Every Mac user has had their personal battle with the Magic Mouse. Switching from any mouse to the Apple Mouse takes several days to get used to the change in shape, its clicks unified and a touch surface that replaces the classic scroll wheels.
After a while, two main things can happen to you: either you love it, or you hate it and resort to another brand of mouse. Personally, I tried to balance it out, but eventually stopped using it. Not for functions, but for an urgent need.
There are pros and cons, but health comes first.
I like a lot of things about the Magic Mouse. I like its minimal ist design, I like its zero-latency Bluetooth connection, and I like that connecting it to a Mac is a matter of finding it in a Settings panel. And of course, I love how good its tactile surface is when scrolling vertically and horizontally everywhere.
But not everything is flowery. The Magic Mouse is the opposite of the definition of ergonomics, its price is too high knowing that its design is already thirteen years old, and the way to recharge its battery is indefensible. Imagine yourself in the situation of covering a opening speech live and suddenly the mouse battery dies. You don’t want to be in this situation.
My body gave me the alarm signal: the position of my arm was too forced
For a few years I have been using the Magic Mouse for its scrolling, sustainable Those shortcomings I mentioned. But over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed something that has raised alarm bells: stiffness in the muscles in my fingers on my right hand. Everyone takes the Magic Mouse as they want, but the way i used it meant constantly forcing a tense posture on my arm. And I was beginning to feel the consequences.
I did a quick test with another mouse I have for my MacBook Air, a Logitech MX Anywhere 2, and found that just resting my hand on the mouse allowed me to relax my arm much better. . I immediately made the decision: I had to change my mouse for health reasons.
I went with the one that many people who use Macs daily choose: a Logitech MX Master 3S. Its profile is much more ergonomic, it has more buttons and it works with a battery that charges via USB-C:
Much better posture than the one I was unconsciously using with the Magic Mouse.
Ironically, I bought the standard version of the MX Master 3S and not the Mac specific edition, the latter not including Logitech’s USB receiver, which forces me to use the mouse with Bluetooth which has no latency pain. If this I happen to need an extra USB port, but in return the mouse response is instantaneous
But beyond the relaxed posture with which I now use my mouse, what I’ve been most grateful for is what cries out to the sky:
See if it’s easy. I judge you too harshly, Jonathan Ive.
After a few days of using the MX Master 3S I could see an improvement in my arm, although of course I will go to the doctor if the problem does not go away. The lesson I take away: ergonomics and postural correction are much more important than saving cables, ports or buttons in favor of gestures and touch surfaces.
Will Apple ever be able to make an ergonomic mouse? His record in this regard is not very good, but there is always room for surprises. Maybe in the next few months, when we see the new iMacs or Mac Pros, Apple will somehow redeem itself. Hope is the last thing you lose.
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