![]() The application is seemingly unusual at first with the top surface of the mouse convex in shape (unlike the other multi-touch devices by Apple which are all flat) but still supporting multi-touch. ![]() The Magic Mouse borrows multi-touch technology which is now common place in other Apple products: MacBook and MacBook Pro TouchPads, iPod Touch and the iPhone. (Top Left: The Hockey Puck Mouse Top Right: The Apple Pro Mouse Bottom Left: The Mighty Mouse Bottom Right: The Magic Mouse)Īnd the stage is set for the new Magic Mouse - so named due to a copyright infringement brought against Apple for the old name Mighty Mouse. This time however there was no way to remove the ball to clean it (long a feature in ball mice) which lead many a Mac enthusiast to give up on the mouse entirely. Whilst the additional buttons were generally well received the scroll ball reintroduced the cleaning problems of ball based mice of the past and within months of use usually the scroll ball became clogged. In 2005 they tried the Mighty Mouse which added sensitivity for right-clicking and side-buttons as well as a scroll ball. It still was only one button (although the whole mouse was the button) when competing mice at the time were introducing scroll wheels and side buttons, although it had LED Optical tracking and departed from the problematic and cleaning intensive ball mice of the past. Apple came back with the Apple Pro Mouse which was a less stylish and more elongated version of the Hockey Puck in 2000. It all seemed to go off the rails for them with the “Hockey Puck” in 1998 whose round shape and size made it difficult to use (however stylish it was intended to be). Apple hasn’t had the best track record in recent years for making one of the most basic of Personal Computer input devices - the humble mouse.
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