Wasn't Mighty Mouse a cartoon character? (Apple Mighty Mouse)

Member Name: LastLine

Product:	Apple Mighty Mouse
Date:	04/06/09 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: Variety of buttons in a simple design

Disadvantages: Breaks easily.

It seems such a strange thing to be reviewing a mouse, but this one seems to be particularly worthy of it.

As an Apple product it naturally has a very sleek and simplistic design. The round shape of the device is perhaps not the most comfortable fit as it lacks the ergonomic design that you see on many mice these days, but it fits comfortably in the palm of the hand.

The device consists of 4 seperate buttons. A left click (as anyone would expect to work) a right click (that works by taking your left finger off of the mouse and using the right hand side) a 'squeeze' made by squeezing the sides in, and a middle click on the scroll ball. These are fully customisable allowing you to use each button for whatever you desire. Currently I use (on my Mac) the left button as standard click, right button for Ctrl Click, Squeeze for Dashboard and middle for Expose, and find it makes me work so much quicker. The scroll button allows for four way scrolling, up/down, left/right, and is quite responsive, but sadly gets gunked up rather easily and does stop working rather quickly.

The cable is perhaps a little short, this can be corrected with an extension cable or a wireless version of the mouse, though this is a minor problem coming from the company that invented the mouse it's a worthy follow up, if a bit breakable.

Summary: Not bad, but got a few things to fix.

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