PNWDweller Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 After just 1 year of using, my Mighty Mouse isn't so mighty anymore. Like most people out there who have had one, I am sadly retiring it. First, it was intermittent, but the scroll ball refused to scroll the pages down. Easy fix for the most part - clean the mouse scroll ball by following Apple's directions and other suggestions online. I never pulled it apart, so NOT ALL directions were followed. ;) Anyway, this last week, I noticed that sometimes the left click was being confused as the right click. I dismissed that since it might have had something to do with their touch interface built into the mouse getting confused. No worries. It started happening more. So, this morning, I am happily browsing through the web sites, scrolling down with the mouse, and this time, the mouse ball is no longer working, except to go up, left, and right. And no matter how much cleaning I tried, it has not fixed it. Does anyone else think that while the Mighty Mouse while good in design, suffers very much with the scroll ball? I used to have a blackberry pearl, which did the same thing, the scroll ball would refuse to scroll after a while. Those you could pull out and swap easily or clean with water or chemicals and put back in and it would work for weeks or months. Not the case so much with the mighty mouse unless you want to break it open. (See Google for help on that one). I am now using a very noisy "clicky" mouse which pales in comparison until I can go out and get a suitable replacement. ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbauer Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 The mighty mouse is horrible. A complete waste of money. Almost any mouse is better than the mighty mouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHALE Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 I?ve had mine for about 2 years, ans I been having the same problems. I will be getting a new mouse in the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_Guy Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 The mighty mouse is horrible. A complete waste of money. Almost any mouse is better than the mighty mouse. Yup, virtually every Mac in our organization has a Microsoft mouse on it. After all this time, Apple still only has it half right. The second mouse button works... but they can't be bothered to ship a 2-button mouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted May 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 27, 2009 I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action lawsuit for the quality of these mice yet - every single one I and my friends have owned has has the "ball doesn't scroll up/down issue" - so it's quite obviously a build defect, yet they seem to be getting away with not fixing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted May 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 27, 2009 It seemed like such a cool idea. I saw them at Best Buy and thought, "Why didn't anyone else think of that?" :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyLarry Veteran Posted May 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 27, 2009 I have about three of them untouched in my "Various Computer Parts" plastic bin in my basement. Well thats not compeltely true, I tried using one for about 4 days, then never touched it again. Truly one of the only things Apple's design team got completely wrong, which I cannot help but think is a direct result of trying to "Think Different" so it is not fully their fault. The whole ball concept tends eventually not to work whenever it is implemented honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbauer Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Yup, virtually every Mac in our organization has a Microsoft mouse on it. After all this time, Apple still only has it half right. The second mouse button works... but they can't be bothered to ship a 2-button mouse. I use a MX518 with mine. Works great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted May 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 27, 2009 Worst mouse ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furyshinobi Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 I feel everyone's pain of those who use Apple's not-so-mighty Mouse. I am currently having the exact same problems as the OP but I still keep using it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suspiria Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 When using it in the Apple Store when first released I was so taken by it, but when I bought it and actually used it I wanted to flush the stupid thing down the toilet with the rest of the waste. The mouse is just garbage. It looks nice, but that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X@vier Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 The mighty mouse is the worst mouse i have ever used, and is also one of the most expensive ones out there. :wacko: I had/have the same problem and the bluetooth version of it is no diff. :angry: please don't buy another mighty mouse!!!! ~X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xero Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Wow, so much hate for the lil guy! :laugh: I personally love the mouse, it's shape is very comfortable to hold. It's natural, Microsoft mice while they are very nice aren't natural you need to hold it more or less. Which is great for gaming but for work its more than it needs to be. I ended up having problems with my thumb because of the way I had to hold their mice. Haven't had a problem since I switched to the mighty mouse. However I can't say the mouse wheel doesn't have its fair share of problems. Currently mine doesn't work :( The reason people can't sue is because its our greasy/sweaty hands that make it not work, it can easily get dirty and cause it not to catch when trying to scroll. The answer is to clean your hands very often but how many of us do that? Sure they could have built it better but we could have kept our hands cleaner, they cancel