Apple Mighty Mouse

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The Mighty Mouse (codenamed 'Houdini') is the first multi-button mouse manufactured and sold by Apple Computer. It was announced and sold for the first time on August 2, 2005. Prior to the Mighty Mouse, Apple had sold only one-button mice, starting with the Apple Lisa 22 years earlier. (At the time of introduction, Apple continued to ship its entire line of computers with single-button mice, finally including the Mighty Mouse with the revision of the iMac on October 12, 2005.) The introduction of the new mouse came eight weeks after the announcement of Apple transitioning its Macintosh line of computers to Intel microprocessors.

The name of the mouse is used under license from Viacom, owner of the Mighty Mouse cartoon series, though this is likely precautionary since it is not a similar product.

The Mighty Mouse is made of white plastic — there’s no see-through top surface like on the previous Apple Pro Mouse — with an embossed Apple logo on the mouse's face. The USB mouse features a scroll ball as opposed to a scroll wheel, enabling users to scroll in all directions. Squeezable buttons on the side are programmable to launch applications or trigger features of the Apple operating system, such as Dashboard and Exposé. These two indentations are not separately programmable; Apple’s software indicates that they’re meant to be used together as a single button. Like previous Apple mice, Mighty Mouse uses optical technology to detect mouse movements.

This mouse itself is easily operable because its two buttons act like one and use the same plastic shell. Usually, a user will use two fingers to left click and then remove the left finger for right-clicking. By default, Mac OS X will be configured to not detect a right-click to avoid confusing beginners.

The mouse is also compatible with PCs running Microsoft Windows without additional drivers (no additional drivers are currently available). However, some software functionality, such as horizontal scrolling, may not be available.

At the Apple Store website, Mighty Mouse costs $49 in the US, £35 in the UK, €55 in the Eurozone, and ¥5670 in Japan.

As of 12 October 2005, the Mighty Mouse is a standard accessory with the iMac G5, and as of 19 October 2005, with the PowerMac G5 line.

Features

Touch-sensitive top shell
360-degree clickable scroll ball
Force-sensing side "squeeze" buttons
Optical tracking
Compatible with Macintosh computers and PCs
Programmable functions for the four buttons
Small speaker to provide aural feedback when "squeezing" and scrolling the mouse