As some of you might remember, back at the beginning of October, Apple lost the rights to use the “Mighty Mouse” name for its line of computer peripherals, a much smaller peripheral manufacturer called Man & Machine gaining the rights after a long and fairly complicated patent litigation against CBS, which worked with Apple on its mice.

However, I'm pretty sure that the company from Cupertino was quite aware of the outcome of this litigation, and, for this reason, it was already working on a completely different peripheral, which would introduce a whole new family of Apple products: the Magic Mouse.

The Magic Mouse was officially unveiled on October 21 and brings some pretty interesting novelties to the world of computing peripherals, being the first to feature a multi-touch surface, which, at least in theory, should seriously enhance the way in which one controls their Mac system. And I'm only talking about Mac systems here because, as you'll be able to see for yourselves later on, one of the really disappointing things about the otherwise very cool mouse is that it doesn't natively support PC systems.

Of course, some tweaks and hacks designed to enable PC functionality have already made their way onto the Internet, but, then again, there aren't that many people out there who are willing to experiment with their peripherals. So, to some extent, this review is targeting Mac users only.

Luckily, we were able to take the new Apple peripheral for a spin ourselves, coming more or less impressed at the other end, at least as far as the functionality is concerned, because, design-wise, the Magic Mouse really is a work of art. We won't tell you more right now, but we'll have to warn you Mac users out there that the new Apple peripheral is some sort of mixed blessing, so it's rather difficult to start recommending it as your next must-have device.