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Review: Apple Magic Trackpad a Futile Gesture

Charles Jade — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:47:40 +0000

A sleek representation in aluminum, plastic, and glass, plus 80 percent more multitouch by area than a MacBook trackpad, what's not to like about the Magic Trackpad? Everything that really matters. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend it.

Review: Apple Magic Trackpad a Futile Gesture

Charles Jade — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:47:40 +0000

Review: Apple Magic Trackpad a Futile Gesture

Charles Jade — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:47:40 +0000

Review: Apple Magic Trackpad a Futile Gesture

Charles Jade — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:47:40 +0000

Review: Apple Magic Trackpad a Futile Gesture

Charles Jade — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:47:40 +0000

Apple and the Future of Computer Mice

Adam Jackson — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:50 +0000

Apple's hatred of buttons and love of touch that began as early as 2003 with the 3rd generation iPod and continued with iPhone, iPad and multitouch trackpads should have clued us in that the mouse wouldn't be here forever.

R.I.P. Computer Mouse? Not So Fast

Charles Moore — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:06:59 +0000

Ackerman thinks that something being largely overlooked amidst the tsunami of iPad hype is what he deems its biggest potential "achievement" -- that Apple's touchscreen quasi-PC might have finally struck a fatal blow to the longstanding standard of computer input devices, the computer mouse.

Magic Sales for a Not-So-Magic Mouse

Liam Cassidy — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:00:50 +0000

Holiday spending has seen sales of Apple’s Magic Mouse soar. According to a report by NPD and covered today by AppleInsider, last month saw a twofold increase in Apple’s share of domestic mice sales. By the end of November, Apple had captured 10 percent of the market. NPD analyst Stephen Baker told AppleInsider: Sales in November were [...]

Hands-on with the Magic Mouse

Joachim Bean — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Peripherals, Features, Bluetooth, Reviews

Well, I got my Magic Mouse a few days ago, and I've been using it for my everyday tasks for a few days (and I'm still using it), and here are my impressions.

Packaging:

This packaging is clear, showing the actual Magic Mouse, just like the packaging that Apple has been using recently for the iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod touch and accessories.

Downloading the update:

As we posted earlier, you'll want to to download the Wireless Mouse Update to enable the new features of the Magic Mouse, which is available for Snow Leopard and Leopard.

Set Up:

Once you've installed the Wireless Mouse Update, you'll want to go to the Mouse Preference Pane in System Preferences and click the new "Set Up Bluetooth Mouse..." button. You no longer have to use the Bluetooth Setup Assistant to pair, which makes it a little simpler. It will then search for your Magic Mouse, and make sure it's turned on, which is done by a switch on the bottom of the Magic Mouse. Once it's paired, you'll be all ready to use your Magic Mouse.

Read on below to see the how it was using the Magic Mouse....

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TUAW Hands-on with the Magic Mouse originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Apple tablet that wasn’t

Mike Schramm — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Hardware, Portables, Odds and ends

TechCrunch has posted pictures of what they're calling an "unlaunched Apple tablet." In 1990, as the story goes, Apple was supposedly working on a pen-based touchscreen tablet called the Pen Mac that was actually extremely small for the time -- just about an inch thick, with a screen the same size as a Mac Portable. They were bringing a few different companies in on the deal, and apparently it worked well -- ran a full Mac OS, used a pen to control or let you plug in a mouse and keyboard, and there was even a smaller version called the PenLite (bulky by today's standards, but remember that this is 20 years ago now).

So why weren't we all using tablet computers 20 years ago? TechCrunch blames John Sculley, who apparently thought the tablet idea was out, and the PDA idea was in, and we ended up with the Newton instead. I won't second guess him -- while it's easy to think that anything could have beaten the Newton, would the current Apple touchscreen tablet craze even be here if it weren't for the iPhone? And isn't Apple's smartphone just a hop, skip and a jump from their original PDA?

TUAW The Apple tablet that wasn't originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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