I don't understand this comment in the article. What is incredible about that? I mean, I could turn my notebook or smartphone over and it would still charge the same, what's the big deal?
>This situation is worsened by the fact that many manufacturers now ship devices without a charging brick.
Which ones (so I can avoid them)? I just purchased a Dell notebook earlier this year and it came with a brick.
The people who complain about it are almost exclusively people who don't actually use it, but love to complain about it.
Plugging in a laptop is a nuisance, but at least I can do that every time I sit down to start working and it will manage itself all day.
The thing about my mouse is that when the battery gets low, I can just connect it to my laptop with the charging cable and continue working. It's much more convenient than quitting for the day, and cheaper than buying a second mouse.
I can’t think of any other recent electronics device that cannot be used while charging.
None of those can give me any meaningful amount of use time (and definitely not enough for a full work day) from a 2 minute charge.
My mouse can. The port location is not a problem. The constant whining about it from people who largely don't use it is more annoying than any disruption a charge cycle causes.
If my Logitech G502 Lightspeed mouse couldn't charge while in use, I wouldn't even consider buying it.
Because when I pay for premium service, I expect premium delivery.
Anything else is fanboyism, handwaving and/or stockholm syndrome.
Specially because previous generation of apple's mice could be charged while in use.
I don't know why you're so upset on defending a downgrade with zero tradeoffs, only to end up with an inferior product.
Similarly, if a mouse doesn't support touch gestures I wouldn't consider buying it.
I guess we both make compromises: you never have gesture support, I maybe can't use the mouse for two minutes while I go make a coffee if I forget to charge it overnight once a month.
> Specially because previous generation of apple's mice could be charged while in use.
The first version of the Magic Mouse required you to change AA batteries, and its predecessor was a wired USB mouse. Not really sure how you think either of those is charging while you use it?
I prefer many physical buttons for reliable macros :)
But when it comes to charging, there's no reason to just happily accept and defend an inferior solution for no tradeoff whatsoever.
It's literally a non issue that gets paraded out by people who don't use it at every opportunity.
When my mouse starts blinking I just plug cable and continue whatever I'm doing and it's a solved problem. No second guessing if I can take a break now in the middle of a meeting, no unnecessary cognitive load, no need to remember to charge it when "I have the time", it's... magical.
It just works.
But for those that do, it's great that we have choices.
I expect, if they ever get around to redesigning that mouse, they’ll change the port, if only to avoid derision. The recent port change was not enough to warrant moving the port. That front edge is quite thin so there may not be enough room in the current case.
why?
if it was a cheap chinese tier 3 mice that would still be debatable
let alone overpriced hardware