Peripherals

Magic Mouse Torn Apart, Nothing Magical Found Inside

By Dan Nosowitz on October 22, 2009 at 2:10 PM

What a bait-and-switch, Apple. You charge a boatload for this fancy new mouse and call it “Magic”, yet iFixit’s teardown reveals nothing even close to magical — just boatloads of capacitive sensors.

Major findings (and we use the word major so loosely we might as well not have bothered): The Magic Mouse uses the Broadcom BCM2042 Bluetooth chip, it’s covered in capacitive sensors from the Apple logo on up, and it’s hard to break into. Science fails to beat magic once again. [iFixit]

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  • Jude Rus
    October 22, 2009 at 5:15 PM

    No your wrong, look harder – there must be some magic in there somewhere…

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  • Curtis
    October 22, 2009 at 6:45 PM

    You’re all blind. Can’t you see the fairy in there..? It’s pretty huge, woah, the worlds gone pretty colours..

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  • matt
    October 22, 2009 at 6:58 PM

    The magic is, they remove functionality and charge you more! Freakin genious. I feel myself switching to windows. I wonder if gizmodo have an elixer for this condition?

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  • glennc
    October 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM

    you will only see the magic if you believe. or is it if you’re a child??? i always mix ‘em up

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