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This is a good mouse. My only complaint is there's no way to program in a double click. To clean the little ball and restore your ability to scroll in all directions turn it upside down onto a clean sheet of paper laid out on a hard flat surface. Roll the mouse with moderate pressure on the ball, back and forth, up and down, round and round, etc, so as to let the paper absorb your finger grease in all dimensions and on all sides of the little ball. Flip it over and you're good to go again. Always use a clean sheet of absorbent paper, like copy paper or junk mail. It works every time. Problem solved.

I have been a Mac user since the first one came out and have had about 20 of them by now right up to the latest MacBook andthe last [plastic body] 24" iMac . The iMac came with the new mouse and Functionally it is great. It has almost as many options as a game controller although I do not use all of them. The side button s were a little sensitive or my grasp was not and I kept accidently activating them. I turned them off but will probably try again.

A great feature as well as the major problem is the tiny built in track ball. It works great until it gets dirty. Right now mine only works in three directions but not down. This is a major inconvenience. As people experienced with the old mice with that worked on a ball principle may remember, you often had to pull the ball out, clean it and clean the rollers. It was not a big deal and was relatively easy to do. The mighty mouse has no provision to clean the ball or associated detectors. To open the mouse up to clean it is a tricky proposition involving the removal of a glued in ring.

The only reason I can come up with for this design is that apple hopes to sell a lot of replacements like the one that I am buying

I work as a graphic designer and am on a Mac 8 hours a day or more. When my second Microsoft Intelipoint mouse in a year stopped working, our IT coordinator suggested I try the Mighty Mouse. At first I was intrigued, but my delight faded quickly.

Firstly, the scroll ball is too susceptible to hand oils and dirt build up, leaving it inoperable. Even if you clean it with an alcohol soaked cotton swab, it is doomed by it's design to keep "clogging" up.

Secondly, the programmable buttons are limited at best. I wanted to set it up to zoom in programs like Illustrator and Photoshop for detail work, but they only do a general zoom, not the program specific.

Thirdly, within a week my wrist started to ache. I have used various mice for years and never ran into wrist pain. I know ergonomics are somewhat subjective, but I was surprised how quickly my wrist rejected this mouse.

All that taken into account I switched back to my malfunctioning Microsoft (boo!) mouse and am still searching for a suitable replacement. Perhaps the Mighty Mouse is better suited for limited home use as opposed to a professional environment.

This is simply an awful product. Even the reviews on the MAC website concur with this opinion.

The problems are numerous: the cord is too short, the right-click button is difficult to consistently find/use, the scroll button broke after two months, and the two side buttons have NO USE whatsoever. In fact, the two side buttons take so much effort to press, I only used them a couple days because my wrist was becoming sore.

This is a product that should be avoided at all costs. The scroll button breaking issue has been reported by numerous users on reviews here and on MAC - this is not a fluke. I have nothing good to say about this product except that it looks nice.... but I'd take an ugly functional mouse over a pretty poorly-designed mouse any day.

This mouse sucks. I've had this product for years. The scroll wheel doesn't work. It isn't sensitive compared to other mice. To scroll down I have to click the sidebar which means more wrist effort. My wife's Lemel mouse was 25% the cost and is much more functional because it requires 25% of the wrist effort to move the cursor in the window and the scroll wheel works.

This product should be recalled. This is the second bad Apple mouse I've owned. Basta.

The only thing this mouse has going for it is the Apple look.