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I tried repeatedly to use a "magic mouse" for work. I think if your UI only needs one mouse button and an occasionally inconsistent mouse wheel, you'd be fine. It has a long battery life, a not bad weight and works consistently in just web browsers.

Given that none of that has anything to do with my workflow usually, I don't use one anymore.




> if your UI only needs one mouse button

Have you tried adjusting the Mouse settings? You can certainly enable right-click.

The multitouch gestures + inertial scrolling is actually quite magical compared to a dumb fixed-offset scrollwheel, but the mouse itself is not the most ergonomic.


Scrolling up and down works ok, but anything else feels like a fast track to RSI to me, especially any sideways scrolling movements.


yeah. I'm sorry to say but "it doesn't work for me". Part of it may be that my hands are too large for the sensitivity needed. Besides, I work often enough with software that requires 3+ mouse buttons (Unix!) that any restricted or inconsistently touchy interface (literally in this case) goes.




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