The new mouse a good buy?

The new mouse is awesome! My local Best Buy had them, and so did my local Apple Store. I love how it looks.

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The mouse looked cool, until I saw this thread.

I guess when I buy an iMac, I'll buy a wireless three-button mouse (since I'll be doing 3D work and video editing), and NOT the Magic Mouse. It sounds like a pain.

It's not at all a waste of money. Is fuel for your car a waste of money?

It would be for me because I'm not a car owner!

My point is, if you need it and it has the functions you are looking for then no, it's not at all a waste of money. If you go out simpy to buy it becuase its new, then get home and find out its not what you need or were looking for then I guess that would be a waste of money.

As for bluetooth, I have some issues from time to time you need to realize that problems may always pop up but generally bluetooth is a great form of connectivity.

bennjiboi said:

It's not at all a waste of money. Is fuel for your car a waste of money?

It would be for me because I'm not a car owner!

My point is, if you need it and it has the functions you are looking for then no, it's not at all a waste of money. If you go out simpy to buy it becuase its new, then get home and find out its not what you need or were looking for then I guess that would be a waste of money.

As for bluetooth, I have some issues from time to time you need to realize that problems may always pop up but generally bluetooth is a great form of connectivity.

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Yeah, I'm sticking with my previous post. For 70 dollars, it has to at least have a docking station to charge the batteries and button for expose. I don't expect it to record actions or have on the fly dpi changing like this one does.

I think a docking station would have been a really nice touch, rechargeable batterys would have been a huge seller for me.

I'm happy with it for now, it does have a really really nice feel to it.

I am just having to get used to using F6 for expose.. its, a little annoying but I'm learning..

It's still FAR better then using windows hehe

I am at the Apple store right now trying out the new iMac and the new mouse. Love the look of the iMac. Super fast too.

THe mouse isn't visually appealing to me, personally. Not only that but it is a bit heavy. I think a trackpad in the shape of a mouse would have been an even cooler idea. For instance, it'd be nice if you could do the 2-finger resize pinch action with this mouse. Or scrolling with finger touch. But it has limited touch functions. Not that I expected a full trackpad in this mouse, but it'd be great if it was that way. It wouldn't matter how heavy it was if you could scroll with fingers instead of having to move the darn thing. Whatever.
Maybe with the next one....

What I meant by "scrolling" is moving the cursor anywhere on the monitor. Not just moving up or down within a window.

I think now that Apple have the technology they can improve it.. Cats out of the bag now so I'm sure there will be improvments to come

bennjiboi said:

It's not at all a waste of money. Is fuel for your car a waste of money?

It would be for me because I'm not a car owner!

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Thats a bit of a nudder of a question !!!! And cant see the similarity to "is the mouse a waste of money".

I own a car and even though it is essential for my vehicle to operate, IMO fuel is a waste of money. Especially the prices theses days. ......

As for the question ...... Im still deciding on it being a waste of money. $99AUD is the price here down under and yesterday had the chance to quickly
check it out. I found it looks amazing and sleek. But I found using it a tad uncomfortable.
a) Because of its small stature, height wise i am meaning, with my big hands found it difficult to hold onto and use the 2 finger swipe or the one finger swipe. As with the current mouse im using it has BODY and a joy to grip .....
b) The fluid motion of it is great, until after about 10 minutes of continuos use i found my hand getting a little bit sweaty. And this is where i found it even more difficult to use, because every time i swiped left or right the mouse wanted to grab and moved with my fingers.

So the jury is still out for me.

Apart from that i like the functionality of it and the bluetooth connection seemed flawless at this point in time.

Cheers

$70 for a mouse is a total ripoff.

I don't feel ripped off at all, it's new technology. It's fun I think it's worth it.

i got it, and it's a pretty good mouse. The weight is nice. They accounted for the weight of the batteries. I imagine if you'd like it lighter, than you could put in some lithium batteries in, and it'd reduce the weight significantly.

It works almost the same on VMware except the swipe for back and forward. I'd really love it if it had a 3rd button option to use for panning on programs such as CAD and 3d rendering software that i use on the windows side.

I'm wondering right now since it's a multi touch, if it could get better in time, with updates. The pinch would be wonderful. And a 3 finger swipe to activate expose' or show desktop.

The mouse would be 5/5 if it had a "button 3" like the mighty mouse did.

right now. It's just like a super model. She's good to look at, but worthless in the kitchen. So, 4/5 stars from me.

I would love it to minic a trackpad in the way of taping to select things, double clicking etc..

This way the 'right click' could be used as expose..

I think I'll be going back to my mighty mouse because I miss expose..

It looks good to me and i've read reviews on the apple website and they are mostly positive. I really want to get this mouse because I have a mighty mouse that is constantly having trackball problems. Plus I hate going third party because it just does not feel right I want something that was meant for my computer.

Plus I betcha that apple will add more updates with updates to that wireless mouse software

bennjiboi said:

I would love it to minic a trackpad in the way of taping to select things, double clicking etc..

This way the 'right click' could be used as expose..

I think I'll be going back to my mighty mouse because I miss expose..

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What about setting up expose as a hot corner. I have a third party mouse ATM and use my hotcorner for expose. Unless you have them set as something else already.....

Cheers

tattooedmac said:

What about setting up expose as a hot corner. I have a third party mouse ATM and use my hotcorner for expose. Unless you have them set as something else already.....

Cheers

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that's what i do. Even when i had the mighty mouse. It was too hard to squeeze so i just used a hot corner.

tattooedmac said:

What about setting up expose as a hot corner. I have a third party mouse ATM and use my hotcorner for expose. Unless you have them set as something else already.....

Cheers

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Thats a great idea - I dont know why I didnt think of it!

I'll be heading straight home to change my expose settings!!

FedEx just dropped off my magic mouse. Like some others have said in different threads, there seem to be a slight lag when scrolling up/down - but I assume I'll get used to it.

All in all, seems fine for now. I don't believe it's a "must" but I wanted a mouse to use with my Air.