Thoughts on design

Anatomy of mighty mouse

I had 4 mighty mice, somehow. Now I have 3. The first one started not responding when scrolling. I tried to open it up and wanted to clean up the inside like an old mouse track ball, however it was difficult to open it. In the end, I broke it.

I still have 3 of them. I gave one to my partner. One day, he wasn’t able to use the scroll function. I switched mine to his one.

This time, I took the risk to open up the mouse to see the inside again. This time, it went well. I bent a little of a plastic cover but I didn’t break it. To be able to clean up the scroll part, I needed a small Phillips head screw driver to open the particular part.

I haven’t had a chance to use the magic mouse, but I still like my mighty mouse especially with its application switcher function. I will put the parts back and will see if I can still use it.