Prefer it or not, the Apple Magic Mouse is the mouse that each one others must sq. as much as within the battle to search 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 abilities usually appear to abandon it in terms of 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 basically leaves you questioning “What have been they pondering?”.
To be truthful, the Magic Mouse is modern and chic, the way in which an Apple product ought to be. There are not any old style 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 go well with individuals with bigger fingers, however the contact controls do work very nicely, permitting you to scroll each horizontally and vertically just by flicking your finger within the required path.
You possibly can arrange a secondary button, quite than accept the all-over click on, on both facet inside 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, akin to zooming and switching between functions 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 may as well activate Pointer Acceleration for sooner or extra exact mouse actions.
The button-free design additionally implies that the Magic Mouse is appropriate for each left- and right-handed customers—in contrast to the Logitech MX Grasp 3S mouse reviewed under.
The rechargeable battery lasts for less than a few 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 you could’t use the mouse whereas it’s charging, as you need to flip it over on to its facet with the intention to insert the cable. It’s a mind-bogglingly unhealthy design and explains why rivals akin 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 ok should 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 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 prices extra for colour decisions.
