Hot news, to be sure.
My initial impressions:
1. I don’t know how I will ever be able to travel with all this additional weight. I may need to jettison something from my laptop bag to compensate, like the two AA batteries I keep in there for whatever reason may arise.
1. Scrollball is as responsive as the original. That is a good thing. I expect that, as with the original, I will need to harshly clean this one with baby wipes every two weeks to keep it functioning. That, or stop picking my nose and then immediately using the mouse/scrollball.
1. Side-buttons are much tighter than the original. I’ve read (and a friend has mentioned) that the side-buttons on their wired MM were so tight as to essentially be unusable[1], but mine were actually so responsive they tended to go off at times I didn’t want them to. Maybe this is what they’ve been referring to, or maybe it’s just newness.[2] Or maybe they’re jerks.
1. The tracking in general was, until a few minutes ago, awful. Not when compared to Mighty Mouse v.Wired, but in general… as in, to the point of near-unusability. I went into photoshop in order to draw a “straight” line I could paste in here (expecting it to turn out as a sawtooth sine wave), but… then everything started working. Stay tuned, I guess.
1. Urgh – the retuuuuuuurrrrrrnnnn of blluuuuuuuuuetoooooooth keeeeeeyyboaaaarrrddd goingggggg ouuuuut toooo lunnnnnnnch occasionallyyyyyyyyyyy. I guess one wireless mighty mouse is, indeed, one wireless device too many in the pan.
[1] Unless willing to crush/destroy the mouse in the process, which is a funny, sort of corner case of “use”, I guess.
[2] Or maybe said friend, who will be nameless here as to avoid shaming, has the hands of a four year old girl-child
