# When did Apple regularally ship with 2 (or more) button mouses

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 22, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-apple-regularally-ship-with-2-or-more-button-mouses/586441 "2011-06-22T15:54:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-apple-regularally-ship-with-2-or-more-button-mouses/586441/21 "2011-06-24T16:01:42Z")

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> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#):
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> I bought an iMac a few weeks ago and it came with one of these. It is _so cool_! I like being able to go back & forward through webpages by just brushing my fingers on it.

I take it you’d never owned a mouse that had side buttons? Because “back” and “forward” has been the default mapping on the side buttons of the 5-button mice that I’ve been using for the past decade or so. (This is on the PC side; I’m not sure about design patterns for mice used on Macs.)

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