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Apple’s Magic Mouse now shipping: seeks mighty revenge
Apple’s Mighty Mouse was one of the most loved and loathed rodents of all time. When it worked, it was a magnificent productivity booster for Mac users. Unfortunately, over time, even after hours and hours of vigorous rubbing, the top-mounted trackball would become so ensnared in hand-jam that owners were left with two options: delicately splay the mouse for a bit of X-acto home surgery… or smash it with a vengeance hammer until justice was served. So maybe now you can understand all the hopeful fuss made over its successor: the Magic Mouse. It’s now shipping to those of you who ordered it separately from its iMac bundle. Snow Leopard (and Leopard) users can even download the software update now so that all those multi-touch and gestural features will be enabled once the bluetooth mouse arrives. Then we’ll see if this is the mouse that rights all those wrongs.
Update: Added 10.5.8 Leopard download link.
Read — Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0 (Snow Leopard)
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Apple’s Magic Mouse now shipping: seeks mighty revenge originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple’s Magic Mouse: one button, multitouch gestures, Bluetooth, four-month battery life
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Apple_s_Magic_Mouse_yes_it_still_has_one_button’; Ready for some more Apple news? Good. Say goodbye to the Mighty Mouse (for reasons beyond those legal entanglements) — the Magic Mouse has arrived. Hate buttons or moving parts? So does Apple, and nothing exemplifies the company’s march towards a buttonless future more than this “two button” laser mouse, which has one button and no scroll wheel — just a multitouch surface (a hard acrylic) across the top. With the Magic Mouse you’re able to do familiar gestures from the Mac trackpad playbook such as two-finger swipes, but you can also do single-finger horizontal and vertical scrolling, complete with a software-based inertia (see a video here). Sorry kids, no pinch zoom. The wireless device boasts a four-month battery life, and will be available today for $69. Full press release is after the break.
Update: Check out our hands-on!
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Apple’s Magic Mouse: one button, multitouch gestures, Bluetooth, four-month battery life originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple Store down for updates, new iMac and more on the way? Update: part numbers!
And here we go: the Apple Store is down, presumably to update it with all the new gear we’re expecting today. New iMacs, plastic MacBooks, multitouch input peripherals, maybe a new Airport Express — we could get everything, we could get nothing. You’ll know as soon as we do.
Update: Kasper from AppleInsider just hit us up with some last-minute leaked part numbers, which reveal a new iMac with a 21.5-inch display, some new mini configs including a server with two hard drives and no optical drive, new AirPort gear, and yes, a new 60W MacBook power supply. See? Dreams do come true. Oh, and that’s apparently just part of the list, so we’ll see what else happens when all this stuff actually hits.
MC207LL/A – K84 BEST BTR- USA
MC238LL/A – MAC MINI 2.26/2x1GB/160/SD/AP/BT-USA
MC239LL/A- MAC MINI 2.53/2x2GB/320GB/SD/AP/BT-USA
MC340LL/A – AIRPORT EXTREME (SIM DUALBAND) – USA
MC343LL/A – TIME CAPSULE 1TB (SIM DUALBAND) -USA
MC344LL/A – TIME CAPSULE 2TB (SIM DUALBAND) – USA
MC408LL/A – MAC MINI 2.53/2x2GB/1TB/NO ODD/AP-BT-USA
MC413LL/A – IMAC 21.5″/3.06/2x2GB/1TB/4670-256MB-USA
MC434LL/A – APPLE VESA MOUNT ADAPTER
MC461LL/A – MACBOOK 60W MAGSAFE POWER ADAPTER – USA
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Apple Store down for updates, new iMac and more on the way? Update: part numbers! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple Store down for updates, new iMac and more on the way?
And here we go: the Apple Store is down, presumably to update it with all the new gear we’re expecting today. New iMacs, plastic MacBooks, multitouch input peripherals, maybe a new Airport Express — we could get everything, we could get nothing. You’ll know as soon as we do.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Peripherals, Software
Apple Store down for updates, new iMac and more on the way? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple to introduce host of new machines, new multitouch input devices tomorrow?
