# Got the new Mighty Mouse
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950
**Category:** News & General Discussion
**Created:** [August 20, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950 "2006-08-20T00:19:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@nickavv](https://discussions.unity.com/u/nickavv)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/1 "2006-08-20T00:19:18Z")
And man is it awesome. I can like… Right click. And Scroll Wheel n’ stuff. Man, It rocks. n\_n
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### Author:  [@bigkahuna](https://discussions.unity.com/u/bigkahuna)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/2 "2006-08-20T00:53:54Z")
Wish I had known you were looking for one, you could’a bought mine! 😉 If it had a -real- left / right mouse button, I would keep it. But it messes up my right clicks about 50% of the time…
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### Author:  [@nickavv](https://discussions.unity.com/u/nickavv)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/3 "2006-08-20T03:33:04Z")
I just keep my fingers away from the middleish area of the mouse and it seems to work fine.
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### Author:  [@Aras](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Aras)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/4 "2006-08-20T07:34:34Z")
There’s something deeply wrong about mice when people say “oh my! the right click and the scroll actuall works!”. Hey, haven’t both been a solved issue for some ten years by now (in all other mice except Apple’s that is)? :roll:
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### Author:  [@anadin](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anadin)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 9:32am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/5 "2006-08-20T09:32:13Z")
Yeah it’s mad isn’t it, I have been using M$ mouse with my mac since I ‘switched’ back when OS X 10.0 came out :?
Saying that, I really want a mighty mouse, bought one for my father in law and I love it!
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### Author:  [@Joachim\_Ante\_1](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Joachim_Ante_1)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 11:04am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/6 "2006-08-20T11:04:49Z")
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> I have been using M$ mouse
Me too. Microsoft is really good at making mice. If they would just drop all the other products and focus on their mice, the world would be a better place 🙂
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### Author:  [@marty](https://discussions.unity.com/u/marty)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/7 "2006-08-20T13:53:00Z")
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> Microsoft is really good at making mice.
Obviously, you’re a right-hander. 😉
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### Author:  [@forestjohnson](https://discussions.unity.com/u/forestjohnson)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/8 "2006-08-20T14:11:30Z")
I have a Kensington mouse that looks like it could win some car races if it tried. I like it quite a bit and tit has lasted a long time.
[http://images.acco.com/KENSINGTON/K72127/K72127-4618.jpg](http://images.acco.com/KENSINGTON/K72127/K72127-4618.jpg)
I tried a Mighty Mouse once and it was nice but kind of wierd at first. I really like the scrolly ball even though it is so tiny. I love that I can scroll sideways.
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### Author:  [@taumel](https://discussions.unity.com/u/taumel)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/9 "2006-08-20T14:32:17Z")
@Joachim
Nice to see that also the otee crew has somekind of humour… ;O)
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### Author:  [@Morgan](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Morgan)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/10 "2006-08-20T17:32:52Z")
The right-click on the Mighty Mouse either works well or doesn’t depending on your habits of holding your hand. For me it’s not so good.
But I like Apple’s shape/comfort better than anything else out there (I want a mouse not an armrest!) and so I often toss aside my 5-button MS mouse and use my old Apple one-button from my eMac. When I get my next Mac, I probably WILL use the Mighty Mouse–sometimes.
And the Bluetooth one would make a great travel mouse for my PowerBook, small and rounded.
I wish they’d let you buy your Mac with a wired keyboard and a wireless mouse. Seems you can’t mix-n-match though.
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### Author:  [@anon\_5919502](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_5919502)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/11 "2006-08-21T08:14:44Z")
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> I wish they’d let you buy your Mac with a wired keyboard and a wireless mouse. Seems you can’t mix-n-match though.
They did let you specifiy a wireless upgrade kit instead of the wired mouse keyboard, but I think that option went when the mighty mouse was released - maybe they will reintroduce that.
With the right mouse button I find it triggering sometimes when I perform a left-click - again, I suppose it depends how you hold a mouse, but without a positive action you don’t know how hard you can grip the mouse before it registers.
Paul
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### Author:  [@anon\_40509234](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_40509234)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/12 "2006-08-21T17:15:33Z")
I’ve used the mighty mouse quite a bit and have only one complaint; You cannot press both the left and right mouse buttons simultaneously (for programming/gaming purposes). I really don’t understand why people have such a deep, passionate hate for it.
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### Author:  [@anon\_65423862](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_65423862)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/13 "2006-08-21T22:14:50Z")
Mindless\_Soul is right, the Mighty Mouse is really a one button mouse since the OS only registers one type of click at a time.
