Prefer it or not, the Apple Magic Mouse is the mouse that every one others must sq. as much as within the battle to search out one of the best mouse for Mac customers. Unchanged since 2015 (apart from an replace to USB-C from Lightning in 2024) 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 buy as a separate on the Apple Retailer (in black or white).
The Magic Mouse is smooth and stylish, the best way an Apple product must be. There aren’t any old school buttons or scroll-wheels to spoil the mouse’s streamlined design, as the whole high multi-touch floor panel acts like a small, touch-sensitive trackpad. It really works very 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 high 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 course.
You possibly can arrange a secondary button, reasonably 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, comparable 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 also activate Pointer Acceleration for quicker 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 under a few month at a time—which might be nice if it weren’t for one factor…
Apple did lastly get round to switching the Lightning connector to a USB-C connector for charging the inner battery, however it’s nonetheless on the bottom of the mouse, which implies you can’t use the mouse whereas it’s charging, as you need to flip it over on to its facet in an effort to insert the cable.
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 expenses extra for coloration decisions.
