After almost 20 years, Apple has finally added more buttons to its mouse. Actually, they aren’t buttons. They are more like touchpads. Instead of a scroll wheel, it has a scroll ball that allows you to scroll horizontall and vertically. It has a left and right click area, as well as force sensing buttons on the sides.
The mouse is completely programmable under OS X Tiger and even plays nice with the PC.
Force-sensing. Heh.
This is really good, though, and it’ll shut the nitpicky geeks up for a while.
Form is nice, especially when it supplements function. The form of this mouse simply gets in the way of function.
Isnt the whole top surface programable, so you could even have finger gestures or a whole number of buttons in theory?
I quite like this actually, wonder how it is to actually use though….
Is it PC compatible? I haven’t seen any info to back that up…
Oh my lord, I just realized I have more than one finger! lol
Mighty Mouse?
It’s about time that Apple realizes that a Right-click is a good idea. Do you think you can scroll diagonally?
You can watch this guy test out the new apple mouse and yes, it can scroll diagonally.
You can watch this guy test out the new apple mouse and yes, it can scroll diagonally.
http://ia300118.us.archive.org/0/items/KevinApplesMightyMouseReview/mightymouse_small.mov
If things were made/designed properly, we would never need to scroll horizontally, and much less, diagonally. The best use I see for the “ball” is to view large sized images in detail, it is probably great for Photoshop, but in normal image viewing programs I preffer to click on the image and drag to what I want to see, it offers much more control than any scroll wheel/ball.