![]() As a grumpy consumer though, I am bothered that I needed to hunt down and install a 3rd part application in order to make a $70 mouse work.Īll my complaints aside, with MagicPrefs installed, the Magic Mouse is pretty slick. Second, who uses more than one mouse with their laptop anyway? For the average person, given the availability of a tool like MagicPrefs, the tracking speed may be a non-issue. First, the global setting does not affect the track pad on my Macbook Pro. I feel that I should note two important caveats to my complaints about the Magic Mouse tracking speed problem. When you set the tracking speed high enough to make the Magic Mouse usable, other mice become useless. MagicPrefs made the mouse much more usable, but the same issue existed as with MouseZoom. Perhaps there is some usability issue similar to my resting finger problem that I’m unaware of. Why Apple doesn’t include these features out of the box is beyond me. MagicPrefs let me lower the sensitivity which was cool, but then the other features were harder to initiate as well. MagicPrefs also allows you to create a third button or middle button on the MagicMouse. I like to rest my first and second fingers on the mouse while using it, and that caused the pinch-zoom to kick in constantly driving me nuts. Sadly after about two hours with this enabled I had to turn it off. I mean anyone with an iPhone or iTouch is used to pinching, and this mouse is just made for it. Honestly I think that should be included with the default Apple preferences. MagicPrefs lets you add things like pinch-zooming. This is a much more robust addition to preferences and adds a great deal of functionality. When I went back to use my other mouse, it was unusable with the settings required to make the Magic Mouse tolerable. It helped, but I noticed that it affected all pointing devices. This is a simple little addition to preferences that does nothing but allow for super-fast mouse tracking (or acceleration – I’m still not clear on which). ![]() ![]() I took the advice from this thread and tried a couple of solutions. Turns out lots of people have complained about this very issue. I did what any self-respecting nerd would do, and hit the Internet looking for people who have solved this problem before me. I finally slid the tracking control all the way to the right and it still wasn’t good enough. A quick trip to preferences and I moved the slider to the right. I had the mouse for less than a minute and knew I’d need to tweak the speed settings. The second, and far more frustrating problem for me was the Magic Mouse’s acceleration and/or tracking speed. Unfortunately, the problems go deeper than ergonomics. Still, the Magic Mouse is so damn sexy that any Mac Nerd would gladly forgo a bit of ergonomics to have the sexy mouse on their desk. While the Apple Magic Mouse looks sexy as all get-out, in my opinion it suffers from a bad case of form over function. Well, sexy is optional, but in the nerd circles in which I move, sexy hardware is a status symbol. I wanted a portable mouse for my Macbook Pro – something small, light and sexy. I use a Logitech MX 1100 at home which fits my hand perfectly. I know this is a very personal thing, but I prefer a larger mouse that fills my hand. The problems with this mouse for me are two-fold.įirst, the mouse is so low to the ground that my hand does not feel comfortable resting on it. I didn’t notice that at all with the Magic Mouse. If they sit unused for a while they go to sleep to save battery life, then they stagger a bit upon awakening. Many USB mice I’ve used have a bit of a wake-up problem. ![]() With built-in bluetooth, there are no goofy USB transceivers to plug in and lose or forget. The Magic Mouse is a Bluetooth mouse which is great if you have a Bluetooth enabled laptop. Some people complain that there is no third or middle-click button, but that’s a non-issue for me, and as you’ll read, I found a way to make it work. The ability to right click without an obvious right-click button is pretty slick. It looks every bit as cool as you think it will. I figured this mouse would be a natural.įirst, the mouse is dead sexy in person. Having owned an Iphone for a little over a year now, I’ve grown to love the multi-touch interface. The designe engineers at Apple really hit one out of the park with this baby. I mean just look at it! It’s sleek, it’s sexy, and it just oozes Appleness. When I first saw the announcement for Apple’s Magic Mouse, I knew right away that I simply had to have one. ![]()
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