Apple A1152
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| Part number | A1152 |
|---|---|
| Branding | Apple |
| Manufacturer | Mitsumi |
| Buttons | 1 + touch sensor to emulate 2 |
| Handedness | Ambidextrous |
| Interfaces | USB 1.1 (Boot) |
| Sensor | Optical |
| Weight | 76g |
| Introduced | 2005 |
| Discontinued | 2017 |
| Precedes | Apple Magic Mouse |
| Supersedes | Apple Pro Mouse |
Apple A1152 Apple Mouse (previously called Mighty Mouse) was a standard mouse for Apple Macintosh computers. It was the first Macintosh mouse to support right-click and the first commercially available[footnote 1] Apple mouse with a scrolling control.
Contents
Features
Right click
Like its predecessor, the Apple Pro Mouse it has only one button, which also rocks the top cover forward. Instead of a second button it uses a touch sensor to find which side(s) a finger is on when it is pressed.
If a finger is on the right side of the mouse but not on the left, it produces a right click, otherwise it produces a left click. Because two fingers on the mouse produces a left click, it is not possible to produce both a left and a right click at once. The sensor could however register a finger when it is merely hovering over the left "button", thus easily misinterpreting a right click as a left.
Scroll ball
It has a miniature scrolling ball, for scrolling both vertically and horizontally. Horizontal scrolling is reported as on the Z-axis, and not as "AC Pan" like on Microsoft mice
Misc
The sensor is located in the front half, but is not aligned with its centre of gravity.
The USB cable is only 76 cm long[footnote 2], but it comes with an Apple-styled extension cord.
Name
The mouse was first introduced as "Mighty Mouse" but renamed after Man & Machine had sued them for trademark infringement.[1]. Because it was the current standard mouse, Apple rebranded it as "Apple Mouse".
A wireless "Apple Mighty Mouse" A1197 was introduced in 2006, and discontinued in 2009 (at the same time as the rebranding), being replaced by the wireless Apple Magic Mouse. The wired A1152 remained for sale separately until 2017 even after the "Magic" Mouse had replaced it as the standard Macintosh mouse.
See also
- Apple A1197 — the wireless version
- "Mighty Mouse"
Footnotes
- ↑ One of the first known scroll wheels on a mouse had been invented at Apple and patented eleven years earlier but not made into a commercial product. See Three degree of freedom graphic object controller.
- ↑ The short cable might be suitable when connected into the USB hub of an Apple keyboard, or into an Apple laptop.
References
- ↑ The Mac Observer—Man & Machine Sues Apple For "Mighty Mouse" Trademark Infringement, by Bryan Chaffin. Dated 2008-05-20. Retrieved 2018-12-04
