Why is Apple mouse so limited?

Coming from a PC, I find the Apple mouse really really annoying and limited. How the **** do I scroll up and down without a scroll wheel? Come on guys, this is 2014. Are you intentionally ******* people off? Do I have to go out and buy a 3rd party mouse that can do what a Windows mouse does?
There is a gray scroll bar that is supposed to appear when you hover close to the right edge of a panel. You grab it with the pointer and slide it up and down. On this brand new iMac, it appears sometimes and sometimes not at all. What is up with that? Sometimes I have to hurry to get the pointer over there only to have the scroll bar disappear. Then I have to use the up/down keys to scroll. That's pretty stupid stuff there.
I love the look of this Mac, and I'm sure Mac people are used to it and don't complain. But for a PC person it's freakin maddening trying to simple things. Help me out here. Maybe you should have a tutorial on the support page on how to use the Apple mouse if you came from a PC.

If you have a Magic Mouse go into the System/Mouse preference pane and set the scrolling and swiping settings there. If you click on an item there will be a demo of that feature in the window at the right.

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I went to Costco today and brought home the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 6000 and plugged it into my iMac. What a difference compared to the Apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse. It is so much nicer to type on, and the functionality of the MS mouse beats the Apple one button by far. I know about the mighty mouse, but it still feels cheap compared to the MS mouse.
Why is Apple so cheap about its keyboards? They make the best computer for the money, but ship it with a sub-standard keyboard and mouse. So now if I want to type comfortably and use a good mouse, I have to put up with RF instead of bluetooth, and the fact that they MS desktop set doesn't really match the iMac aesthetically. I dont want to have to trade off. I think Apple should provide form and function for $1299.

Those old "Battleship Potempkin" keyboards were awesome back in the day.
I bought out a school that was redoing their labs and had literally dozens of those in my garage along with some of the newer, smaller Keyboad IIs. I sold them off of eBay after I tested them and gave them a good cleaning. They went surprisingly fast.
There is a company that makes a modern keyboard with the same premium keyswitches of the AEKII, the Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard. I have read rave reviews of it, and for the price, it had better be good.

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Some folk have reported a similar issue apparently caused by the batteries being a bit loose in their box. The suggested fix for that is to insert a thin piece of cardboard between the battery cover and the batteries.

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I'm not sure if this question is in the right place. I bought a iMac back in January and I've been changing the batteries like every few weeks. My question is why does the mouse drain so quickly?
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Hello:
Battery drain is a function of how much the device is used (no surprise to you). I find that my mouse batteries last less - probably because I type so slowly, I use the mouse for anything I can.
Let me give you a suggestion based on my own experience.
I use rechargeable batteries and a 15 minute battery charger. I currently have a drawer full of Energizer 2450 mAh rechargeable batteries and an Energizer 15 minute charger (works for AA and AAA batteries). Rechargeables last less time than Lithium batteries - I think the reason is different voltages (1.2 vs 1.5). I obtained all of the batteries and the charger - new - on eBay at a very reasonable price.
By using rechargeables, you are never without a fresh battery more than 15 minutes, and you are environmentally friendly to boot!
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My Macbook just rebooted from Snow Leopard -> Lion upgrade. I also took the three updates after the upgrade.
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Hey everyone,
The reason that apple calls this "Natural" scolling is because it is natural. Take a sheet of paper and put it on you desk (yes, a real sheet of paper, not a virtual one and a real desk!). Now try to move the paper and up and down against that surface. You'll find that you have to move your fingers up to move the sheet up so that you can read futher down the sheet. This is Natural and this is the thinking behind the iOS and the new "Natural Scrolling" that Apple has enabled.
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Basically think about it like you are moving the paper that the text is on and NOT the text itself (Or Web page). Then this type of scrolling will seem natural to you.
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While most likely not of interest to you, Spotlight can also tell you where the files it finds are located
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<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420456/open-terminal-here-in-mac-os-finder>
<http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110729034827358>
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1047793/folderinterm.html>
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I'm having problems with the tracking on my Bluetooth Apple Mouse and I was wondering if Apple has a manual on this mouse. There is at least one switch on there that I have no idea what it's about.
I've fiddled with it and gotten the tracking to work again. Other times it doesn't work. I have no idea what that switch is about.
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One likely suspect is the batteries. If you're using
rechargeables, try good new regular ones for a while.
The rechargeables are 1.2 volts, regular AAs are
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I've thought of using those, but I don't. What I do -- though -- is take out one battery when I'm not using it. I don't use the mouse but every few days (or so), and maybe for up to a week or so. So, that way I figure I keep the battery in good shape.
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work right. Try cleaning the contacts in the mouse,
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Won't help, but you may not care!
Well..., it's irritating, but I can usually get it to working in about three to five minutes by taking the battery in and out and/or flipping that switch back and forth. It's never been any longer than about five minutes for me to get it to fully working again. But, since I've seen several others here mentioning this problem, it seems to me that it's some kind of hardware or software problem -- especially since the Bluetooth connection is made and is functioning with the mouse clicks (always without fail).
Good luck.
Thanks -- but say..., do you know what that "switch" is -- underneath the battery cover?
Best Regards...

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Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
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