Not So Mighty Mouse

Of all the peo­ple I know per­so­nally, I am the big­gest advo­cate / lover of Apple pro­ducts. Anyone that knows me would tell you that I am a mac fana­tic. I have 2 mac pro’s, a mac­book pro, and a power­book, one dis­play of each size (20″,23″,30″), and a plethora of periphe­rals. Heck, I’m even sig­ned up as an Apple deve­lo­per and get the deve­lo­per new’s let­ters. BUT, every now and then, I do come across something about Apple that I think could be impro­ved and even some­ti­mes, something I don’t like. Most recently, I am left with a dis­sa­tis­fied taste in my mouth because of my bro­ken wire­less mighty mouse. Now, on top of being an Apple fana­tic, I am also VERY cau­tious and take great care of everything that I own. Some­ti­mes I even bother my wife with how fana­tic I am about being care­ful with the things that we own. I am by no means hard on things. That is why I was so sur­pri­sed when my mighty mouse broke, the first time it was ever drop­ped. I unders­tand that the beau­ti­ful mouse was not inten­ded to be drop­ped. But then again, neither are cell pho­nes, which I would con­si­der a much more fra­gile piece of tech­no­logy than a sim­ple wire­less mouse. And I have never bro­ken a cell phone in the past 5 years that I’ve had one, and carried it with me every­day. And even though I would con­si­der myself one that is good about not brea­king things, I have drop­ped a cell phone a fare share of times.. So natu­rally, I would expect that my mighty mouse should be able to with stand an occa­sio­nal drop or two. But noooooooo, it breaks on me, beyond use, the first time it ever met the floor. My guess is that the added weight of the bat­te­ries inside cau­sed it to hit with more force than it could handle. But one might think that Apple would test such a drop, as might be com­mon for a wire­less mouse. It makes sense to me that a wire­less mouse would see much more tra­vel time than a cor­ded mouse. In fact, that is the only rea­son I had this mouse.. To use with my lap­top when I was tra­ve­ling, because I HATE using the lap­top touch-pad mouse. And if you were to test wear and tear on a wire­less mouse, why wouldn’t you test it with the bat­te­ries in?

Maybe I just had a freak occu­rrence, and my “Mighty” mouse hit in just the right spot, at just the right velo­city, in just the right weather con­di­tions to make it fall apart as you can see in the pic­tu­res. But I’m gues­sing, this is not the case, and the Mighty Mouse is in fact, not so mighty. –kenny

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