The Mighty Monster (Apple Mighty Mouse)

Member Name: Gold_007

Product:	Apple Mighty Mouse
Date:	26/07/08 (43 review reads)
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Advantages: Lots of features, Well-built, Works smoothly and easily, Modern design

Disadvantages: Scroller can get more easily dirty

I have been using the Mighty Mouse for a month now, and it has performed excellently. It seems almost futuristic, but is just another great gadget from Apple. For £30.99, you can buy the wired mouse from amazon.co.uk. The price is reasonable for the product you are getting as it runs smoothly and has many little tricks.

The mouse is white, following Apple's modern colour scheme. There is a small Apple logo engraved onto the upper face of the mouse where your hand rests. It is shaped as a rather rounded rectangle. On the sides of the mouse, there are two sensitive pads that you can squeeze. This will show you all the current open windows when squeezed. From here, you can hover over the desired window before clicking to access it. This is just one nifty trick that the mouse can do, and is quick and very efficient.

Another unique feature is the scroll button. It is a grey small button that lies towards the front of the mouse. It acts as a scroll, which you can push up, down, left and right to scroll down and across large pages or photos. You can change the scroll sensitivity along with mouse sensitivity in System Preferences on your Mac. The scroll button can also be clicked to access the dashboard. This is where you can quickly access things such as the weather, a calculator and a calendar.

The mouse hides its buttons, as they are not visible. However, they are there and there are two of them! Depending on which side of the mouse you click depends on whether you are left or right clicking. You must set the mouse preferences if you want the right click to be enabled as the default setting is to have one left button click no matter where you click. This is a good feature as the older mice only had a single button. It sometimes is hard to right click as it seems to recognize it as a left click, but that's probably just me being stupid.

Underneath the mouse, you can see its laser, which is sensitive to movement and works very effectively. The mouse smoothly glides across desks and mouse mats. It is very light so doesn't feel awkward to use like the wireless Mighty Mouse. Dirt shows up a bit more, but this makes you more determined to keep it clean, like you should!

Don't forget to feed it cheese.

Thanks for reading

Summary: A very good mouse for any Mac with loads of little tricks it can perform

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