iBuz: Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse

At first sight, the Mighty Mouse looks beautiful. Beautiful symmetry not just from left to right but also from top to bottom; but then again it is an apple product. It's beautifully curved, almost like a sleek pebble smoothed to perfection. Just a small protrusion for the 'scroll wheel' and subtle grey areas at the side that act as a fourth mouse button with extreme functionality.

So it can be scary at first. There are no apparent buttons anywhere, so you begin think whether or not you got a piece of art or a functional mouse feedback. Surprisingly you get both with the Mighty Mouse. When you press where the left or right button should be the whole mouse tilts forward slightly and clicks, so you feel like you've actually pressed a button. More importantly, it distinguishes correctly between left, right and even center button presses, even though the actual motion of the mouse is the same in each case.

It makes a great travel mouse to carry with your laptop on business trips. No cable to worry about and everyone will envy it.

On the down side: it takes annoyingly long to sync with your Mac. When you have a few seconds to check your email, 30 seconds is too long to wait. It's fine if you've just put your Mac to sleep, but if you've rebooted, or if you've broken the connection by using your lap MacBook in a different room, it can take a slightly too long to reconnect.

One useful feature are the grey buttons on the side act as a fourth mouse button. I've mapped them to bring up the task switcher which is really useful for multitasking without using the keyboard. But it's more than you want to use on a regular basis while using your MacBook. But there's no audible click to indicate that you've pressed hard enough, which can turn into a guessing game.

Anyway, overall a great product. I find myself surfing the web pointlessly just, so I can enjoy the 360 degree scroll on the Mighty Mouse (good for scrolling sideways in wide windows eg. getting to the more obscure information about your tracks in the main iTunes window) and the satisfying motion as you press the buttons.