Prefer it or not, the Apple Magic Mouse is the mouse that each one others must sq. as much as within the battle to seek out one of the best 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 purchase as a separate on the Apple Retailer (in black or white).
Apple’s legendary design expertise typically appear to abandon it in relation 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 remains to be marred by one horrible design resolution that actually leaves you questioning “What have been they considering?”.
To be honest, the Magic Mouse is smooth and chic, the way in which an Apple product ought to be. There aren’t any old school buttons or scroll-wheels to spoil the mouse’s streamlined design, as the whole high multi-touch floor panel acts like a small, touch-sensitive trackpad. It really works very 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 high is silent in that regard.
The low-profile design received’t go well with individuals with bigger fingers, however the contact controls do work very properly, permitting you to scroll each horizontally and vertically just by flicking your finger within the required path.
You may arrange a secondary button, fairly than accept the all-over click on, on both facet 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 may management gestures, similar 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 can even activate Pointer Acceleration for quicker or extra exact mouse actions.
The button-free design additionally implies that the Magic Mouse is appropriate for each left- and right-handed customers—not like the Logitech MX Grasp 3S mouse reviewed under.
The rechargeable battery lasts for less than a couple of month at a time—which might be nice if it weren’t for one factor…
Bizarrely, Apple left the charging port on the underside of the mouse–which implies which you could’t use the mouse whereas it’s charging, as it’s important to flip it over on to its facet with the intention to insert the cable. It’s a mind-bogglingly dangerous design and explains why rivals similar to Logitech dominate the marketplace for Mac mice and keyboards.
Additionally, the mouse nonetheless has a Lightning connector for charging the interior battery, which is ok in the event you’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 commonplace 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 costs extra for colour decisions.
