The Magic Mouse and The Mighty Macs
If you’re quite fond of that rather large glowing fruit company in Cupertino, you will already know that yesterday Apple released a slew of updates to their hardware range, along with a brand new product, the Magic Mouse – the world’s first multi-touch mouse.
The Apple Store was offline from approximately 3pm until 5.30pm UK time while they updated it with the new shiny hardware including new 21″ and 27″ iMacs, white unibody MacBook, Magic Mouse, new Apple Remote and updates to the Mac Mini, AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule. Almost too much to take in! tomacintosh.com has written a little on the new iMacs and their specs, here.
Aside from the new 27in iMac being of particular interest to me, the more affordable option currently is the Magic Mouse and Apple Remote. I ordered both of these shortly after the store came back online and delivery date was 5th November. However, the Apple Remote today changed to 2-4 weeks availability so my order was pushed back another 30 days. I did the sensible thing and cancelled the order for the remote otherwise that would have held up my Magic Mouse, which is now due to ship in 3-5 days.
I’m very much looking forward to using the new Magic Mouse. I bought my wireless Mighty Mouse back in February and while it’s much better than the wired version I’d been using for over 12 months before it, I do find the scroll ball something of an annoyance. To not have that aspect to deal with will be very refreshing. The new Apple Remote looks nice and finally it looks like it belongs with the iMac and MacBook Pro’s. I will pick one of those up when they’re in stock for immediate shipping.
As with every new hardware update of particular significance, it’s time to show some restraint and not let that reality distortion field take control. I suspect and must remember that in a few months we’ll all be salivating over something new and even more shiny – hopefully possibly the Apple tablet. As much as the new more powerful iMac would be a wonderful addition to my workflow, I am holding out for a tablet device. If that looks unlikely for the first quarter of 2010 then an upgraded iMac could take it’s place.
Were you excited about the hardware upgrades yesterday? Have you ordered a new Mac already or are you considering a purchase in the not too distant future? If you are ordering direct from Apple Store UK, would you consider using this link which supports Fruit Bytes as you buy. Thank you!
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I think the new mouse looks amazingly gorgeous, it just worries me that because it’s a newish technology, that things will go disastrously wrong. I’ve bought many computer mouses in the past and I’ve hated some of them.
The new Magic Mouse is pretty expensive so I really want to wait until I read your (and others) reviews of it once you’ve been using it for a while.
Personally, I think the new remote is ugly. I really don’t like the design of it, plus I think it’s a little pointless. My Macs are in front of me whenever I’m using them so controlling my music/media via the mouse/keyboard is the obvious choice. I guess if you have a Mac connected to a TV it would be worthwile?
The new iMacs look amazing, the new MacBook looks gorgeous and as for the rest, it doesn’t really interest me.
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I think it knows that it’s being replaced. (And we certainly know it stopped trying to “save the day” long ago)
All in all, I am very excited for my piece of space-age technology to arrive. (Seriously, it looks like it is from the new Star Trek movie, which Apple conveniently has on the screens of the new iMacs!)
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Haha, I’m giving my Mighty Mouse similar looks of disgust, Chris
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I’ve heard reports the Magic Mouse doesn’t fit in the hand too well as it’s so slimline. Saying that though, neither did the Mighty Mouse, so we’ll see how it goes!
p.s Nice post
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Hey Tom. A friend of mine bought the new 21″ iMac last night and speaks highly of the Magic Mouse: http://twitter.com/samhs/status/5065355736
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Im liking the look of the Magic Mouse,or should I maybe get a Wacom Bamboo touch and ditch a mouse completly?