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Magic Mouse 
The Magic MouseManufacturer Apple Release date October 20, 2009 Connectivity Bluetooth Predecessor Apple Mighty Mouse Related articles Apple Keyboard
Apple Wireless KeyboardThe Magic Mouse is a multi-touch mouse manufactured and sold by Apple,[1] and it was announced and sold for the first time on October 20, 2009.[2] The Magic Mouse is the first consumer mouse to have multi-touch capabilities.[1] Taking after the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and multi-touch trackpads, the Magic Mouse allows the use of gestures such as swiping and scrolling across the top surface of the mouse to interact with desktop computers. It connects via Bluetooth and runs on two AA batteries.
The mouse requires at least Mac OS X 10.5.8. It can be configured as a two-buttoned left-handed or right-handed mouse, but the default is a single button. It uses laser tracking for increased pointer accuracy over previous generation Apple mice.[3] Since its release, it has been included along with a wireless keyboard with the 2009 generation of iMacs, and with a wired keyboard with the 2010 Mac Pro workstations. It can also be purchased separately.
Initial reception to the Magic Mouse was mixed, with positive reactions to its scrolling functions[4] but negative reactions to its inability to middle click (without any additional software), or trigger Exposé, Dashboard or Spaces (features offered by its predecessor).[5] Many of those features can be enabled on the Magic Mouse with the use of third party tools.[6]
Underside of the Magic Mouse
In 2009, a couple of Mac news sites reported that the Magic Mouse had issues with maintaining a stable connection to Mac Pro workstations.[7]
Contents
Gestures
Not all gestures are supported on all operating systems:
- Click
- Two-button click
- 360°-scroll
- Screen zoom
- Screen pan
- Two-finger swipe
- One finger swipe
- Two-finger double tap
- One-finger double tap
By using third party software, gestures can be customized and added.[6]
Inertia scrolling is said to be available in Snow Leopard only after installing a software update, but it could also be enabled in Leopard with a terminal command.
Operating system support
- Mac OS X v10.5.8, v10.6.1 or later with Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0. This update is essential for the Magic Mouse to work.
- Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista using Boot Camp tools under Mac OS X. To work with Windows 7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard is required as the latest drivers are available only with a version of Boot Camp that is installable on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
- Extracted from Boot Camp native Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 drivers, 32-bit and 64-bit[8] (not supported by Apple).
- Linux as of kernel 2.6.34-rc1[9]
See also
- Apple Mouse
- Apple Keyboard
- Apple Magic Trackpad
References
- ^ a b "Magic Mouse". Apple. http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ^ Topolsky, Joshua (October 20, 2009). "Apple's Magic Mouse: one button, multitouch gestures, Bluetooth, four-month battery life". Engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/apples-magic-mouse-multitouch-gestures-bluetooth-four-month/. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ^ "Magic Mouse". Apple. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB829LL/A. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ^ Chen, Jason (October 21, 2009). "Apple Magic Mouse Review". Gizmodo. http://gizmodo.com/5386202/apple-magic-mouse-review. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ^ Loyola, Roman (October 21, 2009). "First Look: Apple Magic Mouse". Macworld. http://www.macworld.com/article/143410/2009/10/magic_mouse.html. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
- ^ a b "Add more gestures to Magic Mouse". Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlkte1aOOw. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
- ^ "Bugs & Fixes: Magic Mouse loses its way". http://www.macworld.com/article/143702/2009/11/magicmouse.html.
- ^ "Get Apple’s MultiTouch Magic Mouse To Play Nice on Windows". UNEASYsilence. http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2009/11/14588/. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
- ^ "HID Changes for 2.6.34 – HID: add a device driver for the Apple Magic Mouse". lkml. http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/25/247. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
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