Hi all. Just got my brand new shiny iMac yesterday. Find that the wired mighty mouse is rather sluggish at times. I've set the tracking speed to the fastest. The problem is the mouse tracking sometimes fast and slow, making me move my hand more than necessary just to move the cursor across the screen. Is this normal? Would my 1GB RAM caused such a sluggish mouse? This mouse is hurting my wrist already.

Nothing to do with your iMac bro, you need a good mousepad for the Mighty Mouse to work nicely. Had the same problem when I wasn't using any mousepad.

any where to get good mousepad online? nice design, wth the apple logo? preferably in black

Am just wondering, would a nice flat grey surface do instead of a mousepad? 1 less thing to mess my already messed up desk's always good

Problem solved. Mighty Mouse works great on a black dark surface. Was using an A4 paper that there rest of my cheapo mouse has no problem with.

@Timber,
That's good to hear Hope ur enjoying your new "toy". I've gotten used to the trackpad so there's really no need for a Mighty Mouse these days though I still carry one in my Crumpler It sure helps when doing Spreadsheets and I been told it's quite useful with CS3 programs except i'm no CS3 user

i am so gonna get one soon. if they ever come out with an aluminium, that would be cool. suits my mac.

i need a nice black mousepad

If I am not mistaken, wired mighty mouse is only using normal optical mouse method. Optical mouse will not work well on reflective surface.

Meanwhile the wireless mighty mouse is using laser, therefore it will not affected by the surface.

wired and wireless looks the same to me

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Added on December 1, 2007, 9:14 amjust checked, wow, one is laser, the other is optic

This post has been edited by rx330: Dec 1 2007, 09:14 AM

Lasers are GREAT

i thought there was glaser technology from a4tech?

sadly, not for me. my wireless mighty mouse wont work well on my table.
have to borrow my roomate mousepad. haish... and now, the scroll not working.
damn... 1 year warranty for mouse, right?

hmm i.ve a problem with my mighty mouse..it'll move automatically when i try to pointing it to somewhere..

why does it happen..ehh..care to share..??

most probably the surface where u place your mouse is reflective.

actually mouse pads that are too flat or even in colour will not work... the optical sensor works on detecting patterns movements... it'l scan the surface at high rates and make comparisons based on the patterns to judge movements...

Yup I have a A4Tech Glaser. Works well on wood and plastic
surfaces without mousepad.

I also have an old RM 90 logitech wireless. It's my main mouse
and works well on wood.

The original "capsule" apple mouse was a nice design but
quite fussy and the button died hence the logitech :-(

- yap

i do hate the scroll on the mighty mouse... it gets screwed up once in a while... and have to make sure my hand is absolutely dirt free when using the mouse... and i just give up on the right click on the mighty mouse.. it is a bit unpredictable... i rather just stick to the old Ctrl + click for right clicks...

haha..fren u waste the "mighty" feature lah..

Sell it to me then

You can get one from IKEA. Only RM2.90 as it works wonders.

Btw if anyone wants a mighty mouse, I am selling mine cos bored of it edi... Still in good condition.. still pure white . PM me if interested.

This post has been edited by J-Slade: Dec 4 2007, 12:27 PM

wow, ikea got ar? sweet

how much u seling? is it wireless?

After a few days using the mighty mouse, I have to admit the novelty sort of wears off. I often right-clicked when I wanted to left-clicked. A single hard shell body of the mouse doesn't help me to left-click faster than I used to.

maybe u still new to it..use it often and u wil find out it no dif. from other 2 button mouse.

har...... can right click one ar???????????????????????

sigh..... now only i know..... evrytime i need to press control for extended options....

@rx330,
Yes ur Mighty Mouse has a right click function. U just need to make sure u set it that's all Check out 'Preferences' and one of ur Mouse buttons to enable the right click function

ohhhhhh..... another new thing i learn today....

so have to set prference 1st ar? if those who dun have rite click how? have to do like wat i did? hold ctrl?

@rx330,
Yes u will need to set it to right click before it will. Otherwise, hold on to the CTRL key I too just found this out not too long ago

nice.......... later i go back home and try

and new discoveries?

