» Mighty Mouse Trackball Woes

I started playing with the new Mighty Mouse a couple of weeks ago and really like it. Having a right-click button again is so much easier than the whole CMD-click. I was lost without it the first month I got my PowerBook. I’ve seen some complaining about the mouse not having actual buttons and some users not always getting the intended click. If you must look at the mouse to pick which button to push, you have other issues besides a mouse.

Only slightly less important on the functionality scale is the scroll ball. I am a command line geek, but occasionally I llike to take a break and step away from the keyboard, put my feet up and surf or read long passages. With the scroll ball, this is once again possible.

One problem… after a few weeks of heavy usage, the scroll ball has stopped working in one direction or another, The first time I fixed it with a little low tech banging of the mouse on the desk. Last night, this just was not doing it. Having just moved into a new place and not having time to put everything in its place, my desk is littered with tech miscellanea. An old bottle of compressed air for dusting out PC cases was nearby. Duh! Needless to say, a few quick squirts of air through the ball opening solved the problem.

I found other complaints on this same issue this morning. Several people had received replacement mice from Apple to fix the problem. One user was even on his third replacement. Hopefully Apple will take a clue and reengineer the scroll button to be a little more resistent to dust (or perhaps crumbs).

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