Apple Mighty Mouse To Be Made Mightier

The Apple Mighty Mouse has been a great mouse, in my opinion. However, it's difficult to understand why a company would do away with one problematic track ball and simply add another somewhere else. Anyone who has used a Mighty Mouse knows that the scroll ball on the top of the mouse is just as annoying as the track balls were in the mice of years ago. They are constantly getting mucked up and require regular cleanings or at least regular work to regain responsiveness or even any ability to scroll up and down on the screen. It's just bizarre that a company supposedly as savvy as Apple would make the effort to make the mouse a laser device in order to alleviate the problem on one hand, and then add the problem back into the equation with the next action.

Well Apple has undoubtedly noticed this as well, and now appears ready to take action on improving the situation by neutering the Mighty Mouse and going only with multi-touch technology and expanding on the touch-sensitive chassis - no more balls. (come on, it's too easy). Though I'll be excited to see this "advancement" you can't help but wonder, "what were they thinking?", by including the mechanical ball on the mouse in the first place. Remember, this was added to the mouse as an evolution of the pro mouse to make it better.

Anyway, it sounds like this could happen sooner, rather than later. Hard to tell if this will be avilable for the holidays or if we'll have to wait until next year to see the evolution of the Mighty Mouse, but things definitely seem under way, here. One thing's for sure, there sure to be a lot of people interested in neutering their Mighty Mice. Okay... I'll stop on that one.