When the MacBook Air debuted, they added three-finger swiping and four-finger tabbing and Expose. At first they introduced the second finger for left click, and the double-finger for scrolling. The multi-touch trackpads in the MacBooks are another example. I mentioned so far, above, because I have a suspicion Apple is doing what they did with iMovie '08 here - introducing something new and deliberately keeping it simple to start. I have no problem with doing it (mad iPhone-derived skillz, yo!) but a friend who tried it with me found it difficult to annoying. The "just okay" defines the two-finger sideways swipe, currently only implemented in Safari to go back and forth within a tabs history (I'd prefer switching tabs), and iPhoto to cycle through images. Sadly, there's no elastic banding like the iPhone in Mac OS X. In an especially nice touch, System Preferences lets you turn on (or off) momentum based scrolling, similar to how the iPhone flicks fast at the beginning, then slows to a stop. Say goodbye gunked-up physical scroll wheel or ball, evolution has selected you for extinction. The scrolling, where you move a single finger around to pan left-to-right, up-and-down, and basically any direction is great. To back up a moment, like the iPhone, the surface of the Magic Mouse is capacitive (see the teardown for details) so it can detect multiple finger actions and execute whatever behavior those actions represent. The bottom has a second Apple logo, along the laser and an on/off switch you can toggle to save battery power if you're going to be away for a long time. From that purely old-school point-and-click perspective, Magic Mouse is a big improvement. When setup to do so in System Preferences, it also detects the right (or left if you're right handed) second mouse click much, much better than the Mighty Mouse ever did (no doubt because the capacitive technology "knows" where you're clicking). Like the Mighty Mouse, the entire upper shell is one giant button (with an Apple logo on it this time), but the Magic Mouse's "click" feels much better and more satisfying. No doubt that's to make space for the multi-touch gestures, but it will take some getting used to. The angle of the edges feels great in the hand, but the lack of a higher, rounder top leaves your palm kind of empty. The weight feels good but the profile isn't as high. It's alright, but it's not the smoothest experience. Compared to the previous Mighty Mouse (a name which is now trademarked by another company), the Magic Mouse feels about the same on the table.
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