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I had 3 of these mice over the years and each one eventually the cable would go bad/loose, I think including my G5, and I'm no fast twitch fps gamer. Looks like they changed he cable on this new one.

Ironically I switched to the MX series (multiple mx2 and mx2s, home/work) and I absolutely love them apart from the problems I used to have where they'd stutter on every OSX machine I used them on. I haven't had that problem in maybe a year, though. Logitech or OSX BT update maybe.

I can't go back to a non MX scroll wheel. I love it.

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Are there any good mice with replaceable cable? I no longer buy keyboards without replaceable cable (usually mechanical), surely the same could be applied for mice, how would one combat obsolescence otherwise.

Aren't all cables replaceable if you have a soldering iron?

I meant swappable, i.e easily replaceable. A regular user would not solder a new cable, you go and buy a new mouse. For better keyboards it's slowly changing, why don't we see the same for mice then? SteelSeries was doing that, but it should be more common with standard usb connection cable.

Oh, I see. Do new keyboards have a micro USB port and you can just get a new cable? I haven't seen this, but I've also never had a cable go bad on me so this isn't a problem I've had.

Most decent mice already use a connector between the cable and the board, its just not designed to be hot swappable.

The cable finally wore out on my old Logitech G5 and I was able to order a replacement for a few dollars. I also had to replace the skids since they covered the screw holes. All it took was a screwdriver and five minutes.

It’s the fidget spinner among mice. I use it mostly when working on windows where the Magic Trackpad isn’t really an option

There's a non-Apple driver for the trackpad that works reasonably well.

Do you happen to know what it's called? I was looking for this yesterday and couldn't find a good one with what I was Googling.

I pay $13/year for this: https://magicutilities.net/ They have a 30 day trial so you can test it out.

I tried the open source drivers on my MS Surface but I never got them to work.

Same one mentioned in the other reply. It has an annoying subscription and bind-to-device thing. On the other hand, it's cheap and it works.

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