Macally iSweet USB Mouse

Rating:
Summary: A very good mouse, but not the best choice
Review: I love Macs--I am a Mac user for life for the main reason that PCs just don't even come close to the same level of quality and interface control that a Mac has. My Apple Pro Mouse broke (not a defect, I broke it), and I wasn't about to shell out $50 for a new one. What I did instead was research Macally and got a much better mouse for much less money.

The mouse has changable faceplates (just like a cell phone)!! While this may not seem to useful to PC users, who are stuck using ugly computers so the mouse doesn't matter, this is great for anyone using an iMac or and iBook, because you can pick whatever faceplate matches your beautiful computer (another problem I had with the replacement Apple Pro Mouse was that they discontinued the black mouse that matched my black Apple Pro Keyboard--they only make the Apple Pro Mouse and Keyboard in white now).

It is an optical mouse just as the Apple Pro Mouse is, which is such a vast improvement over the track ball design that its not funny (yeah--no more picking clogged dog hair out of the mouse!)

The one problem I have is that Apple still insists on the whole single button mouse thing, and this mouse does the same thing! Macally does make another mouse that is even better than this one and worth the $5 extra. The Macally Scroll Mouse still comes with multiple colored faceplates, but is better because it has the two button setup, which (sorry Apple) is just better. It is better for gaming and it is better for contextual menus.

The Macally Scroll Mouse also has a scroll wheel, which I had always thought was a dumb idea until I had one. It is amazing how fast you get used to using the scroll wheel for word processing and web surfing, to point and click quickly without using the window scroll bar.

I have two, and I can tell you that it works great both as a replacement mouse for my eMac and as a alternative to the touchpad on my iBook. All of these facts mean two things. First, Apple should make the Pro Mouse more like the Macally Scroll Mouse. Second, until they do change, you should switch to the Macally Scroll Mouse.