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Thursday, July 27, 2006
SvenOnTech reported on Apple’s release of the Wireless Mighty Mouse Tuesday and while a few things are new, such as no cord and being laser guided, the big thing that keeps sticking out to us isn’t the fact that it can now be easily lost as your cordless phone but rather it’s $80 price tag.
For half the price, you can get a Logitech V200 and it comes in one of four colors. Sure, the V200 uses an optical sensor instead of laser but we’ve been using this mouse since it first graced the world of wireless and it’s been running strong as can be. Tracking hasn’t been an issue for us and we never use a mouse pad! Heck, Levis can’t even fool this bad boy!
So why would we want to pony up another $40 for Apple’s mouse? Sure, we loved our wired Mighty Mouse, though Expose’s activation when we didn’t expressly ask for it was a bit annoying, but to nearly double to price to make room for two AA batteries and a Bluetooth chip? Ya, ya, ya, and a laser. Still is it worth it? Heck, you can get a wireless Microsoft laser for $20! Why the huge jump in price, Apple?
We’re already seeing unpacking pictures of the Wireless Mighty Mouse and we’re glad there some out there willing to pay the higher mark up, but not us. We’ll stick with our Logitech work horse and use the extra $40 to buy another one for our PowerBook!
Update: The proper model number for the Bluetooth version is the V270. It retails for $49 instead of $39 as is the price for the V200.
Silly Logitech’s site jumped us to the V200 when digging down from its site via the Bluetooth option. Guess that should be fixed, aye?
July 27th, 2006 at 20:03
This model is not a bluetooth mouse. The Apple Mighty Mouse is. Not because it’s worth the difference, but it is a feature difference.
July 27th, 2006 at 20:42
Our bad, it’s the V270 that is the Bluetooth model. We followed the links through Logitech’s Bluetooth section and it some how led us to the V200 instead of the V270.
Final cost is ten dollars more…though the Apple Store has it for $20 more! Guess it wants to make it look comparable in price to the Wireless Mighty Mouse.
July 27th, 2006 at 20:53
I have a silver v270 with my Macbook. Do you experience a long (5-10 seconds) before the bluetooth re-connects and the mouse works after sleep? I find that very annoying. Otherwise it works great.
July 27th, 2006 at 20:54
Very strange article? Why would you lie about the price? The new apple mouse is $70 not $80. So there is a $30 price difference, but wait! Logictech sells a wireless laser mouse for $50 (that is still not bluetooth). They also sell a bluetooth wireless mouse that is not laser or $50. I could not find a mouse that had both but you could guess it would be at least $60 or about $10 less.
Wireless mighty mouse seems priced about right.
July 27th, 2006 at 21:04
wdavis, we sometimes see this delay but that’s because Bluetooth has to re-establish its connection after OS X is up and running which takes a second…or ten.
Aaah, Doug, we didn’t lie about the MM price, we just saw it for that price somewhere the day of release. Ya, the Apple Store does have it for $69 and thus closer to Logitech’s $49. But as we pointed out, the optical has worked excellent and even Photoshop has been happy with its less-than-perfect accuracy that laser offers over optical.
So if you want to shove twenty more dollars for laser, cool, it’s a capitalistic market. Your freedom and right to
wastespend your money.July 27th, 2006 at 22:23
Sven you sound like an idiot. A few facts. The Logitech ouse is designed for laptops and is not desktop mouse sized. It has been out some time and has gone down in price. I have used it with a Thinkpad and given up because of inconsistent behavior and loss of connection. I have had neither with my Apple bluetooth mighty mouse. You have not even tried the Apple mouse yet you are spewng inaccuracies all over the place. Grow up.
July 27th, 2006 at 22:30
Sven said: “But as we pointed out, the optical has worked excellent and even Photoshop has been happy with its less-than-perfect accuracy that laser offers over optical.”
laser over optical?
also, I believe the Mighty Mouse is made by Logitech for APPL.
July 28th, 2006 at 0:57
It just seems odd that a couple days after a product is introduced that you would quote anything OVER list price as the price of a product. It is a bit like bashing an Xbox as being over priced because some idiot paid $3000 for one on ebay. Then to try to further make your point about the product being over priced you compare it to a mouse that uses lower quality lower cost parts. My point is simply this:
Laser tracking is superior and more expensive (logitech charges about an extra $10 for it)
Bluetooth is more convent and more expensive than other wireless interfaces (again about $10)
So, although you can dismiss the need for both features it seems unfair to compare the apple mouse on price to lower quality mouse.
For a mouse with these features it seems it is priced about right.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:40
Odd, me, how you don’t want to leave your real name yet you like to call others names. How junior high of you. Shesh.
If you really used the Logitech mouse, you’d know it’s actually not a tiny little notebook mouse. It isn’t as long as the Mighty Mouse, but it isn’t very small, either. In my hand, it fits perfect. As for it losing signals and such, I haven’t had that issue. Maybe you should have tried it on a Mac and not a Windows machine. And you called me an idiot?
Doug, ya, I hear you but still $20 more for a mouse seems a bit for me. I used the regular MM on my wife’s Mac mini and ended up getting her a Logitech instead and she loves it more than the MM. (Got that me? We’re using it on a desktop.) Little quirks on the MM (wired) are probably the points that make me think it’s not worth the extra $20.