Apple Is Reinventing The Mouse. Now, It's The Mighty Mouse!

Apple has finally done it. No, no! It's not about the iPod video. It's about The Mouse; or better said The Mighty Mouse. After 21 years of resistance, Apple has decided that two buttons for a mouse are just fine, even if it's a mouse for Mac. Definitely, Apple is determined to take everyone by surprise this year. First, the company switched to Intel and now that?

At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze.

Mighty Mouse combines the capability of a multibutton mouse with Apple's signature top-shell design for the best of both form and function. Use it any way you work: Stick with single-button simplicity or click with multibutton efficiency.


Mighty Mouse offers 360-degree scrolling capability, thanks to its Scroll Ball, perfectly positioned to roll smoothly under just one finger. Explore the farthest reaches of your files - pan images in iPhoto, view timelines in iMovie HD and Final Cut Pro, traverse bars in GarageBand and Logic Pro - with one hand tied behind your back (or holding a cup of coffee or typing). Mighty Mouse gives you room to roam.

Touch-sensitive technology under Mighty Mouse's seamless top shell detect where you're clicking, transforming your sleek, one-button mouse into a two-button wonder. But the innovation doesn't end there. Apple engineers added force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse that let you squeeze the mouse between your thumb and finger, activating Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard, Expos� or a whole host of other, customizable features - instantly.


Unlike any other mouse on the market, Mighty Mouse was designed specifically to work with Mac OS X Tiger. Up-to-the minute information on Dashboard is only a click away. Viewing, hiding and selecting your windows via Expos� is just as simple. And because Mac OS X Tiger makes Mighty Mouse programmable, you choose where every click takes you.

Mighty Mouse is compatible with both Mac OS X (all flavours, though OS X 10.4.2 is required for button programming) and PCs via USB. For more information, go to www.apple.com/uk/mightymouse.

Well, maybe for the world it's not big news, but for the Mac community, it looks like an earthquake. We will publish a review later this week.