When you’re in the Apple ecosystem, it can be hard to venture out of it. This doesn’t just mean having both an iPhone and a Mac, but all the accessories too from AirPods to Apple Watches and more. If you’re using an iMac as you main computer, there is something weird about using a standard mouse on MacOS. You should get yourself the Apple Magic Mouse. It even happens to be on sale at the moment. Normally sold for $79, you can get one now for just $68—saving yourself $11.
The Magic Mouse is a staple of Apple’s desktop accessory lineup. It matches the aesthetic of the rest of what Apple has to offer, with its sleek, curved form and minimalist low-profile design. It feels good in your hand and it glides smoothly across your desk.
Multi-Touch Surface
The topside is a uniform, bare white that serves as a multi-touch surface to do everything. You can perform simple gestures that allow for swiping between webpages and scrolling through documents. A big benefit that offers is you can scroll vertically and horizontally at the same time, similar to what it’s like to pan around a zoomed in photo on your phone. This is super useful for graphical design like when using Adobe Photoshop. This can prove to be much easier to use and more intuitive than navigating via a trackwheel and left and right mouse buttons.
One thing though that is really a head-scratcher is how Apple decided to handle charging. So as a wireless mouse, you are connecting to your Mac over Bluetooth. It doesn’t do that indefinitely and will eventually run low on battery. While most other mice just let your plug them in and continue to use them while charging, Apple bafflingly put the USB-C port on the underside of the Magic Mouse. This means it’s impossible to use it while its charging.
Luckily, you’ll only need to charge it once a month roughly. There is no information provided on how long the mouse takes to charge, so you might be better off making a habit of plugging it in after logging off every so often so as never to reach a dreaded 0% battery, preventing you from getting work done.
Right now, you can grab the Apple Magic Mouse in white for the reduced price of $68. The mouse is also available in black for slightly more. That one is normally listed at $99, but has been cut down to just $94 for a limited time.
