Apple’s Magic Mouse
Anyone got one of these yet? If so what do you think?
Here is a review from TMO, if you are using one do you agree or disagree with this review?
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I have enjoyed a MIghty Mouse for about two years. I had to learn about it’s idiosyncrasies but I learned to enjoy it. This Bluetooth Mighty Mouse was quite productive as long as I had it tracking on some suitable surface that it liked, and that was the problem with it. Lots of surfaces I found myself using it on, it just wouldn’t track correctly without the cursor jumping around. I carried a thick piece of coated paper to use as a mouse pad so I could keep it tracking. That is until about a month ago, when the little ball to scroll with stopped working. I cleaned the ball the best I could, but it remained troublesome.
I finally had a eureka moment (Apple is selling a new Bluetooth mouse) and decided to try this new Magic Mouse.
Here is what I like about it. It has a real click (you press down to make that click with real mechanical feedback. It works great with the Right Click – something that the Mighty Mouse got confused with at times when you had both fingers on it. The scrolling works like you expect it to. Simple, tracks very well on all the surfaces I have tried, right clicks correctly and scrolls.
One thing that I lost was clicking on the scroll ball and bringing up the Dashboard – I have to use F12 for that now.
Using a wireless mouse for me increases my productivity over the trackpad. I have only had my mouse about a week, but I would recommend the upgrade from the Mighty Mouse to the Magic Mouse.
Another good blog entry about the new Mighty Mouse.
http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_magicmouse
Is there any way to make a Windows laptop operate with a Mac wireless mouse? I got a Logitec one but the range is only a few ft. I want to be able to mouse from 6 or 8 ft when I have the PC plugged into my HDTV.
I would say it comes down to drivers. If your Logitech mouse supports both Mac and Windows then you may have to install some drivers on your Windows installation. If your Logitech mouse is Mac only then it will probably not work. You could plug it in and try.
With that said I recently read some info on how people are getting the Magic Mouse to work with Windows, you can read it here…
http://thegadgets.net/apple/how-to-use-apples-magic-mouse-with-windows-7-on-a-pc/
The Magic Mouse was designed to be a Mac mouse only, Apple then updated the Bluetooth drives for Windows and Bootcamp to allow the mouse to work. Then people extracted (hacked) those drivers from this update and made them available to be installed on non-bootcamp Windows installs.
Windows 7 has built-in support for multi-gester devices.