> Apple wants to prevent users from leaving the mouse connected with a USB cable all the time.
Why should that be a problem?
Why should that be a problem?
Li-Ion batteries aren’t designed for that use-case.
Also the Magic Mouse has fast charging. You’ll get a full day of battery in 2min.
With a full charge, you’ll get 2+ months of usage.
Do the math. You’ll most likely charge this thing less than 20 times in it’s entire life.
That’s why the battery port design is both really smart and elegant. Unfortunately people don’t take the time to understand the purpose of design choices and jump to the easiest meme that reinforces their beliefs.
> With a full charge, you’ll get 2 months of usage.
> Do the math. You’ll most likely charge this thing less than 20 times in it’s entire life.
These things don't make sense as a whole.
Why put a fast charger in (to get your day's worth of charging) if your use case is "charge it to full, get 2 months", so you "likely charge this thing less than 20 times in its life"?
Most likely, you'll go to one extreme or the other, and I think the "less than 20 in its life" is entirely optimistic, and based on a use case that the design doesn't represent.
Fast charging is more intensive on the battery - you don't want it to be running on fast charge the whole time.
It's for scenarios where you might forget to charge or it's been sitting unused for a while but you still want to get to work quickly. It minimizes failure scenarios.
It's meant to be a wireless mouse. Emphasis on wireless.
It actually works really well. I still don't like the mouse because my hands are big and the ergonomics are absolutely terrible for me, but the charging design is well considered.
If a full charge lasts 2 months, then why keep it topped up while plugged in? Just charge it to 85%, then let it discharge to 50%, then charge it again. The circuit to do this can't be that hard to design.
Can anyone more knowledgeable confirm?
What they would need to do is detect when the port has been has been connected regularly for days and let the charge level drop to some announcement proportionate to the frequency and duration.
There simply is no good reason for the port placement.