Many have long complained that Apple never had a piece of mouse hardware with more than one button. Ever since the Lisa (and my Apple Mouse that I installed on my Apple //e long ago), Apple's been a one-button mouse sort of company.
Until today. Apple today releases not a two-button mouse, but actually a four-button mouse. But you say, they're no visible buttons. Here's a snippet of how Apple's copywriters explain it:
Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze.
Spry and Mighty
In the beginning, there was one button. Then there were two. Then there were clickable scroll wheels and programmable toggles and solid-state slides. But nobody made a mouse as easy to use as your Mac. Until now. Mighty Mouse combines the capability of a multibutton mouse with Apple’s signature top-shell design for the best of both form and function. Use it any way you work: Stick with single-button simplicity or click with multibutton efficiency.
It's $49, which isn't bad. It's Windows compatible, too. That's nice. It has a cord. That's bad.
While I definitely want to go play with one (anyone to the Apple store for lunch?), I'm pretty happy with my cordless Apple Bluetooth mouse. But the minute they make a cordless of this puppy, I'll want one. Bad.
Read more about the Mighty Mouse here.
-aB
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