{"id":806,"date":"2007-06-01T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T10:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/new-mighty-mouse.htm"},"modified":"2007-06-01T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T10:21:55","slug":"new-mighty-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/new-mighty-mouse.htm","title":{"rendered":"New (mighty) mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months back, I wrote about the problems I have been experiencing with my Apple Mighty Mouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I got used to cleaning the scroll ball<\/a>, but after a while, the right-click became unreliable – to the point where I had to connect an ordinary PC mouse to the Mac, which then worked perfectly (indicating that my configuration was fine).<\/p>\n

Contrary to the anecdotal reports that I linked in my original post, last week I took the not-so-mighty Mouse to the Apple Store in London (Regent Street), where a “genius” exchanged it for a new one.\u00c2\u00a0 I hadn’t been hopeful (as when it was my turn for service he was displaying a really unhelpful attitude, still complaining to a colleague about his previous customer) but, even after trying it out on another machine and not finding any problem, he commented that I “seem to know what I’m talking about” (I hope so!) and exchanged it anyway.<\/p>\n

I’d forgotten how good it was when it was new – I just hope this one lasts a bit longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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