Official “Better-mouse-philosophy” lacks modesty, obviously. Undoubtedly, Apple knows how Multi-Touch works. Magic Mouse may be rated as first desktop multi-touch mouse. As Apple claims its surface recognizes 5 gestures or finger manipulations. New gestures may easily be added via soft, I suppose. Apple should have thought of that.

Magic Mouse has one button similarly with its predecessor. For “left clicking” you just click any point on the surface. As the Mouse’s “back” is one big button. Whereas, the opening of the right-click menu requires another manipulation. You hold one finger and make a clicking move with another in the right corner.

However, scrolling is likely to become mostly appreciated feature. We all work with documents. Whether it’s web pages, mail, Word docs, whatever. I suppose that the scrolling will do best in browsing big pictures. We can move Magic Mouse in all directions. Not just up and down.

In addition, two-finger practical swiping pages the history. As for Zoom Screen… People, it’s just a far-fetched feature. Hold Control button and scroll to zoom is an old Mac OS function. It’s been a while. And it doesn’t require a mouse.

Regarding the design. As for me personally, it doesn’t work. Mighty Mouse had similar problems. And Magic Mouse seems to embrace them, as well. My hand gets tired. And rather quickly. Many people complain too. Both gadgets have excellent design. And Magic Mouse is something from future. But a mouse must be a gadget to work with not a toy to look at.

Whatever it is, Magic Mouse is another fine fruit from Apple “garden” stuffed with some supercool features.

The dimensions are twin to the 4G nano with 3.6- x 1.5- x 0.24-inches; however it somehow manages to lose its weight from 1.3 to 1.28 ounces. The battery is claimed to last up to 24 hours with playing audio.

The FM radio function Live Pause allows to tag the track you heard on the radio so that the next time you sync, iTunes finds it for you for making a purchase. Other flashy novelty is a pedometer that counts how many steps you’ve taken and how many calories you have burnt while walking.

Finally, the VoiceOver sounds the artist and the track name. Firstly this function appeared in iPod shuffle 3G and has migrated into iPhone and 5G iPod nano now.

With all these novelties introduced, there is much space left for further improvements, of course. But what we have now is something at least.