We’re not sure why John Gruber and Dan Lyons are having some sort of megalomaniacal Apple super-pundit standoff, but we’ll sit here and take the spoils: Gruber’s just one-upped Lyons’s earlier vague tease of new Apple gear tomorrow with a pretty specific list of things he’s apparently heard we’ll see, including new iMacs and plastic MacBooks, revved Mac Minis (including one that runs OS X Server), a new multitouch “Magic Mouse” (ha!) and some sort of multitouch desktop trackpad accessory. That pretty much covers every rumor and vague whisper we’ve heard over the past few months, so it’s actually a fairly conservative set of predictions, outside of that trackpad — which itself may or may not be related to this multitouch input device patent from a couple weeks ago. We’ll see what happens tomorrow morning — at this point we’re half expecting a tablet, a pony, and some sort of multitouch waffle maker as well.
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Apple to introduce host of new machines, new multitouch input devices tomorrow? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mighty Mouse trademark awarded to Man & Machine, Mister Trouble can stop hanging around now (updated with analysis)
Trademark registration number 3691042, you just made someone very happy. This week, the US Patent and Trademark Offices awarded Man & Machine with the rights to the name “Mighty Mouse” when it comes to computer mice / “cursor control devices.” So of the two peripherals shown above, it seems the beaut on the right is the one with legal claim to the moniker. Good thing, too, since its claims on “Cool Mouse” and “Really Cool [Mouse]” died just before Christmas last year.
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Apple’s Mighty Mouse Never Lived Up To Its Name. And Now It Can’t.
It seems pretty clear at this point that Apple is getting ready to release a new mouse , probably with some kind of multi-touch capabilities, that is probably attached to some new iMacs. No one is happier about that than me, as I hate the current Mighty Mouse . But it looks like Apple may not have a chance to create a device that lives up to that name this time around, as someone else has won the trademark for the name “Mighty Mouse.”
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Mighty Mouse trademark awarded to Man & Machine, Mister Trouble can stop hanging around now
Trademark registration number 3691042, you just made someone very happy. This week, the US Patent and Trademark Offices awarded Man & Machine with the rights to the name “Mighty Mouse” when it comes to computer mice / “cursor control devices.” So of the two peripherals shown above, it seems the beaut on the right is the one with legal claim to the moniker. Good thing, too, since its claims on “Cool Mouse” and “Really Cool [Mouse]” died just before Christmas last year. We gotta say, it looks as good of a time as any to replace the old point-and-click, eh Apple?
[Via TechCrunch]
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Mighty Mouse trademark awarded to Man & Machine, Mister Trouble can stop hanging around now originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse arrive at the FCC
Well, well, what’s this? A new Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse have arrived at the FCC, and they’ve got new model numbers of A1314 and A1296 — the current wireless keyboard is A1255 and the Mighty Mouse is A1197. That’s pretty much all we know for now, but these keyboard dimensions are also smaller than the current model, which rules out a return of the numeric keypad — sorry to dash your hopes, Excel jockeys. Is this the new keyboard rumored to accompany an iMac refresh? We’ll have to wait to find out — but on a similar note, AppleInsider says Steve Jobs himself is leading the development of this new mouse, featuring some kind of multitouch and potentially housed in an aluminum shell. That would certainly explain those multitouch mouse patents we’ve seen in the past, as well as bring the desktop mousing experience in line with the multitouch action found on the MacBooks — AI says the new mice somehow enable iPhone-style kinetic scrolling, which would definitely be interesting. So… you want to maybe schedule an event to launch all this stuff, Steve?
Update: And… Apple’s managed to yank the images out of the FCC filings, which is about as fast as we’ve ever seen that happen.
Update 2: Revised images have been posted, carefully cropped to show only the relevant FCC labeling — although model numbers remain. This is absolutely the fastest we’ve ever seen the FCC database change, it’s rather impressive.
Update 3: AppleInsider’s revised their post to say an aluminum mouse is just speculation, so this thing could be plastic after all.
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New Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse arrive at the FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mighty Mouse 2: Apple planning to upgrade its ill-fated mouse?
I wanted to like the Mighty Mouse, Apple’s no-button mouse with tiny little ball on top. I was totally ready to make it my mouse of choice for years to come. We’d grow old together. We’d have children.
Sadly, the Mighty Mouse was a mess. The ball got crudded up fairly easily and it stopped tracking and ended up in the big pile of junk in my office.
But that’s about to change.
Update: New FCC documents seem to agree.
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