People have strong opinions about computer mice - after all, a mouse (along with a keyboard) physically forms a personal connection between you and your Mac. Apple's new Magic Mouse has a creative new design that, upon first impression, you'll either love or hate. [Review updated October 26, 2009]

Review For a company that pioneered the widespread use of the mouse as a computer controller, Apple has a surprisingly bad record at making good ones, particularly since the return of Steve Jobs and, with him, industrial design as the prime driver of product creation.

Apple Magic Mouse Based on pure aesthetics, Apple's new Magic Mouse is a crowning achievement for the company's design team. Sophisticated, alluring, and downright stunning, the Magic Mouse epitomizes Apple style.

Multi-Touch is easy to perform; Looks stunning; Very fast reconnect after idle; Excellent tracking

Limited to two buttons; Low profile may not be comfortable for bigger hands; Limited customization options

Let's be clear about this from the start - Apple does not have a good track record with mice. For years Apple mice had just one button, and Apple, thinking it knew best, refused to budge from this overly simplistic design even in the face of rising criticism from its own customers who simply wanted...

[ Roman Loyola is a Macworld senior editor. ]

Leave it to Apple to fundamentally improve the pointing device that they introduced to the mass market back in 1984. The addition of multi-touch technology -- pointing and dragging with your fingers -- to the top surface of the mouse -- where your fingers are -- has dramatically changed and improved...

Apple has broken its decade-long chain of terrible mouse designs with the new multitouch, wireless Magic Mouse, although its multitouch features are somewhat limited in functionality.

Apple's new Magic Mouse which we review, offers multi-touch capabilities reminiscent of a MacBook, iPod or iPhone, but as we found out, this mouse still belongs in a lab.

Absolutely gorgeous; reasonably priced; intuitive one-fingered scrolling; top notch build quality

Terribly uncomfortable to hold; almost impossible side-to-side swiping; install directions could be clearer; bloated 100MB drivers; no rechargeable batteries; packing tape left debris

Based on pure aesthetics, Apple's new Magic Mouse is a crowning achievement for the company's design team. Sophisticated, alluring, and downright stunning, the Magic Mouse epitomizes Apple style.

Looks stunning; Multi-Touch is easy to perform; excellent tracking; very fast reconnect after idle

Low profile may not be comfortable for bigger hands; limited to two buttons; limited customisation options

Multi-touch first came to the iPhone and iPod touch, then the MacBook Pro, and now Apple is putting multi-touch into it's latest mouse, the wireless Magic Mouse. The mouse has no moving scroll wheel, only a single button, which depending on how many fingers are on the mouse, accomplish different...

World's first multi-touch mouse; Ambidextrous design; Gestures work just like an iPhone

Doesn't work with PCs; Slender design may not work for everyone