Mighty Mouse not so mighty for gaming?
I don't have a Mighty Mouse yet, but I've been reading up on it. this is Apple's new multi-buttonish mouse complete with scrolling trackball thingy in place of a scrollwheel. Rather than having true button surfaces like most other mice out there, the Mighty Mouse uses touch-sensitive technology to sense where your fingers are: If you press on the left side, that's a left click, if you click on the right, that's a right click.
Lots of people have pondered the new mouse's suitability for gaming, since so many games play so much better if you have a multi-button mouse. What I've been told by several sources now is that if you keep your fingers on the surface of the mouse then click on the right side, it registers it as a left-click. In other words, to register a right-click, you have to make sure your index finger is away from the left side of the mouse all together.
That would make this new mouse a very poor peripheral for gaming, unfortunately. In the heat of a first person shooter firefight, or while playing RTS games or RPGs, you don't want to have to futz with your finger and hand placement to make sure that your mouse is properly registering right-clicks.
To that end, I guess I'll stick with the Logitech MX700 that's on my desk...