I've written about my obsession with finding the perfect mouse before. I've had so many mice the past few years and I've still yet to find the right one.
For the last 16 months or so I've been using an extremely cheap but surprisingly good Logitech LX7 USB cordless mouse. I say surprisingly good because at under $40, I expected it to be a total piece of garbage. It works well, however, ignoring the fact that it has a huge dongle and loses its connection all the time. It's also completely hand-neutral, so it's comfortable with my left hand. In fact, if it weren't for the disconnections, occasional skipping and such, I'd be perfectly happy with it.
But I want the perfect mouse. I want something that works well all the time, is comfortable, and never makes me think about the fact that I'm using it. So I'm always looking.
People always tell me the wireless Mighty Mouse is great. I know people who are huge fans of it. They say that it's much better than the wired version and that it works really well. They're liars.
I bought the original wireless Mighty Mouse and declared it shit immediately. One year later now, I've just purchased the newer model (which I was hoping had some improved internals rather than just changing the color of the side buttons to white) and I'm declaring it equally as shitty.
Quite frankly, the Mighty Mouse is one of the worst things Apple has ever designed. Wired or wireless.
For starters, the wireless version is laggy. It's not smooth at all. The default tracking speed when you pair it for the first time is insultingly slow. No one on earth would want it at this speed. Cranking it all the way up will give you a normal tracking speed, but don't attempt to move the mouse slowly and deliberately, because it's total crap on that level. It's imprecise, jittery, and, well, not to sound like a broken record or anything, total shit.
I noticed the wired Mighty Mouse that came with Katia's new iMac was better about click-detection (you know, the whole problem where the mouse requires you not touch one side when clicking the other for it to properly register a click), but the wireless model is not at all. Same stupid problem. If you finger is even one millimeter over the line of the side button, your clicks drop into a black hole. How the hell does anyone use this piece of shit?
Quickly, now, since I'm screaming out loud and losing my mind: The scrolling ball is a horrible design decision, it doesn't work that well and it gets too dirty too quickly.
Seriously. Apple. Change this. If anyone on earth could build the perfect mouse, I thought it would be you. But this isn't it.
I'm sure there would be many more options open to me if I wasn't left handed, but such is life. In the mean time, I'm going back to my LX7 for now. I'll just occasionally yell when it loses its connection. At least when its connected it works well.