Prefer it or not, the Apple Magic Mouse is the mouse that every one others should sq. as much as within the battle to search out the most effective 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 one in all solely two mice you should buy as a separate on the Apple Retailer (in black or white).
The Magic Mouse is modern and stylish, the way in which an Apple product ought to be. There are not any old style 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 rather 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 received’t swimsuit folks with bigger fingers, however the contact controls do work very properly, permitting you to scroll each horizontally and vertically just by flicking your finger within the required route.
You possibly can arrange a secondary button, relatively than accept the all-over click on, on both aspect 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, equivalent to zooming and switching between purposes and pages, through the use of the Mouse Preferences panel on the Mac. Double-tap with two fingers to launch the Mac’s Mission Management. In Settings you may as well 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—not like the Logitech MX Grasp 3S mouse reviewed beneath.
The rechargeable battery lasts for under a few month at a time—which might be high quality 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 suggests which you could’t use the mouse whereas it’s charging, as it’s important to flip it over on to its aspect so as 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 fees extra for shade selections.
