[Kamikaze]

You thought one button was bad? Now they're doing zero button mice!

http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/

[StratComm]

Too bad all that boils down to is the standard two-button wheel mouse that PCs have been shipping with for what, 8 years now?

Don't get me wrong, it looks like a decent mouse, but am I the only one who sees apple release "new" products that are actually half a decade or more behind the times, only to see them treated as the best thing since sliced bread?

[Admiral LSD]

heh, it's actually a three "button" mouse with a 4 way scroll feature (hopefully more useful than MSs implementation)

edit: reading it again, it appears that it's actually an 8 way scroll feature.

[Carl]

Originally posted by Apple
Mighty Mouse

Carl smells a lawsuit.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]It's got one of those thinkpad-esque pointers, far better than lappy touchpads IMHO.

edit: on closer inspection it's a mini roller ball.
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[IceFire]

Hell has frozen over...

[aldo_14]

Woo!  An overdesigned, bog standard featured device that only costs twice that of a perfectly adequate and functional equivalent - stylish!

[Knight Templar]

Ewww.

[BlueFlames]

Multidirectional wheels, eh?  Umm...  Apple....  Yeah, I hate to remind you of that nasty little bit in the '80s, but Microsoft beat you to it.......again.......  Oh....  Yeah....  So did Logitech....

What next?  Eight-bit gaming consoles?  Oooo...  Maybe they could let people upgrade their desktop video cards (among other things), and stop treating their users like stupid monkeys.  Nah...  They didn't want to be competitive in the twenty-first century.

[Admiral LSD]

Umm.... As far as I know it's been possible to upgrade the desktop video card in most Macs for years....

[FireCrack]

HORRAY FOR COUNTER INTUITIVENESS!!!

[Kosh]

No button mice = bad for gaming.

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Kosh
No button mice = bad for gaming.

It's a Mac mouse, Macs are even more hopeless for gaming than Linux is.

edit: Also, how is it counter-intuitive? Press the area to the left of the scroll ball to left-click, the area to the right to right-click, the scroll ball to scroll and finally, squeeze it to bring up the dashboard. It's no more counter-intuitive than any other mouse.

[FireCrack]

Nevermind, i thuaght you rotaed the mosue to scroll.

Still.. it's a mac mosue.

[Rictor]

Novelty masquarading as quality.

[Admiral LSD]

Apple are by no means the only organisation doing that though...

[CP5670]

So how many buttons does it have? Apple's description seems to contradict itself on this. I would have expected it to be wireless though. That's just the kind of thing I could imagine Apple including on their mice and doubling the price for it.

It's a Mac mouse, Macs are even more hopeless for gaming than Linux is.

Apple these days is just sad. Almost everything they release is ridiculously overpriced and screams of form without function. The funny thing is that my old 33mhz 4MB Mac from 1990 actually has a lot of great games on it and was better than most DOS machines back then. How times have changed...

It's got one of those thinkpad-esque pointers, far better than lappy touchpads IMHO.

Why do they even include touchpads on laptops? Those things are completely unusable. It takes forever to perform even the simplest tasks with them. My laptop has both a touchpad and a pointing stick and I've just disabled the touchpad driver for good.

[MicroPsycho]

next product, the iMouse shuffle!

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by CP5670
So how many buttons does it have? Apple's description seems to contradict itself on this. I would have expected it to be wireless though. That's just the kind of thing I could imagine Apple including on their mice and doubling the price for it.

It's got three click "buttons" (the scrollball is a button) and two squeeze buttons on the side.

[ZylonBane]

Wow. So that's what it looks like when Apple's industrial designers throw their hands in the air and say, "Screw it". The damn thing looks like a giant Tylenol.