Andy Laub

You want this mouse. Image from Apple.

About time.

It only took a year since they released the wired version, but Apple has finally found us worthy of the Bluetooth Mighty Mouse. And what a mouse it is!

My biggest worry with this new one was that it would suffer from the same weight issue that plagued my other Apple mouse. Batteries are heavy! Apple realized this too, apparently, and so the new mouse can run on one or two batteries. With one in (my current setup), it’s not noticeably heavier than my wired version at work, which makes me extremely happy.

The laser tracking was the other big surprise, and works incredibly well on my desk, which isn’t so optimal for an optical mouse. My old mouse survived, but that was about it. There was some disappointment from Abe’s side of the office (since he also bought one) that you can’t actually see the laser on the laser mouse. But it’s there, it works, that’s what I care about.

There was a moment of panic during setup though. I paired the mouse up and adjusted the tracking using the current mouse driver. Then I put the CD in to install the new drivers, went through the restart, and suddenly it tracked dog-slow. I went back into the menu to find it was where I’d set it previously (2 notches from the top), and worried that I would be stuck with a mouse that didn’t move as fast as I’d hoped.

Fortunately, I needed to turn it off and replace the battery with a rechargeable one from the old mouse. Turning it back on, it was back to it’s speedy old self. I think what happened is it reset itself to the midline setting after the restart, and the mouse was stuck on the midline while the OS continued to show the 3rd fastest setting. Turning off the mouse and turning it back on caused it to check back with the computer to make sure it was set to the right speed, and now it works great.