Alternative to Wireless Mighty Mouse?

Robert La Ferla robertlaferla at comcast.net
Fri Apr 27 19:36:57 PDT 2007


I recently purchased a Wireless Mighty Mouse.  It's a flawed  
product.  First, the Bluetooth connection would get lost and then my  
system got a kernel panic.  That's a driver issue so I figured I'd  
live with it until Apple fixed it.  But the bigger issue is the right  
button.  To use it, you need to not touch the left side of the  
mouse.  I found this bit of information by searching around on the  
web.   However, even that does not work reliably.  It seems that  
Apple is fixated on the one-button mouse and can't really get their  
heads around a two-button one.  It reminds me of when everyone  
screamed for a NeXT floppy drive and NeXT didn't listen until it was  
too late.  Apple can and should do better than this.  There are some  
things I like about the mighty mouse - two batteries (so you don't  
have to change them constantly), bluetooth security and better  
tracking.  I had a "Microsoft Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 6000"  
before this and it was better ergonomically and the buttons always  
worked.  It had it's downside too.  The tracking was terrible and it  
used batteries like water.  Someone can surely do better.  We need a  
wireless (Bluetooth) mouse that has good ergonomics and left/right  
buttons like the MS mouse, a trackball like the Apple mighty mouse,  
and fine tracking like the Apple mouse.  Anyone have any suggestions?

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ 
productdetails.aspx?pid=048
http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/


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