November 25, 2003
A Better Apple Wireless Mouse
There are only a few times when a situation exists where you are waiting to hand a company money if they would just come out with a product you know you want, yet don't see anywhere on the horizon, and even fewer when that product is no blatantly obvious that is painful to not see that product on the market. I am not so sure that I want to get into the issue of why Apple, stubbornly, does not have a multi-button mouse, but the fact that they spent R&D creating a beautiful Bluetooth mouse for all their machines with built in BT and made it only one button is simply astonishing.
So in my frustration, I decided to see what one could look like, and if it could retain the mac look and left/right functionality, and 5 mintues later, voila...
A 2 button plus scroll wheel option:
And a 5 button option:
(after having back/forward mouse buttons I cannot go back)
The point is that I am sure it can be done, it can be made left/right compatible and only serves to help the user, I cannot agree that there are users out there that would be confused by a 2 button mouse or a scroll wheel.
Comments
Logitech has been making impressive Bluetooth Wireless mice.
Logitech Website
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com | November 25, 2003 04:01 PM
I know, I actually have a nice logitech Mx700 RF wireless on the desktop PC here, but they all need the Bluetooth hubs along with them and do not advertise Mac OS X compatibility. The new mac laptops are so nice with built in BT, not having to have another hub plugged in which kind of negates the real use of a wireless mouse with a laptop.
Posted by: Anthony | November 25, 2003 04:06 PM
The Logitech MX900 Bluetooth mouse mentioned above, does work with a bluetooth enabled mac in OSX, either built in or added(D-Link) But it only has limited functionality. See the link:
Mac NN Forum
I'm pleading with everyone who reads this to please e-mail Logitech and ask for Mac support.
Link here:
Logitech Support
It only takes less than a minute to e-mail them, please help, thanks.
Posted by: Rich C | November 26, 2003 07:13 AM
Sony has a "no button" mouse that does left- and right-clicking. Looks great, too.
Posted by: Tom McBaum | November 26, 2003 09:28 AM
Sony also makes this wacky ass mouse.
A round shaped mouse
Posted by: Anthony Ianniciello | November 26, 2003 09:51 AM
If only Apple would have a brief moment of claity in their clouded world of self delusion and come out with modern mice as you describe. It would also go toward giving the company some credibility as many people believe only a company led by fools or idiots would persist in shipping mice like Apple's.
Posted by: Richard | November 26, 2003 11:04 AM
OK, this is a little scary....
http://www.macmice.com/themouse.html
It's a thing of beauty, it is....
Posted by: Eric | December 1, 2003 05:38 PM
Nice, but it's not wireless/bluetooth.
Posted by: Anthony Ianniciello | December 1, 2003 09:10 PM
Logitech has shitty Mac support. Instead of petitioning them for it, why don't you just buy a kensington or some other brand that has good mac support. After all there's no such thing as "it's a great mouse...except for the software." If the software/drivers for it either don't work well or are non-existent then it's a crappy mouse, period.
Posted by: scott | January 8, 2004 10:55 AM
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Posted by: tyler | January 9, 2004 10:57 AM
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Posted by: tyler | January 9, 2004 10:57 AM
The Mouse BT (Bluetooth)
Alkaline battery
On-off switch
Same size/shape as The Mouse USB
White, black, and "aluminum" colors
April 10th, 2004
MSRP $69.99
Posted by: Jack Campbell | February 14, 2004 08:13 PM
Jack, that sounds great. Does it have 4 buttons plus scroll or just 2 + scroll?
Posted by: Anthony Ianniciello | February 16, 2004 11:07 AM
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Catch Me If You Can Pt II: The True Story Behind MacMice
Posted by: JackWhispers | August 1, 2004 12:26 PM
Wait...
People still use Macs?
Posted by: Malcom | March 16, 2005 10:23 PM