The Magic Mouse* is the most satisfying new Apple product I’ve bought since the first-gen iPhone (the 3G’s great, too, but it was an upgrade, not a revelation). It just works — and it makes my three year old iMac feel like a brand new machine. All the vertical scrolling you do on sites—especially ones with an endless scroll like the Tumblr Dashboard—feels so satisfying with a little finger swipe, while the two-finger swipe is just fun. Our old Mighty Mouse was nice, but I was getting so sick of the little nubby roller ball, and rolling it around upside down every time it stopped working, which was almost daily.

$70 feels like too much to pay for a mouse—but it’s the main thing you touch when clicking around the web, which is mostly what I do on my iMac, and how often can you get what even Uncle Walt calls “a revolutionary product” for under $100?

update: There’s a cool shareware app called MagicPrefs that can add support for tons of new gestures to the Magic Mouse (thanks, michael).

* mouse pad completely unnecessary, even on a shiny countertop like mine. But it looks nice.