each other out :( Awhile back they had patents for a multi-touch mighty mouse that had no scroll ball at all. That was several years ago so we might get to see it sooner than later. They could use the same technology to make the second mouse button actually work. They can leave the single "button click" just have it detect which finger is pressing it as right now it fails to detect what is actually a left vs right click quite often. Plus depending where you got yours I've just gone back to the Apple Store with mine, and they swapped it out there for me. Granted several weeks later it suffered the same fate they at least replaced it for nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted May 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 27, 2009 I do like the shape and feel of the mighty mouse but still use a trusty Microsoft optical mouse on my iMac. Because I occasionally play games, the right / left button detection is too unpredictable to trust it in games like Battlefield 2.. lost count of the amount of times I've ran up to someone and hit fire only for nothing to happen because it thought I clicked the other mouse button! Lovely mouse if you're only doing desktop / productivity stuff tho :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted May 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 27, 2009 The mouse I looked at must've been a different model, then. I could have sworn it had two buttons + the scroll ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted May 27, 2009 Author Share Posted May 27, 2009 The mighty mouse has one on each side of the mouse, then the click mech on the top, touch sensors on each side of the top to indicate left or right click, then scroll ball which also clicks when pressed to activate dashboard or whatever else you might have it set to do. I got my mighty mouse with the computer straight from Apple. Come to think of it, the machine does have the extended Apple care warranty, might just go ahead and do a switcharoo. One issue with that though is I bought this computer brand new from a friend who I am still paying off from the purchase of the computer. So, the warranty is in his name until I pay it off. Which at this point may not be for quite some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xero Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 If you can talk good you can probably get them to swap it without needing to show any warranty information. I've exchanged 2 of them and both times I just came in with the mouse and said it stopped working and I can't get the damn thing to scroll anymore. As long as it's clean and in good condition they don't seem to care. And I know what you mean Chicane, I HATE the mighty mouse for games. It's awful, you definitely need a good Logitech or my personal favorite a Microsoft mouse. But for day to day work I need my mighty mouse :D For those interested, here is the picture submitted with the patent. And below that are some artist renditions of the new mouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyJordan Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 If those pictures really are the new Mighty Mouse, how are you gonna scroll with that when there's no ball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted May 27, 2009 Author Share Posted May 27, 2009 If those pictures really are the new Mighty Mouse, how are you gonna scroll with that when there's no ball? Probably a touch interface similar to the trackpads on notebooks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted May 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 27, 2009 If those pictures really are the new Mighty Mouse, how are you gonna scroll with that when there's no ball? Telepathy. It will come with a red pill. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbauer Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 If those pictures really are the new Mighty Mouse, how are you gonna scroll with that when there's no ball? Same way you scroll on the notebooks - two fingers on the pad going up or down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xero Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Can't seem to find the original patent filing but basically the sides and middle detect what's being done. To scroll you just move your finger up and down the middle like you would if there was a ball. To click just press down on the side you want it to click. Basically a more advanced version of the current one with significantly better detection. Since it's multi-touch it also opens the door for gesture based controls for pinch zooming, rotating, swipes ect. While you don't really NEED that flexibility its nice that it has it. Think of it as a trackpad on your mouse. But don't think you need to control it like you would a normal trackpad, ie, 2 finger scrolling, moving cursor. I believe you could just "tap" to select items like normal trackpads but you can still depress the top half like the current one. I'm more interested if they take the aluminum route. I'd love a metal mouse like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NienorGT Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 This mouse had every thing in to make the best "stock" mouse. But Apple went too far and actually screwed it. Damn, this mouse even include a speaker... http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/08/dissect.ars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted May 28, 2009 Author Share Posted May 28, 2009 I wonder if my current mighty mouse has a speaker in it. I also wonder why nobody has reverse engineered it to play music or other things with it just as a little hack. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterC Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 I've gone through a few Mighty Mice. All of the them have the same problem after a while - it stops scrolling up or down. If I didn't get them replaced for free, I wouldn't pay for them. They're not worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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