Apple Redefines The Mouse

Tuesday, Aug. 2 2005 | Author: jeremy

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.

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10 Responses for "Apple Redefines The Mouse"

Justin Koh

August 2nd, 2005 at 11:23 am
1

Force-sensing. Heh.

This is really good, though, and it’ll shut the nitpicky geeks up for a while.
cliche

August 2nd, 2005 at 11:33 am
2

Form is nice, especially when it supplements function. The form of this mouse simply gets in the way of function.
john

August 2nd, 2005 at 12:28 pm
3

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….
cdharrison

August 2nd, 2005 at 2:24 pm
4

Is it PC compatible? I haven’t seen any info to back that up…
Doug Clifton

August 2nd, 2005 at 3:21 pm
5

Oh my lord, I just realized I have more than one finger! lol
Griffith

August 2nd, 2005 at 7:29 pm
6

Mighty Mouse?
Michael

August 2nd, 2005 at 10:15 pm
7

It’s about time that Apple realizes that a Right-click is a good idea. Do you think you can scroll diagonally?
Michael

August 2nd, 2005 at 10:34 pm
8

You can watch this guy test out the new apple mouse and yes, it can scroll diagonally.
Michael

August 2nd, 2005 at 10:34 pm
9

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
Griffith

August 5th, 2005 at 7:05 am
10

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.