magic mouse

[Mehall]

im on my way to work (browsing on phone) and am going to jump into the apple store on my way to check out the magic mouse.

the point of this thread tho, is to see if anyone knows how long it'll be before the multi-touch element is supported (im assuming the regular mouse function will work fine)

[cartman640]

I was looking at buying one of these today, however after ringing my local apple store, I was informed that there's none in the country :( Seems that we never get any new apple hardware on time or in any great quantity here in New Zealand...

As for support, well if you have a mac then the multitouch should work just fine now so long as your up to date with software updates. If you're planning on using it on a ubuntu system it's anyones guess.

I'd be interested to hear some feedback of what they're actually like to use though.

[Paqman]

They do look pretty cool, but £55 for a mouse is nuts.

[Psyphre]

£55 is indeed alot, though considering its fancy multi-touch business its not too bad.

I'm also very curious how well this works in linux and how long till drivers are made for it. Imagine all the fancy things you could do with it! Like swipe the mouse to rotate the compiz cube or something.

[davim]

The magic mouse works in ubuntu out of the box as a regular 2 button mouse, no scroll no touch.

Not long agou somone started a xorg module for this mouse in github:
http://github.com/cosmonaut/xf86-input-magicmouse

[HappinessNow]

im on my way to work (browsing on phone) and am going to jump into the apple store on my way to check out the magic mouse.

the point of this thread tho, is to see if anyone knows how long it'll be before the multi-touch element is supported (im assuming the regular mouse function will work fine)
That is a very nice mouse, tried one at the University bookstore and was highly impressed. It is nice to see how affordable they are also (I have never spent less then $75 on a mouse; I usually only buy Razer Mice).

[Abhinavhardikar]

But the mouse is only for the people who have hands which do not sweat(My own experiance with the mouse, too bad my hands sweat...).:P

Overall its a good and costly but worth it. It costs around Rs. 3,700 in India($79.2 American Dollar).

Abhinav

[cprofitt]

This is a link to the two mice I would like to get to replace my MX1000

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/349/6135&cl=us,en

[ssj6akshat]

Overall its a good and costly but worth it. It costs around Rs. 3,700 in India
Abhinav

3700 for a mouse?No thanks.

[LowSky]

I rather have this
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/5750&cl=us,en

[davim]

there is a driver for linux now: http://github.com/entrope/linux-magicmouse

:)

[Psyphre]

Thanks for informing us davim. Unfortunately I do not have a magic mouse (waiting for drivers!), does anyone know if those drivers work?

[davim]

Yes, they work, I'm using them now :)