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Apple’s new “Magic Mouse” features multi-touch technology
By Peter CohenOctober 20, 2009, 9:42 am PT
Apple on Tuesday introduced the Magic Mouse, a new $69 Bluetooth mouse that Apple bills “the world’s first multi-touch mouse.” It will be available in late October and comes bundled with Apple’s new iMacs.
The Magic Mouse eschews mechanical buttons, a scroll wheel and the scroll ball found on Apple’s Mighty Mouse all together, instead introducing a multi-touch surface that works across the entire top of the device.
This enables users to configure the mouse as a single or multi-button mouse, using finger gestures to scroll through documents, pan across images or move forward and backward through Web pages and other files. Such “multi-touch” gestures have become a defining characteristic of Apple’s laptop trackpads, and are heavily leveraged in the iPhone and iPod touch interfaces.
The Magic Mouse can operate wirelessly up to 10 feet away from a host computer. It runs on two AA batteries (included) and features power management.
The Magic Mouse requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.
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Minor correction to article: “Might Mouse” should be “Mighty Mouse.”
I also note that the Mighty Mouse seems to have been renamed Apple Mouse.
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I am so glad they are dropping the scroll ball.
I have never seen any Mighty Mouse scroll ball work reliabley yet.
I have a logitech mouse simply because I got sick and tired of the scroll ball failing to work and continuously having to clean it.
In other words, hallelujah!
Jim
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Just thinking about how easy that will be to clean makes me smile. I may actually keep this mouse when I get my next machine. (using a Razer Pro|Click on all my machines at the moment)
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I’ll be picking one of these up tomorrow. Thank god they got rid of the awful scroll ball.
I also have been using a Logitech mouse and also a microsoft mouse both of which had the conventional scroll wheel, the touch features sound intriguing but after a brief chat with Jim on twitter i’ll grab one.
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[...] shipping the quad-core 27-inch iMac. Apple introduced the new iMacs in late October, along with the Magic Mouse and new [...]
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Apple’s new “Magic Mouse” features multi-touch technology
By Peter CohenOctober 20, 2009, 9:42 am PT
Apple on Tuesday introduced the Magic Mouse, a new $69 Bluetooth mouse that Apple bills “the world’s first multi-touch mouse.” It will be available in late October and comes bundled with Apple’s new iMacs.
The Magic Mouse eschews mechanical buttons, a scroll wheel and the scroll ball found on Apple’s Mighty Mouse all together, instead introducing a multi-touch surface that works across the entire top of the device.
This enables users to configure the mouse as a single or multi-button mouse, using finger gestures to scroll through documents, pan across images or move forward and backward through Web pages and other files. Such “multi-touch” gestures have become a defining characteristic of Apple’s laptop trackpads, and are heavily leveraged in the iPhone and iPod touch interfaces.
The Magic Mouse can operate wirelessly up to 10 feet away from a host computer. It runs on two AA batteries (included) and features power management.
The Magic Mouse requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.
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Minor correction to article: “Might Mouse” should be “Mighty Mouse.”
I also note that the Mighty Mouse seems to have been renamed Apple Mouse.
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I am so glad they are dropping the scroll ball.
I have never seen any Mighty Mouse scroll ball work reliabley yet.
I have a logitech mouse simply because I got sick and tired of the scroll ball failing to work and continuously having to clean it.
In other words, hallelujah!
Jim -
Just thinking about how easy that will be to clean makes me smile. I may actually keep this mouse when I get my next machine. (using a Razer Pro|Click on all my machines at the moment)
-
I’ll be picking one of these up tomorrow. Thank god they got rid of the awful scroll ball.
I also have been using a Logitech mouse and also a microsoft mouse both of which had the conventional scroll wheel, the touch features sound intriguing but after a brief chat with Jim on twitter i’ll grab one.
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[...] in the last week. The company released a new Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server pre-installed, a new Magic Mouse, a new MacBook and new iMacs. We posted our review of the Magic Mouse and 27-inch iMac earlier this [...]
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[...] shipping the quad-core 27-inch iMac. Apple introduced the new iMacs in late October, along with the Magic Mouse and new [...]
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