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So I took a walk and headed over to Ginza on my lunch break. Hit the Apple Store there and bought myself a Mighty Mouse. Some quick thoughts on this thing:
- It’s not a bad mouse. The right- and left-clicking work fine, although I prefer the Logitech mouse I use at home, with its separate buttons. This whole “one button with sensors to figure out where you’re clicking on the mouse surface” approach means that when you want to left-click, you can pretty much have your fingers all over the place, but when it’s time to right-click, you need to lift up everything that isn’t on the right side of the clicking surface.
- The scroll ball is pretty sweet. I loaded up some big photos in a small window and zipped up and down, back and forth. You can’t really go 360 degrees with this thing; like the Ars Technica review notes, it’s more of a “moving in squares” sort of motion. Or Tron light cycles, or something.
- It’s way too freaking hot to be taking lunchtime walks in Tokyo, Japan. Seriously.
- The Mighty Mouse, like Tokyo, is a hot item today . . . There was a pretty long line in the Apple Store, and probably four in every five people in it had one of those little black boxes.
- I need to get this damn PowerBook fixed already . . . It won’t read the CD that came with the mouse, so I can’t get the side-squeeze action going yet. Argh.
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