Patents: optical scrolling Mighty Mouse, more

I'vd gone through two mighty mice and while the "mouse" portion worked fine, I had to change them out because that stupid scroll ball is not worth a *&@#!

I'm now on my second Mighty Mouse for the same reason. When the scroll ball works, it works great. However, you have to clean it constantly! Sort of reminds me of the old pre-optical mice days. I hope they come out with a better mouse soon!

I replaced my first Mighty Mouse that had a balky scroll ball after about 3 months. When the 2nd one acted up, I figured out how to clean it, and its been working for a couple of years now (I even purchased a Bluetooth version for my MacBook a year ago). If rolling the MM around upside-down on the mouse pad vigorously (rolling on the scroll ball) doesn't free it up, I then use a B-D Alchohol Swab (P/N 326895) to roll the ball in all directions for a minute or two. That's always taken care of it. Often I can see bits of crud that this process brings up out of the ball well. This might have to be repeated about once a month. Nevertheless, having a non-mechanical scroll “ball” would probably be an improvement.

...for Apple. I won't buy another.