Mighty Mouse Impressions

Looks elegant. Very minimalist. Bound to win a design prize or two. But
practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
curved.

I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
productivity.

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In article <copespaz->,
MC <> wrote:

> Looks elegant. Very minimalist. Bound to win a design prize or two. But
> practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
> surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
> curved.
>
> I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
> from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
> productivity.

You presumably mean Magic Mouse. Mighty Mouse is the old mouse that
it's replacing.

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Jolly Roger <> wrote:

> In article <copespaz->,
> MC <> wrote:
>
> > To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> > your hand off it completely
>
> I think you mean the Magic Mouse, right?

I get those name confused as well. I had to check or I might have
written it incorrectly in the comments I just posted (see my posting
about impressions of my new 27" iMac).

Let me just say here that I did not find the above comment to be true at
least for me. I can scroll quite fine without taking my hand off the
Magic Mouse; in fact I found the vertical scrolling to be probably its
best feature. Very natural for me and no, I didn't have to take my hand
off or otherwise contort for it. The "momentum" thing in the scrolling
is nice also.

I'm using one right now as I'm posting this.

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MC wrote:

> Looks elegant. Very minimalist. Bound to win a design prize or two. But
> practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
> surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
> curved.
>
> I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
> from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
> productivity.

I will not judge the mouse until I have tried it. But the MS
Intellimouse sets a very high standard in pointing devices in both
ergonomics and versatility.

Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?

Davoud

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In article <jollyroger->,
Jolly Roger <> wrote:

> In article <copespaz->,
> MC <> wrote:
>
> > Looks elegant. Very minimalist. Bound to win a design prize or two. But
> > practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> > your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
> > surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
> > curved.
> >
> > I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
> > from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
> > productivity.
>
> I think you mean the Magic Mouse, right?

Yes. Brainfart. Sorry.

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In article <281020091820389346%>, Davoud <> wrote:

> I will not judge the mouse until I have tried it. But the MS
> Intellimouse sets a very high standard in pointing devices in both
> ergonomics and versatility.

I've gone through too many Intellimouses (both the wired and wireless
kinds) to ever want to use one again. After a while they lose their
precision. I loved their ergonomics and their driver software, but hated
the fact that after a period, they lost that precision.

> Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?

Yup; just press the button twice, just as with any other mouse.

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In article <michelle->,
Michelle Steiner <> wrote:

> In article <281020091820389346%>, Davoud <> wrote:
>
> > Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?
>
> Yup; just press the button twice, just as with any other mouse.

When I still used Windows I always defined the middle button (of a 3
button mouse - I'd buy one if necessary) as double click.

It made playing Solitaire and Freecell much easier ;-)

On a serious note, I feared I wasn't doing my hand much good with all
the double clicking Windows required. Having read about RSI etc, it was
a sensible move.

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In article <paul.nospam->,
"P. Sture" <> wrote:

> > > Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?
> >
> > Yup; just press the button twice, just as with any other mouse.
>
> When I still used Windows I always defined the middle button (of a 3
> button mouse - I'd buy one if necessary) as double click.

You can do that with the Mighty Mouse, but I think you need third-party
software to do it.

BTW, I discovered today that a two-fingered swipe with Magic Mouse while in
mail.app's message viewer window will select the next (right swipe) or
previous (left swipe) message. If none are selected, a right swipe selects
the first message and a left swipe selects the last message.

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Davoud:
> > > Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?

Michelle Steiner:
> > Yup; just press the button twice, just as with any other mouse.

Sheesh! Ya gotta spell everything out letter by letter. C-a-n o-n-e
i-s-s-u-e a d-o-u-b-l-e-c-l-i-c-k w-i-t-h t-h-e M-a-g-i-c M-o-u-s-e b-y
p-r-e-s-s-i-n-g a b-u-t-t-o-n o-n-c-e?

And that's not the way just "any other mouse" works. They have buttons
that can be programmed to do a double-click. Have you perhaps found a
way to use your Mac Plus mouse with your current Mac?

P. Sture
> When I still used Windows I always defined the middle button (of a 3
> button mouse - I'd buy one if necessary) as double click.

Exactly what I do with my Microsoft mice on the Macs; I define the
scroll button as the double-click button.

In any case, I'm just back from trying the "Magic" Mouse for about a
half hour at the Annapolis Apple Store. "Tragic" Mouse would better
describe it from my POV--another piece of worthless junk from the Apple
Mouseketeers. For my money Apple should leave the business of mouse
designing to MS and others. Anyone need a "Mighty Mouse?" I've got a
drawer full of 'em, still in the factory wrappers except for the one
that I tried for an hour or two.

> It made playing Solitaire and Freecell much easier ;-)
>
> On a serious note, I feared I wasn't doing my hand much good with all
> the double clicking Windows required. Having read about RSI etc, it was
> a sensible move.

Windows offers the option of opening documents and apps with a single
click. I wonder if there a Mac utility that will enable that?

Davoud

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In article <061120091416145330%>, Davoud <>
wrote:

> Davoud:
> > > > Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?
>
> Michelle Steiner:
> > > Yup; just press the button twice, just as with any other mouse.
>
> Sheesh! Ya gotta spell everything out letter by letter. C-a-n o-n-e
> i-s-s-u-e a d-o-u-b-l-e-c-l-i-c-k w-i-t-h t-h-e M-a-g-i-c M-o-u-s-e b-y
> p-r-e-s-s-i-n-g a b-u-t-t-o-n o-n-c-e?
>
> And that's not the way just "any other mouse" works. They have buttons
> that can be programmed to do a double-click. Have you perhaps found a
> way to use your Mac Plus mouse with your current Mac?
>
> P. Sture
> > When I still used Windows I always defined the middle button (of a 3
> > button mouse - I'd buy one if necessary) as double click.
>
> Exactly what I do with my Microsoft mice on the Macs; I define the
> scroll button as the double-click button.
>
> In any case, I'm just back from trying the "Magic" Mouse for about a
> half hour at the Annapolis Apple Store. "Tragic" Mouse would better
> describe it from my POV--another piece of worthless junk from the Apple
> Mouseketeers. For my money Apple should leave the business of mouse
> designing to MS and others. Anyone need a "Mighty Mouse?" I've got a
> drawer full of 'em, still in the factory wrappers except for the one
> that I tried for an hour or two.
>
> > It made playing Solitaire and Freecell much easier ;-)
> >
> > On a serious note, I feared I wasn't doing my hand much good with all
> > the double clicking Windows required. Having read about RSI etc, it was
> > a sensible move.
>
> Windows offers the option of opening documents and apps with a single
> click. I wonder if there a Mac utility that will enable that?
>

I don't recall Windows offering that option that back in NT 4 days
(which I was still using at work until the end of 2003).

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