Apple has debuted it's new wireless mouse with a much deserved update - multi-touch technology for navigation. Featuring a solid acrylic surface, the new Magic Mouse replaces the Mighty Mouse, Apple's previous wireless with a trackball.
Apple's love with multi-touch is fairly known and is already featured in iPhones, iPod Touches and Trackpads of the MacBooks. The new wireless Magic Mouse that has no buttons and no trackball is ambidextrous.
Magic Mouse carries a "seamless" multi-touch surface that covers its top area and is touted as the world's first multi-touch mouse. There's no need to worry about cords since the Magic Mouse connects to any Bluetooth enabled Mac machine wirelessly. Acting as an advanced point-and-click mouse, users can click as well as double click by tapping a finger once or twice on the top surface. Also, enabling the secondary click in System Preferences will make it function as a two-button mouse.
Multi-touch obsession takes the next step with Magic Mouse that supports finger gestures to navigate on the display. For instance, scrolling in any direction requires simply using one finger on the mouse's top surface. Magic mouse also supports "360 degree scrolling" - smooth up/down and left/right scrolling within a window, just like an iPhone and MacBook trackpads. Apple boasts of a chip that senses finger gestures and responds accordingly.
The Magic Mouse is certainly clever, but the question remains as to how well it will work in day-to-day usage. Will the multi-touch features enhance the desktop experience, or will they annoy users and get in the way?
Magic Mouse comes with new iMacs and also sells separately for $69 CDN today.
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