My biggest concern has been that the wheel gets dirty and then ceases to function. If you’re not willing to perform surgery on the mouse, then there’s no way to clean it, and so my mouse no longer scrolls along the y-axis; certainly one of the more useful parts of any mouse. I’ve tried all the cleaning methods listed online, and they worked for me previously, but it was a matter of days before it was broken again.
Those two aspects make the Mighty Mouse poor industrial design.
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### Author:  [@antenna-tree](https://discussions.unity.com/u/antenna-tree)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/14 "2006-08-21T23:49:41Z")
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> I really don’t understand why people have such a deep, passionate hate for it.
I think it’s because Apple prides itself so much on their great user experience that some people get pissed off that they’d be so stubborn as to make a psuedo two button mouse. And they have a history of horrible mice…
The iMac “puck” mouse which sucked because it’s circular shape would slightly rotate in your hand causing unexpected movement.
The horrible “mouse top as button” for the G4s… you couldn’t take it off of the surface without accidentily releasing the button which made it super annoying for detailed work.
Why can’t they just make a slick “brushed metal” type of two button mouse with a regular scroll wheel? I know Apple always has to “innovate”, but for some reason they always get the mouse dead wrong.
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### Author:  [@Marble](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Marble)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/15 "2006-08-21T23:58:21Z")
I think their Pro Mouse is excellent. I have since graduated to a more traditional and fuller-featured Kensington, but I like the feel and seamlessness of the Pro Mouse.
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### Author:  [@anon\_65423862](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_65423862)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/16 "2006-08-22T00:38:11Z")
If you want to talk about where Apple should go with disign and innovation, they should get rid of the mouse altogether and make OS X support multiple input touchscreens. That would be real innovation for the desktop computer, and if people wanted to use a mouse (still one of the best inputs for controlling games), that should be supported too (not to mention supporting people who can’t afford the expensive multi-touch-sensitive monitors).
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### Author:  [@Joachim\_Ante\_1](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Joachim_Ante_1)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/17 "2006-08-22T00:41:32Z")
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> If you want to talk about where Apple should go with disign and innovation, they should get rid of the mouse altogether and make OS X support multiple input touchscreens.
Did you ever try holding up your hand for 8 hours straight?
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### Author:  [@antenna-tree](https://discussions.unity.com/u/antenna-tree)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/18 "2006-08-22T02:53:00Z")
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> > If you want to talk about where Apple should go with disign and innovation, they should get rid of the mouse altogether and make OS X support multiple input touchscreens.
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> Did you ever try holding up your hand for 8 hours straight?
Eye pupil tracking is the way to go, no strain there 😉
Or of course you can wait for the “mighty brain”… a neural input mouse in development from Apple. Just “concentrate” on where you want the mouse to go and presto! It’s magic! Unfortunately, to do a right mouse click you have to meditate on the Zen paradox of the sound of one hand clapping.
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### Author:  [@Morgan](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Morgan)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/19 "2006-08-22T03:07:25Z")
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> I really don’t understand why people have such a deep, passionate hate for it.
I think that Apple’s perfectionism and attention to detail causes even small mistakes to really stand out and bother people. Examples:
- Right-mouse functionality that could work for everyone–but instead, works for “many” people.
- Great UI design… peppered with grating inconsistencies like two kinds of metal, and three kinds of toolbar that do the same thing.
- Amazingly cool, sleek, shiny hardware… making you notice each crack or scratch all the more.
- Slim, minimalist laptops with perfect fit and finish… except for just a bit of warp on the aluminum lid, which may be true of almost any laptop, but you never notice on a less “perfect” design.
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> Eye pupil tracking is the way to go, no strain there 😉
We’ve all used computers that crash if you so much as look at them funny. Now you’ve made it literal.
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### Author:  [@antenna-tree](https://discussions.unity.com/u/antenna-tree)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/got-the-new-mighty-mouse/374950/20 "2006-08-22T03:35:10Z")
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> We’ve all used computers that crash if you so much as look at them funny. Now you’ve made it literal.
Hey, don’t make fun of cross-eyed people, that’s not very nice. I’m sure Apple will make a “Universal Access” feature that horizontally flips the Desktop for them 😉
Anyway, I have two Apple laptops, both refurbs. One of them the lid closes askew, the other has a weird bump on the front. It has zero influence on performance, but still annoys me a little. Most people say Apple is a hardware company, but I love the OS more than anything else they do. I 've had my main laptop for 2 1/2 years and have had zero problems so far. My Windows 2000 computer on the other hand is a mess of an OS held together by prayers and swears at this point.
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