For one, the side buttons are not easy to use and take away from aesthetics.

The nipple is OK but I want to see how much a scrolling trackpad might be superior.

Why should apple sell a one button mouse when the mightly mouse can be configured to act as a single button mouse?

Perhaps one day, the mighty mouse will ship with each new mac, with only one button enabled.

Thus sticking with the one button mantra.

Regards

joe

I’ve got a wireless one-button bluetooth mouse I used one time and would be willing to part with.

Why should apple sell a one button mouse when the mightly mouse can be configured to act as a single button mouse?

Perhaps one day, the mighty mouse will ship with each new mac, with only one button enabled.

Thus sticking with the one button mantra.

Regards

joe

The only problem with this is that average consumers don’t know how to change it (in fact, I don’t think they know how to change much of anything).  Apple would probably need to have some sort of detection script in the first-run program to ask if they want to use their Mighty Mouse as a 1-button or a multi-button mouse.

For a company that makes such great products that I love to use everyday, Apple knows jackcrap about making mice.  They have made some of the worst working and impractical mice of all time!  When it comes to mice, they just don’t “get it”.

I disagree with OSX.

I LOVE Apple one button mice. The shape of the proMouse is just right for my small hands. Other mice just feel like a bar of soap in my hands and is difficult to get used to especially when the mouse is the primary device for working in illustrator or painter.

I can’t use any other regular mice without getting carpal tunnel. In fact I tried using the MS IntelliMouse Explorer. That huge thing gave me carpal tunnel so quickly I gave up using in a week. It feels like most mice are made for people with huge hands.

I have been looking for a multi-button mouse to use with certain programs that require multi-button mice and have not found anything I could use until Apple introduced their new multi-buton mouse.

That’s interesting, because I love my 5-button Intellimouse.  But then, I don’t have small hands.  I don’t think Apple makes bad mice, though… except for the hockey puck mouse, which was too small.

Why don’t you like Apple mice, OSX?  How are they so impractical?

I have to agree the puck mouse sucked. IMHO the best mouse Apple ever made is the white translucent ProMouse. It’s pretty to look at and yet extremely comfortable for my hand. I will miss it when it’s gone. It’s too bad that the new Mighty Mouse is opaqe.

I don’t miss multiple button mice, I just use the control key. Unfortunately some programs like Maya insists on multiple button mice, so I will have to bite the bullet and get a Mighty Mouse at some point. I’m still not convinced to buy wireless mice and keyboards yet, the batteries run down too quickly.

Tried the MM today and was not impressed :

- felt heavy compared to the older mouse

- little trackball mouse was not very useful at all

- 2 side buttons were just wierd

The older mouse was slow and cumbersome, this new one although with more things to play on was not quite the revolution that I was expecting.

The trackball seemed to be able to scroll a webpage (horizontally and vertically), but you would have to do a hell of a lot of finger work to scroll properly (scroll wheel is way easier to use).

Side buttons confused me.  You don’t actually press them, just squeeze them together like if you were squeezing a stress ball.

I would not call the latest mouse mighty in any sense of the word, but more like a mouse who’s gained a bit of weight and has a bitch-tit

Aren’t the side buttons in the same position that used to be used for the solid part of the mouse body, i.e. the part that you’d hold to pick the thing up?  Seems they’ve taken away a piece of its stability by putting buttons there.