Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse Review

This is kind of like third in a series of three reviews. I had a laptop mishap, damaging the display on my MacBook. See my reviews on the <a href="http://www.viewpoints.com/Dell-IN1910N-Flat-Panel-Monitor-review-235b5">Dell IN1910N Flat Panel Monitor</a> and <a href="http://www.viewpoints.com/Apple-Wireless-Keyboard-review-db1d4">Apple Wireless Keyboard</a> to find out the full sordid story of what happened and why I'm using my MacBook closed up as a desktop.

With a monitor plugged in and a wireless keyboard, I now needed a wireless mouse. Had I bought non-Apple, I could have gotten a keyboard for much less and that had a track pad included on t he keyboard, but as I mentioned in the Wireless Keyboard review, with that I wouldn't have the hot keys, and I'd also be using up valuable USB ports.

So the next step after the Dell Monitor and Apple Wireless Keyboard was of course the mouse, and in this case the Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse. It works exactly the same as the Wired Mighty Mouse I have plugged in downstairs on the iMac that my kids have been rendered useless by downloading way too much onto it and only leaving 4 GB. Too bad you can't purge a system with it off. But, I digress.

The setup of the wireless Mightly Mouse was troubled, as the setup was for the Wireless Keyboard. Again, it was old literature and instructions that didn't work the same. I figured it out, but it was frustrating in the process on a day where I had done nothing other than drive to the Apple Store, wait, drive to Best Buy, drive to a Best Buy that was authorized to sell Apple products in order to get an adapter for a monitor, then drive home. It had to be paired up through Bluetooth, and I had to open up the laptop and use that keyboard to get to the point of being able to pair it up.

Again, it's identical to the wired Mighty Mouse. It has a trackball on the top, and a button on each side. I don't have any use for the extra buttons. I'm an Apple user since way back, 1989 in fact, so I'm used to one buttom mice. In fact the first computer I used with a mouse with a Mac II. The track ball works great scrolling up and down, but I don't seem to be able to use it to scroll side to side.

The power button is on the bottom, and sometimes when it seems it's not recognizing it, I just turn it off and back on and it takes care of it. So that I don't have to keep moving the whole setup to turn it off and on, I just leave it all turned on, but log out of my screen. So that my well-meaning son doesn't try logging in, even though he doesn't have my password (he's threatened to try every combination of letters and numbers there is. He's presently doing that for the password lock on the R rated movies on cable. He's up to the 0600s), I take the mouse and keyboard downstairs with me when I go to bed. The distance of these is so great, that he says he can tell when I wake up, as the screensaver stops, and he can see the cursor moving around the screen and characters being typed in the password field as I carry them up the stairs.

The Mighty Mouse works well enough, but I'd really grown attached to the trackpad. If I resort to using a wireless keyboard for more options once I replace my laptop, I'll of course still use the Mighty Mouse, although Apple has a new mouse out there that definitely looks interesting/!