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Apple Wired Mouse

March 19th, 2010 by admin

Wired optical mouse with innovative scroll ball
Touch-sensitive technology offers detects left and right clicks
Scroll ball lets you scroll in all directions
Force-sensing side buttons
Customize button functions with Mac OS X

Product Description
It's the wired mouse that reinvents the wheel - the scroll wheel. The Apple Mouse features the amazing scroll ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, literally without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you can choose either the versatility of a four-button mouse or the simplicity of a single-button beauty.Amazon.com Product Description
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Apple Wired Mouse

5 Responses

Major Bludd writes:
March 19th, 20107:41 pmat

Apple has lots of great, superior ideas. This is not one of them. I got this mouse when I bought my IMac around 2 years ago. As mentioned ad nauseam on a million “Help Me” forums, the scroll ball gets funky and stops working about every 3 days or so, with moderate use (3 hours a day). It doesn’t matter if you wash your hands before you use it, as I do. I have non-oily, non-sweaty hands, so someone with these problems will have it worse.

The tracking is terrible. The pointer has a tendency to randomly drift and jump clear across the screen, even when used with a standard mousepad and correct sensitivity settings. The side buttons, while a nice idea, get so hair trigger sensitive after the mouse is broken in that they have to be manually disabled.

Aesthetically, I cannot understand why Mac continues to produce items that are constantly being touched, like iMac keyboards and mice, in easily soiled, glossy white plastic. They require constant cleaning or will look and feel absolutely filthy. Get with it, retards. Just make high contact hardware in black, like everybody else. And while you’re at it, fire whatever moron engineering group let this atrocity past beta testing into the market.
Rating: 2 / 5
WPMo writes:
March 19th, 20108:43 pmat

Both times the Up scroll function has failed, despite regular cleaning of the scroll ball. When the mouse works, it’s great. But as many will testify, it doesn’t last. Am using a Logitech until I buy a new cordless “Magic Mouse” and scroll with my fingers instead of a questionably engineered rubber pea.
Rating: 2 / 5
Paul H. Zimmerman writes:
March 19th, 20109:38 pmat

This, ism my first MAC and I love everything about it, including the wired Magic Mouse !~!
Rating: 5 / 5
Daniel R. Padilla writes:
March 19th, 201010:50 pmat

This mouse trackball is very easily gunked up and is VERY difficult to clean. The mouse does NOT open, so you have to rub the trackball with a moist rag for what seems like an eternity to clean it. Apple recommends plain water, but only alcohol or 409 can do a good job. This process is required about every week, or more often if you have kids.
Like a lot of Apple products it is pretty but lacks some of the most obvious functional requirements, like ease of cleaning.
It is an unnecessarily high-maintenance item. Other manufactures have scroll wheels that have sensors on the side of the wheel, not on the tread where all the body oils, dirt and dust accumulate. So the technology has improved considerably over the years. Why would Apple revert to such a problematic feature? If you remember mice from the 80′s you can recall the bottom trackball that would fill with dirt and make the mouse act erratically. At least back then you could open the mouse, remove the ball for cleaning, and also clean the rollers inside the mouse.

If you can live without the side buttons, just get a Logitech LS1 mouse for $10. That is what I did to replace this expensive mouse.
Rating: 1 / 5
Dave writes:
March 20th, 201012:35 amat

I’m not normally moved to write a review about something as common as a wired mouse, but this one is so well made and so easy to use I couldn’t hold back:

I normally use a wireless mouse but for CAD work they can bee a little unreliable. I decided to try an old fashion wired mouse and it was an improvement in terms of no “drop-offs” like I had with the wireless. However it was the fit and function of the mouse that really won me over. The design is simple but really comfortable. The scroll ball looked small to me but it turned out to be very easy to use with little finger stress. I love that the right and left sides are touch sensitive and give me a right and left click. The side buttons were similarly easy to use and positioned perfectly.

All in all just a simple wired mouse, but a perfectly designed one. It’s nice that Apple still takes the time to do the little things well.

Rating: 5 / 5