Once the Mighty Mouse update is installed, users can go to their Mac preferences and under mouse controls access a wealth of assignable new attributes. We've included a screenshot of the setup below.

Apple's product page for the Mighty Mouse brags that you can do 360-degree sweeps and scroll at a 45-degree angle, but my experience on three different machines says that's not quite the case.

The Mighty Mouse is nice looking, it has some innovations (like an omnidirectional scroll ball), and it’s a good product overall. It just may not be worth $49 to many Mac users.

But the Mighty Mouse marks the end of 21 years of Apple’s one-button mouse policy. In that way, it’s a little bit like the Berlin Wall coming down. Except, y’know, with mice.

Apple's next mouse is expected to do away with the Mighty Mouse's problematic mechanical roller ball, using expanded touch sensitive housing and "multipoint touch detection mechanism" technologies ...

New Multi-Button Mouse Features Innovative Scroll Ball CUPERTINO, California, August 2, 2005 – Apple today introduced Mighty Mouse, its next generation mouse with several innovative new features that ...

Apple indicates the solution is easy: Take a clean cloth doused in water and hold the Mighty Mouse upside down and “vigorously” rub the ball. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesnt.

While most attention on Mac input is focused on multitouch gestures on new notebooks and iPhone screens, even longtime Mac users may not know exactly how many buttons are on the Mighty Mouse that ...

Breaking with longstanding tradition, Apple Computer has introduced its first multibutton mouse for the Mac. Dubbed Mighty Mouse, the new $49 pointer has a 360-degree scroll wheel and can be ...

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The wireless Mighty Mouse is available immediately through the Apple Store, at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $69.