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The Magic Mouse 2 is one of the worst mice I've ever used, but the charging thing is a non-issue. The battery lasts like a month on one charge. Mine has never g

The Magic Mouse 2 is one of the worst mice I've ever used, but the charging thing is a non-issue. The battery lasts like a month on one charge. Mine has never gone below 50%. This would be terrible for me, my battery always dies in the middle of the day, because I do not want to keep track of charging. Luckily, the Magic Trackpad 2 does not have this shortcoming and can be used with a lightning cable attached. (I absolutely love the Magic Trackpad 2. Not just because it is large, but some applications use haptic feedback. E.g. OmniGraffle uses a subtle vibration so that you feel when two objects are aligned.)

cmelbye 9y ago
You get nine hours of battery life from two minutes of charging for Magic Mouse 2. It's really not an issue.
- chrisper 9y ago
  Why does the magic mouse have fast charging but iPhones don't?
  - sitharus 9y ago
    iPhones do have fast charging, see Power and Battery on https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/specs/ https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/specs/ Also a magic mouse has much lower power drain, so the same amount of charge lasts much longer on the mouse.
  - jonknee 9y ago
    iPhones do have fast charging, but the mouse takes waaaay less power so a small amount of charging time gives a large amount of usage.
  - madeofpalk 9y ago
    It charges fast because it has a very small battery, not because it has Fast Charging™
  - robotresearcher 9y ago
    Why does your coffee mug fill fast from the faucet but your swimming pool doesn't?
coldtea 9y ago
>This would be terrible for me, my battery always dies in the middle of the day, because I do not want to keep track of charging. Don't keep track of charging, just plug it in once every 15-20 days over the night. If that's difficult, you're making things hard for no reason.
dpkonofa 9y ago
You don't have to keep track of it. The OS will tell you when you have 10% left which is about 2 days of use and it quick charges in about 20 minutes to give you a month's worth of use. It's a non-issue. FWIW, the reason it's on the bottom (according to one of the engineers) is because they didn't want people to leave it plugged in all the time while using it as that severely degrades the lifespan of the internal battery. Forcing people to plug it in while not in use apparently extended the lifespan by something crazy like 20x.

cmelbye 9y ago

You get nine hours of battery life from two minutes of charging for Magic Mouse 2. It's really not an issue.

chrisper 9y ago
Why does the magic mouse have fast charging but iPhones don't?
- sitharus 9y ago
  iPhones do have fast charging, see Power and Battery on https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/specs/ https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/specs/ Also a magic mouse has much lower power drain, so the same amount of charge lasts much longer on the mouse.
- jonknee 9y ago
  iPhones do have fast charging, but the mouse takes waaaay less power so a small amount of charging time gives a large amount of usage.
- madeofpalk 9y ago
  It charges fast because it has a very small battery, not because it has Fast Charging™
- robotresearcher 9y ago
  Why does your coffee mug fill fast from the faucet but your swimming pool doesn't?

coldtea 9y ago

>This would be terrible for me, my battery always dies in the middle of the day, because I do not want to keep track of charging. Don't keep track of charging, just plug it in once every 15-20 days over the night. If that's difficult, you're making things hard for no reason.

dpkonofa 9y ago

You don't have to keep track of it. The OS will tell you when you have 10% left which is about 2 days of use and it quick charges in about 20 minutes to give you a month's worth of use. It's a non-issue. FWIW, the reason it's on the bottom (according to one of the engineers) is because they didn't want people to leave it plugged in all the time while using it as that severely degrades the lifespan of the internal battery. Forcing people to plug it in while not in use apparently extended the lifespan by something crazy like 20x.