I share my experience with my first Magic Mouse 2 after 3 weeks using it:
Pros:
#1 Internal battery so there is no need to change it
#2 Cable is provided to charge the mouse
#3 Gestures are supported on this mouse so once you master them there is no need to use the Macbook's trackpad, a productivity boost once all the gestures are learned
#4 Is very portable
Cons:
#1 $76 for a mouse? Yes, it is really expensive and I bought it to experience it. Will recommend buying it? Probably only if you want to spend a lot of money
#2 Precision: mouse's DPI is 1300, really sucks here as most current mouses have more than 10.000 and can be dynamically set. Also if you need to work with several monitors, this means you need to move your hand a lot to have the cursor moved.
#3 Bluetooth connection lost is constant on the Macbook... For a $76 device !!! ... This kind of issues are expected only on cheap devices.
#4 Ergonomics: this is a mouse you won't want to hold for several hours. I'm a software developer so I'm face to face with a computer at least 8h per day and trust me, I keep switching to the trackpad constantly because of this mouse.
Hope you find this short review useful, I'll love to see a more decent version of this device in the future as it's ok if we were in 2012, but for 2018 it is lacking.
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Stylish, functional, expensive Carpal Tunnel device
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018
It's beautiful, works out of the box (just like you'd expect Apple products to work) and brings a lot of handy features. You can read all about that from the other 5-star reviews, internet so I won't repeat any of that here.This review is solely about what doesn't work - ergonomics. The design is not palm friendly and a few mins of usage will bring you pain as no other mouse has. To fix this, you need to make some additional investments - in the form of widening grips ASIN:B01MT7EN0F and a foam pad (google for Magic Mouse Fixed) that adds the palm-friendly contour to the mouse (see attached screenshot). I just got my foam but found it wasn't sufficient - you need the widening grips too.Another feature that is highly annoying is that the back of the mouse also acts as a touchpad, so every time you try to click a link and your finger touches the surface, the web page will scroll a little. This little jump will make you miss the link as you need to move the mouse cursor to the new point or undo the scroll. As workarounds, you can lower tracking sensitivity or not use the touchpad feature at all - at which point you wasted 100 bucks for a glorified dumb mouse. The foam and the widening grips can alleviate this issue as they prevent the contact from happening.So go ahead and spend 100 bucks on a stylish mouse, then spend around 30 bucks more in fixing it and you'll have the best mouse in the world. Or you can save those 100 bucks, and use the extra bucks to buy another Bluetooth mouse that will be little less smooth and not so sexy looking but will work just fine and not give you Carpal Tunnel.
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018
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Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018
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Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018
This review is solely about what doesn't work - ergonomics. The design is not palm friendly and a few mins of usage will bring you pain as no other mouse has. To fix this, you need to make some additional investments - in the form of widening grips ASIN:B01MT7EN0F and a foam pad (google for Magic Mouse Fixed) that adds the palm-friendly contour to the mouse (see attached screenshot). I just got my foam but found it wasn't sufficient - you need the widening grips too.
Another feature that is highly annoying is that the back of the mouse also acts as a touchpad, so every time you try to click a link and your finger touches the surface, the web page will scroll a little. This little jump will make you miss the link as you need to move the mouse cursor to the new point or undo the scroll. As workarounds, you can lower tracking sensitivity or not use the touchpad feature at all - at which point you wasted 100 bucks for a glorified dumb mouse. The foam and the widening grips can alleviate this issue as they prevent the contact from happening.
So go ahead and spend 100 bucks on a stylish mouse, then spend around 30 bucks more in fixing it and you'll have the best mouse in the world. Or you can save those 100 bucks, and use the extra bucks to buy another Bluetooth mouse that will be little less smooth and not so sexy looking but will work just fine and not give you Carpal Tunnel.
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Stylish, functional, expensive Carpal Tunnel device
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018
It's beautiful, works out of the box (just like you'd expect Apple products to work) and brings a lot of handy features. You can read all about that from the other 5-star reviews, internet so I won't repeat any of that here.Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018
This review is solely about what doesn't work - ergonomics. The design is not palm friendly and a few mins of usage will bring you pain as no other mouse has. To fix this, you need to make some additional investments - in the form of widening grips ASIN:B01MT7EN0F and a foam pad (google for Magic Mouse Fixed) that adds the palm-friendly contour to the mouse (see attached screenshot). I just got my foam but found it wasn't sufficient - you need the widening grips too.
Another feature that is highly annoying is that the back of the mouse also acts as a touchpad, so every time you try to click a link and your finger touches the surface, the web page will scroll a little. This little jump will make you miss the link as you need to move the mouse cursor to the new point or undo the scroll. As workarounds, you can lower tracking sensitivity or not use the touchpad feature at all - at which point you wasted 100 bucks for a glorified dumb mouse. The foam and the widening grips can alleviate this issue as they prevent the contact from happening.
So go ahead and spend 100 bucks on a stylish mouse, then spend around 30 bucks more in fixing it and you'll have the best mouse in the world. Or you can save those 100 bucks, and use the extra bucks to buy another Bluetooth mouse that will be little less smooth and not so sexy looking but will work just fine and not give you Carpal Tunnel.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017
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Dan
Worst mouse ever.
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Stunning mouse
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Mouse é satisfatório, mas pelo preço esperava um pouco mais!
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Rey
Recomendado solo para usar en apple
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