Comment on Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo

seathru@quokk.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So this is not the first time Logitech will have had a mouse with a replaceable battery. The Logitech G7 had a swappable rechargeable battery and it was great.

  But yes it was a proprietary battery, but you only needed 2. One in the mouse and one in the recharge station. Swapping them out was basically the push of one button. I would love it if they went back to that sort of design.

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  • eremophila@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Nah, non-propreitary or the mouse can remain unsold.

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  • seathru@quokk.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’ve had lots with replaceable batteries. I really miss my G604. You could swap the 2 AA’s in about 10 seconds without even picking the mouse up.

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  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Savage, but then a mouse would be uncharacteristically heavy with a standard barrel battery, right??. A button may work but nobody makes rechargeable buttons yet.

    I switched from my fancy pants Turtle Beach Elite 800X headset, the top brand before Astro A40 and Arctis Nova Pro released, to a SteelSeries Siberia 800. Going from a dodgy, dying-battery premium headset to a midrange that comes with two batteries and more can be purchased was a (quite literal) game changer. So I can attest to Steelseries being great. Side bonus the batteries were coincidentally interchangeable with a few brands of Nokia but can’t remember which ones.

    My point is, SteelSeries are a great brand and they make mice with interchangeable, AAA, batteries. Like the Rival 3

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    • Ice@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah I’ve been using wireless mice that take AAA’s for years at this point. Thing is they last very long (maybe half a year) that it really doesn’t matter all that much.

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