The Logitech V450 Nano Blows Away Apple’s Mighty Mouse
Make no mistake, I love design, I love Apple, I love the majority of Apple’s products, and to a degree I love the Mighty Mouse – but I also hate it. I hate it for the simple reason that Apple managed to coalesce so much wonderful design and knowledge about their experience into such a seemingly simple device, but it just stops working effectively after too short a time period.
I’ve owned many Mighty Mice in both the wireless and wired version and both suffer from the same problems of the scroll ball becoming handicapped in one or two opposite directions, the side buttons are so awkwardly placed at the point of most contact that you can’t help but press them, those side buttons are enabled and tied to power-user specific behaviors such as Exposé, chews through AA batteries like termites through wood, and the mouse sensitivity is not as precise is you would expect.
So while I continue to recommend Apple products vehemently when I find they suit the purpose, I do always question the mouse longevity when I recommend an Apple system.
So to Client #1 (mom and dad) when I received the aggravatingly simple and repetitive question as to why the scroll wheel stopped working again (fifth time), I said enough was enough and upgraded to the Logitech V450 Nano
Regardless, if you’re looking for a replacement for your Mighty Mouse, you just found it.
6 Responses to “The Logitech V450 Nano Blows Away Apple’s Mighty Mouse”
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Plan B: my Logitech V470 mouse looks just like the 450 shown and is a Bluetooth mouse. Sweet as!
Ooooo – I had not seen that at the time I purchased my replacement. How’s the battery life out of curiosity?
I love another Logitech mouse – the V470 Cordless Laser Mouse. It is Bluetooth so you don’t lose a port. I am on my second one now because a client of mine asked if she could keep my first one that I left at her office!
What does the mighty mouse have to do with this? One comes in the box and one is an extra cost premium mouse that is designed for laptops.
I don’t like and don’t use the mighty mouse..its too big for my apelike hands. But this is a meaningless comparison. Also assuming “Apple fanatics” would automatically defend the mighty mouse and every other product Apple produces is trite.
Darwin,
I don’t think it’s unfair to compare a mouse to a mouse – most especially as the Apple bluetooth Mighty Mouse could also be considered a “premium” product. It’s an exceptional piece of design except for the design flaws inherent with it – I understand that you’re part of the choir I’m preaching to. There certainly isn’t a perfect form mouse that can accommodate the children, young adults, women and frying-pan-hand men that use the device, but given that it is one of the two primary physical input devices on a machine and that discomfort can lead to a repetitive stress industry, why not tout a better device? It’s hardly trite given the Apple hockey puck mice of yesteryear and variance in shape, size, and price from other input device manufacturers.
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