Comments on: Getting touchy with Apple’s Magic Mouse

By: Andreas Louca

Andreas Louca — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:28:42 +0000

For precision I didn’t see any difference with the bluetooth mighty mouse or from my Logitech (actually the logitech has higher DPI, so I guess is more precise? I don’t play games on the Mac anyway).

I haven’t looked around yet for 3rd party applications, but I do not see a reason why not.

Also something I noticed: 75% of the mouse’s surface is touch. It stops just above the Apple logo on the mouse. Nifty!

By: Marios Tziortzis

Marios Tziortzis — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:34:44 +0000

Congrats guys with your new toys

I’m still thinking about buying one. So are there any confirmed ‘hacks’/'mods’ available to enable middle click ? There are some applications floating around that say that they can enable middle click. Did any of you guys managed to get it to work ?

I can live without the side buttons of my mighty mouse but I don’t think I can live without the middle click!

By: Mario A. Spinthiras

Mario A. Spinthiras — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:41:45 +0000

I got my magic mouse last week. I actually walked into a shopping centre in London thinking I would buy a 5 pound mouse =) Silly me to stumble across an apple store.

I walked in, saw it, felt it and bought it. Student discount will get you a nice 10 pound shave off the price.

I haven’t looked into the technical details of the touch interface however if it does support more than the simple scrolling and swiping, then at some point more is obvious to come for this. It looks as though it was a rather hasty move from Apple, thus it is apparent that more should be pushed through (this is usually correlated with sales milestones).

The precision is also something to talk about. Laser really does help in this case. Everything else is up to your mouse settings really.

Overall I am also happy since a small and sleek mouse can accommodate my large hands. It works nicely in Linux (no scrolling if I remember correctly) and it looks damn nice next to my new mac book pro.

My 2p.

Mario.

By: Andreas Louca

Andreas Louca — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:00:35 +0000

I don’t really mind the thinness, I actually welcome it. I guess that’s personal taste.

I don’t think that opening the API would be so extreme. I don’t mean opening the hardware API allowing to mouse to work on other Operating Systems, but allow a gesture recognition API to be used from the apps. Also consider that they have a bunch of notebooks now that do support multitouch in a very large touchpad (when comparing with the rest of the industry), so I believe that a logical step to take. The gesture API for both the mouse and the touchpads should be the same, so no complexities or small user base to ignore it. Maybe not in Snow Leopard, but I think we’ll see it in the next big cat iteration.

By: George Iordanou

George Iordanou — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:05:57 +0000

I got the Magic Mouse yesterday… i find it a bit too small (thin) and it doesn’t fit in my hand as a logitech mouse would do. Also, it’s a few buttons short:)

BUT, the scrolling is wonderful.

Regarding opening the mouse’s API… come on… it’s Apple we are talking about