If Apple has its way, buttons will become a thing of the past. After slowly emaciating the mechanical controls on its wildly popular iPod media players and obliterating them from the touchpads on its notebook computer line, it now wants to purge them from every keyboard jock’s favorite rodent. The company’s new Magic Mouse, which is standard with all new iMacs or can be purchased separately for $69, is as sleek as an alien interstellar taxi, its other-worldly appearance fortified by the total absence of buttons.