Erm.... do you know there is 3rd button (click the scroll button) and 4th button (on the side of the mouse) and it is configurable? I've set my 3rd button to launch Expose and 4th button to launch Spaces.

And you can set the scroll mouse to scroll 360 degrees. Handy if you need to photoshop some large images.

my click scroll button is open widgets , and the side of the mouse is to view all open pages

standard settings i suppose

doesn't belong to me... company property...

yes... that was what i wanted to say... you have to spread your left and right click very far apart to get it to left and right click correctly... it is not easy to get it to work as you want it to...

theoratically... you're right... practically...it is quite a lot of difference... maybe some of us are just plain picky

the side buttons are even more annoying... anything that is programmed to that button will just run when you grab the mouse harder... or maybe i have superman's grip

u need to ease on ur grip
sometimes i couldnt get the side buttons to work, especially on the wireless migthy mouse

I just gotten my Wireless mighty mouse and it works excellent for me !The 360 scroll is my favourites !

my scroll already rosak...waaa~

so fast? got warranty?

yep...so fast. bought on july this year. shud have.
i'll send for warranty next week

hmmm... has it anything to do with mfg country?

its made in msia......

ohh.. it is made in malaysia now... no longer china?

this is the most uninteresting thing about mac...

DESIGN IN CALIFORNIA...

MADE IN CHINA...

after spending loads of money buying one...you see this.. imagine what you felt like...

anyways... i am just not compatible with the mighty mouse.. and i never like wireless mouse... for one it is heavy and i am a clumsy person as i might drop the mouse... and the cord is actually a lifesaver for the mouse to hang on to the usb port incase you drop it

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Added on December 6, 2007, 1:22 pmso fast.. it is quite impossible... maybe it is just dirty.. that is what happened to me most of the time (used to)...

just get a small piece of cloth tissue (anything thin) or anything, damp it a bit (i tried alcohol)... press on the scrolll ball and use your finger to turn the scroll ball to scrub it...that works most of the time... i think it is just dirty only...

i normally encounter the scroll ball only able to scroll down and not up....

this guy operated his mighty mouse...
Mighty Mouse

notice one thing... the speakers for the scrolling sound...

try not to do this (really).. you'll end up having a hard time putting it back apparently (or maybe i am just not good at putting back things together)... i did it with the old apple pro mouse... it does not work well after glueing and assembling all the pieces back...

This post has been edited by butthead: Dec 6 2007, 01:30 PM

My scroll ball also very faulty lah. Whole day can scroll up cannot scroll down. Gonna send back to the store for replacement soon, me thinks if it goes on like this, I'll get to replace my mouse every year XD

true. at first i cant scroll up, can only went down.
now, both cannot.
tried cleaning the scroll, but not working...

then you should just throw it back at them... and i mean "throw"...haha...

it's a RM199 mouse anyway...

no! its a RM289 mouse anyway! grrr...

sure will, next week i'm gonna send it away.

wireless lar butthead, not the wired one

my wife doesnt like the right click.... i change the settings back liao

This post has been edited by rx330: Dec 7 2007, 01:50 PM

maybe your wife is just not meant to be a mac user... just kiddin

i wonder what made apple change a 20+ year tradition of maintaining a single button mouse??

lucky your wife is not using the round mouse from the old imacs... she'll be screaming her head off...haha... that mouse use to make my hand cramp from the awkward way of holding it...

my wife prefer single click lar.....

just buy her an apple pro mouse... dunno whether it is still available...

hey actually i feel that apple pro mouse is more special the design. i found one in lelong.com.my RM150 eh so expensive but is new one without open the wrapped box. is sarawak de that company, but my cousin seems to give me his apple pro mouse and apple keyboard for free after having a set of new apple mouse and keyboard. so i think i don't go for it. ermm found some in ebay and amazon as well, have a try.

pro mouse different?

it is the 1 model older single click mouse...

no scroll and no right click...available in black or white... white are mostly the ones that come with the newer model of macs..

wow, looks nice.....