There are pigs flying outside my window! What madness is this? Apple is selling a scroll wheel mouse! And what’s this? Left and right clicks? Multiple buttons? Is it’s April 1st, 2006 already?

http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/

Order yours now!

The wireless mouse you referred to (Bluetooth version) only works with Mac, the one groovy pointed out works with Windows.  :wink:

But… but won’t Mac users be confused by all the new button clicks on these mice?

[quote author=“Anonymous”]Order it ???

My my, where are you??

Have had the wireless version for over a month now,

Works like a dream.

It is my understanding that the wireless version (via Bluetooth) doesn’t have all of these new features. So, it’s certainly not a “mighty mouse”... :wink:

this reminds me of the SMU-US1/B that sony sold lil whlie back. except the sony was wired… i hv no need for wireless mouse anyways so….

Oh no, is this Apple actually copying a PC product? Dear lord, what is the world coming to…Apple Fanboys, feel free to cry now. 

Of course, they do it their own way with a tiny 3rd ‘wheel’ thing, but its all good.

Erik

Been using a two button scroll wheel mouse (PC one) for ages on my Mac. Been a Mac guy forever but one click has always given me the s*#ts! You could always right click by holding down a button but it seemed awkward and unnessecary to me.

So score one to the PC. Now when is apple going to bring out a butt ugly case and start to require drivers for everything you plug in

[quote author=“japaneseimportscomau”]...start to require drivers for everything you plug in

That will happen when the Mac platform decides to natively support more than a few printers, a few phones, a few graphics cards, etc. If the Mac had to support all of the various types of hardware a Windows system had to then it would need drivers also.

[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”][quote author=“japaneseimportscomau”]...start to require drivers for everything you plug in

That will happen when the Mac platform decides to natively support more than a few printers, a few phones, a few graphics cards, etc. If the Mac had to support all of the various types of hardware a Windows system had to then it would need drivers also.

Don’t get me wrong as I’m a PC and a Mac person. I have more PC’s than Mac’s in my house

But…..Hmmm. I’m sorry but i’d have to disagree just on personal experience.

Cases in point: I just bought myself an iBook G4 running oSX and decided it is to be my main work machine. Wanting to reduce some costs moving from the PC I decided to check some things before buying new acc’s. I plugged in both my wired microsoft mouse and my wireless usb mouse. Both just worked. I tried my USB printer (HP one). And low and behold, printing began. This is the same printer that I had to install drivers for on the XP PC and had to also install the utility or it just wouldn’t work. Imagine my surprise when not only did a little picture of my exact printer appear on the dock but also it had the utility for checking ink levels, cleaning heads etc. Cool. Then I had this funky little Sony Bluetooth USB (BA1). Now when I got it from Japan I also had to get the driver, the hack for the driver, the bluetooth app, the hack and english mod for the app. So I didn’t expect much from the apple but hell, just plug it in, it works or it doesn’t. Well it worked. Out of the box. Since then I plug everything in! Mp3 players, USB drives, printers, readers, you name it. And I’ve had one piece of hardware fail so far. One!

[quote author=“japaneseimportscomau”][quote author=“gr00vy0ne”][quote author=“japaneseimportscomau”]...start to require drivers for everything you plug in

That will happen when the Mac platform decides to natively support more than a few printers, a few phones, a few graphics cards, etc. If the Mac had to support all of the various types of hardware a Windows system had to then it would need drivers also.

Don’t get me wrong as I’m a PC and a Mac person. I have more PC’s than Mac’s in my house

But…..Hmmm. I’m sorry but i’d have to disagree just on personal experience.

Cases in point: I just bought myself an iBook G4 running oSX and decided it is to be my main work machine. Wanting to reduce some costs moving from the PC I decided to check some things before buying new acc’s. I plugged in both my wired microsoft mouse and my wireless usb mouse. Both just worked. I tried my USB printer (HP one). And low and behold, printing began. This is the same printer that I had to install drivers for on the XP PC and had to also install the utility or it just wouldn’t work. Imagine my surprise when not only did a little picture of my exact printer appear on the dock but also it had the utility for checking ink levels, cleaning heads etc. Cool. Then I had this funky little Sony Bluetooth USB (BA1). Now when I got it from Japan I also had to get the driver, the hack for the driver, the bluetooth app, the hack and english mod for the app. So I didn’t expect much from the apple but hell, just plug it in, it works or it doesn’t. Well it worked. Out of the box. Since then I plug everything in! Mp3 players, USB drives, printers, readers, you name it. And I’ve had one piece of hardware fail so far. One!

My experience has been the complete opposite. I support several Mac only clients who are trying to run businesses with Macs and it’s a painful process. Network printing is a nightmare at best with very few systems support OS X natively. Not only are there no drivers available but it requires a third party hack (using a completely different model driver) for it to work. Palm Treos need drivers and software installed. Various Epson and HP printers all require drivers and up until OS X 10.3, printer setup was a joke.

Anyways, that’s besides the point. The main point was that the PC has to support a vastly greater amount of hardware than the Mac does. As a result it’s unfair to compare the two. Also, Windows XP shipped in 2001. OS X 10.4 only shipped a few months ago and you were charged for it unless you bought a new system. So you could look at as you essentially paying $149 for integrated driver support along with service pack type upgrades. You may have paid more if you paid for 10.2 and 10.3 along the way.

I’m sure a lot of stuff would work on XP using the drivers that already come with XP, but to use the product to it’s full potential, you would need to install the drivers that come alongwith the product. I’ve never used a Mac, but I suppose the same would be the case for the Mac as well.