lions and tigers and... mice?

TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
edited August 2005 in Hardware
apparently, Apple has designed a new mouse to get along with Tiger...

behold, THE MIGHTY MOUSE :eek:

some key "unique features":
1) At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger.
2) Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze.

I could be wrong, but doesn't the Logitech MX1000 have all of this functionality and more? whats so revolutionary about this Mighty Mouse?

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    nothing. What's revolutionary about it is that apple did it, so they think it's revolutionary :rolleyes:

    It has a built in speaker to make "clicking" noises. That is kinda dumb.
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Exactly, Prime. Their customers will be dupped into thinking that they're the only ones to have something like it as well.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited August 2005
    I missed the part about the built-in speaker. I guess that's something I've never seen before, maybe that's the revolutionary part :rolleyes:
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Holy copyright violation, Batman!
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited August 2005
    thats weird.. how can they steal Mighty Mouse's name? :scratch:

    My flippin SISTER has a mx1000.. that thing pwns :cool:
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Look, they took a hotstick from a laptop circa 1996 and stuck it on an iMac mouse! Not only is it revolutionary but it's "old school" too. Heck, it's almost retro or vintage. My 1976 microwave has touchmatic buttons too! That speaker is pretty cool though. I always had a hard time hearing the mouse click in coming from my desk speakers so having a speaker THAT GETS COVERED BY MY HAND is a great addition.

    I'd take my Bluetooth Intellimouse any day. It does 90 percent of what that thing does with the added benefit of my hand not cramping up due to the retarded, albiet color coordinated, design.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited August 2005
    Looks like they took the ball out of the bottom and stuck it on the top.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited August 2005
    Well it IS buttonless guys. They went from a 1 button mouse, to a 0 button mouse, such a transition could be construed as a revolution. :-/
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    bothered wrote:
    Looks like they took the ball out of the bottom and stuck it on the top.
    I say it has no balls! ;D
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Apple Spin Doctors wrote:
    Apple engineers added force-sensing buttons on either side of Mighty Mouse...
    A button that senses... force? Usually buttons sense smell, right? :rolleyes:
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Maybe this mouse is Jedi.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited August 2005
    I hate it. its just like the stupid iPod controls they made :rolleyes:
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Look on the bright side, if it gives a sound that means there must be a sound file that you can change. So, if your friend owns one of these, you can overwrite it with a file that will fill the room with the sounds of low grade pornography.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited August 2005
    but the sound comes out of the mouse, right? I would think the sound file is stored in the mouse itself.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Which means you just hook up some form of low-level compiler to the mouse's traces and hack the **** out of it at the hardware level.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited August 2005
    oh ok
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Nomad wrote:
    Exactly, Prime. Their customers will be dupped into thinking that they're the only ones to have something like it as well.

    They aren't really duped into anything, it's just that the average Apple customer is too stupid to realise anything else... which, coincidentally, is normally why these people own an Apple in the first place. :rolleyes2
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    hey now...... :scratch:
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Prime, I don't think Enverex expects you to understand. As a Mac owner, you're obviously too stupid to comprehend ;)
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    I'm waiting for Apple to build an i-Bicycle. It will have wooden wheels with wooden spokes. Apple will say it has aesthetic appeal, and that wood is longer lasting and more reliable than rubber. It will be called "revolutionary". The MAC faithful will flock to it. They will weep at its beautiful styling.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited August 2005
    The mouse has a strikingly disgusting resemblence to a SPERM CELL :wtf:
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    I was thinking more along the lines of "bar of soap" which would explain the handy cable on the end so it could be secured and not dropped.
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