At the post move lunch, I was talking to Rus and Jake about Apple’s new Mighty Mouse. If you haven’t seen it yet, the selling point is that Apple is finally producing a 2 button mouse where the top third of the mouse is a touch sensitive surface. Along with this, the scroll button is a scroll ball (kind of reminds me of arcade golf games) and there is a force sensitive button on each side. Their opinion after trying one is that it wasn’t the most intuitive mouse to use if all you really want is a 2 button mouse, and I should definitely try one before buying.
It happened that I was wandering around Valley Fair later that afternoon and decided to stop at the apple store to try one myself. For anyone that hasn’t tried one, apple mice work by pushing down on the entire mouse. To use the two button capability, you put a finger on the right side of top of the mouse (without touching the left side of top) and press down. It was one of those things that you could probably get used to after a while, but I find myself wondering why I should need to get used to some sort of new mouse paradigm when I’m fine with current 2 button mice. In the end, I’m going to wait and see if they improve the interaction model, and I probably won’t buy one until/unless they make a bluetooth version.
I later found a pretty good review of the mouse on Macworld. It was perhaps a little nicer than I would have been but it wasn’t too Apple biased.
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