Bad Apple: Erratic Apple Mighty Mouse

First impressions of a Microsoft/PC drone: Well, what can I say, my new Mac Pro is one beautiful beast - a heavy, shiny and stunning addition to my desktop. And yes, it's cool.

BUT (inevitable), I already have some pet peeves. And no, I don't think its stuff that can just be lumped into a case of unfamiliarity.

Let's start with the Apple Mighty Mouse. Nope, I'm not complaining about the lack of buttons. In fact, I love it's design. But it seems to have a serious flaw - it needs some grounding, yes, the electrical kind!

Symptoms/tips:

1. You'll mistake it for a case of too much mouse button sensitivity. Move your cursor across the screen, and you'll hear it clicking like crazy. It's the lower right/left mouse "buttons" that are being activitated. So whatever action its defaulted to is activated....like crazy.
   
   
2. I ended up disabling the buttons (System Preferences)
   
   
3. Problem is, you can distinctly hear the clicking - at some point, you'll start to think that Apple took "mouse" quite literally...was there a poor mammal stuck in there trying to get out???
   
   
4. So I did some Googling and found this thread at Apple Insider - scroll down to the post of TheHerdsman - he/she's a genius.
   

Now you might think it's one of those "internet things" that can't pass for fact. Well, I did a simple test. Move the mouse while touching the Mac Pro body and voila! Its confirmed. Did another quick test with the keyboard - one hand resting on it (the metal parts), the other moving the mouse. Good. Yet another test, touch the base of that awesome cinema display. Sanity preserved.

Hope this helps you from doing the usual "PC thing" like, um, reinstalling the whole OS, and/or mucking around with some other settings. Actually, one might think this is a worse issue....

It seems that even tech support isn't aware of this - here's my theory on that. Most will just keep on exchanging their Mighty Mice at some Apple store, and when they give up, will likely replace by purchasing a standard mouse or a wireless one..