"Mighty Mouse" with MacBook Sucks. Any Recommendatins?

Why not leave the mouse set for a standard click on both buttons and change the "right click" to another button like the scroll ball or the sides? That should differentiate it for you.

-Doug

The Apple wireless mighty mouse already has a built in right click, even though there is only one button. All you need to do is (as you have two fingers on your mouse) take your index finger off, and click with your middle finger to the right of the scroll wheel. The mouse will detect that you only had one finger on the mouse and right-click.

Check out this link:
http://showmeprotools.com/apple-mighty-mouse-to-right-click-in-protools/

Undead Hippies wrote:
All you need to do is (as you have two fingers on your mouse) take your index finger off, and click with your middle finger to the right of the scroll wheel. The mouse will detect that you only had one finger on the mouse and right-click.

NOW, that's cool. I've been using the Mighty Mouse for about 3 months now and most of the time when I click on the right (middle finger) it works although every once in a while it ddn't. Guess I had my left finger still on the mouse when it didn't work!

Now my Mighty Mouse just went from being great to BEING GREAT!

THANKS!

I had two Bluetooth rodents that worked just fine with my new MacBook. I thought I'd try the not-so-Mighty MacRodent at an Apple store. Couldn't stand it. It's got to be the least ergonomic, most form-over-function rodent since the hockey-puck (which I didn't like either).

My two existing rodents are an MSI 100 and, ironically, a Microsoft 5000. Scroll wheels, yada, yada, all "just work". Both are optical and actually fit my large paw without being large themselves. Both are symmetrical and being slightly rodent ambidextrous I've used 'em sinister in comfort as well. I just checked and the MS 5000 is available for 3 Hamiltons from my favourite egg-cellent online purveyor.

James

I have to give the nod to the Mighty Mouse. I've been a MB user now for 360 days (I bought it on Dec 26th last year). I started off with a couple of Logitech Bluetoother's and for the most part, they were fine. However, about every 4th or 5th time I started up my MB from sleep, my mouse couldn't/wouldn't connect in the BT mode. Some times I could coax it to life, but more often than not, I had to do a reboot to bring the Logitech mice back to life.

I tried the Mighty Mouse a couple of times at the Apple Store, but just didn't like the fit. Finally, sick of the Logitech woes, I decided to give the "Mighty" a real test and it hasn't failed me once. Love the feel now except that sometimes I pick it up backward. It's never failed me, it always connects in the BT mode and I highly recommend it to anyone with a Mac. Don't know how it would work with a PC, but I don't care.

And yes, I still use a Logitech mouse, but only with my desktop PC. Someday soon, I'll probably replace the PC with a iMac along with a Mighty for it also.

My favorite mice has always been Logitech Mice. I understand you've had a bad experience with their Bluetooth line, but their 2.4ghz RF Receiver Mice are great. I would suggest a VX Nano or VX Revolution (I have both) and they're quite nice...

That said, the multitouch on this Macbook hasn't had me running for a mouse quite yet. The trackpad is great (Can't say that much for my MSI Wind)...

Jonathan

I'm just not a "track-touch" guy, so I depend on my mouse for faster productivity. Looks like we may be on parallels tracks. I'm getting a Acer Aspire One for Christmas (mainly if not 100% for travel only). One day I expect Apple will have a computer in this size format, but at a much higher cost which wouldn't be worth it to me as a travel machine only.

Have you installed OS X on your MSI Wind? I'm VERY slightly thinking of doing it on the Acer. However, there seems to be a problem using the built-in WiFi with OS X on the Acer. So, I'll probably just leave it alone and go with Windows XP.

Re my Logitech BT mice, they just were not 100% reliable coming out of the sleep mode with my MB. Maybe I'll give one of the ones you have if my Mighty Mouse bites the dust.

I definitely agree that a mouse is the way to go when it comes to speed and precision, especially for long hours of work. I guess I was just making note that the multi-touch trackpad hasn't had me running for a mouse yet, in comparison to my MSI Wind, which I can't stand to use without the mouse. I guess the ability to use Expose plus two finger scroll right on the trackpad makes things very nice.

I forgot to mention this in the other post, but the "issue" you may have with the 2.4GHZ Logitech Mice, is that they require a dongle to be plugged into the USB port, making it look a little unsightly. The VX Nano has a really tiny one you can leave in the USB port all of the time, but it still sticks out a little, probably 3mm or so. You can stick it back in the mouse when you're done, but you have to open the battery cover. The VX Revolution's Receiver is about an inch long, but it stores away nicely in the mouse when you're done with it. It has a little slot to plug it into, which turns off the mouse as well. If you don't care about that, then its definitely worth a try.

Do you also happen to know if you were using an Optical or Laser mouse? I haven't had too much issue with either of them, but the VX line I mentioned above all use Laser tracking. Supposedly Laser gives better accuracy. If you don't want the unsightly receivers, they may make a "Laser" mouse that also uses Bluetooth as well... maybe something to look into.

Anyway, I did install OS X on the MSI Wind. I had a spare Dell Wireless 1500 around (stole it from my other Dell), that uses a wireless chipset that OS X supports, so it worked perfectly fine and as a fully functional OS X machine. That is, until I upgraded to 10.5.6...

Are you sure you're already getting an Acer Aspire One? If possible, you should check out the Wind if you plan on using a mouse most of the time. There is already a straight MSI Wind install for OSX, that has just about everything you need, making it very simple to load OS X... If you do indeed get the Aspire One for X-Mas, its a great netbook as well. I don't know if its possible on the Aspire One to change the Wireless Chip, but if you do, it sounds like you can get it running OS X with no problem.

In a month or two, how about posting how reliable your Logitech BT mouse is? As I mentioned above, I used a Logitech for about 8 months before tossing in the towel. Every once in a while when coming out of sleep mode, the computer failed to bond with the mouse.

IF I had the touch pad enabled, sometimes by opening the dropdown BT menu, I could engage the mouse. And it always engaged from a cold boot. The problem with doing the cold boot is that I had no pointer to shut the computer down normally, so I had to do a "crash" shutdown. I had 2 Logitech BT mice that did the same thing. The reason I had no pointer was because I had the touch pad turned off when a mouse was "present" and I guess even though my mouse didn't work, it was considered "present".

If you do want a double click mouse, I found that the Razer Pro|Click Mobile Notebook Mouse is quite nice (Even comes in 4 colours)

No drivers required so don't have any hassle and its quite affordable from my view.

Only draw back is that it runs on AA batteries (if you are the type that wants rechargeable ones Logitech and one Targus is what I know of so far) and that it has very basic mouse buttons (just left and right click with the scroll and scroll click)

But all in all, I would recommend it.