The Good:
- Beautiful.
- Feels good in the hand. Nice heft, shape, table friction.
- Good BlueTooth sample rate. Other BlueTooth mice, including the earlier Mighty Mouse, suffered from jerky motion.
- Right click works now. With the Mighty Mouse you had to lift your index finger before clicking, which was exhausting.
- Multi-touch scrolling is smoother, more accurate, and feels better than all other mouse wheels I’ve tried.
- It’s ambidexterous.
The Bad:
- No middle click button. Dealbreaker.
- No browser back button. Dealbreaker.
Bottom Line:
I so wanted the Magic Mouse to be the first good Apple mouse, but middle click and back are musts for web browsing. The Magic Mouse is essentially a big multi-touch soft key, so let’s hope for software updates to add more gestures.
Until then, the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 is still my mouse of choice.
See Also: History of Apple mice & yet another history of Apple mice.
Correction: There actually is a back/forward browser gesture. It’s a two finger swipe and it works in Apple apps, not sure about Firefox.