Prefer it or not, the Apple Magic Mouse is the mouse that every one others must sq. as much as within the battle to seek out the perfect mouse for Mac customers. Unchanged since 2015 and in actuality little modified since 2009, the Magic Mouse is what Apple ships with each iMac (in seven accented colours) and Mac Professional (black) and is the one mouse you should buy as a separate on the Apple Retailer (in black or white).
Apple’s legendary design expertise typically appear to abandon it relating to mice and keyboards. We’re sufficiently old to recollect the daft, round ‘hockey-puck’ mouse from 1998 and, years later, the most recent model of the Magic Mouse continues to be marred by one horrible design resolution that actually leaves you questioning “What have been they considering?”.
To be truthful, the Magic Mouse is glossy and chic, the best way an Apple product must be. There aren’t any old school buttons or scroll-wheels to spoil the mouse’s streamlined design, as your complete prime multi-touch floor panel acts like a small, touch-sensitive trackpad. It really works rather well and cleverly combines the fluidity of a trackpad with the physicality of a mouse.
Some mice have scroll wheels that may be noisy, however the Apple Magic Mouse’s trackpad prime is silent in that regard.
The low-profile design gained’t swimsuit folks with bigger arms, however the contact controls do work very properly, permitting you to scroll each horizontally and vertically just by flicking your finger within the required route.
You possibly can arrange a secondary button, moderately than accept the all-over click on, on both aspect throughout the Mouse tab in your Mac’s System Settings.
The place the Magic Mouse stands out of the nest of Mac mice, is gestures. You possibly can management gestures, comparable to zooming and switching between purposes and pages, by utilizing the Mouse Preferences panel on the Mac. Double-tap with two fingers to launch the Mac’s Mission Management. In Settings you too can activate Pointer Acceleration for quicker or extra exact mouse actions.
The button-free design additionally signifies that the Magic Mouse is appropriate for each left- and right-handed customers—in contrast to the Logitech MX Grasp 3S mouse reviewed beneath.
The rechargeable battery lasts for less than a couple of month at a time—which might be effective if it weren’t for one factor…
Bizarrely, Apple left the charging port on the underside of the mouse–which suggests that you may’t use the mouse whereas it’s charging, as it’s a must to flip it over on to its aspect with a view to insert the cable. It’s a mind-bogglingly dangerous design and explains why rivals comparable to Logitech dominate the marketplace for Mac mice and keyboards.
Additionally, the mouse nonetheless has a Lightning connector for charging the inner battery, which is okay for those who’re an pre-iPhone 15 person used to Apple’s proprietary cable. Apple actually ought to get spherical to switching all its merchandise to the now customary USB-C connector.
Apple additionally sells a black model of the Magic Mouse for an additional $20/£20, which is a bit cheeky as no different mouse producer fees extra for colour selections.