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AppleZulu said:

OctoMonkey said:

AppleZulu said:

Pancake said:

foregoneconclusion said:

It only takes a few minutes to get 8-9 hours of charge using the port on the bottom. The complaints about the location were always inane. 

100%. It’s never been an issue for me. The BENEFIT of the charging port being in the bottom is nothing ever gets stuck in there. If it was on the back or front you wild over time get dirt, skin and lint stuck in the port. 

What's hilarious to me is that the critics seem to think that the placement of the charging port is either some kind of mistake or a form-over-function decision to not have a visible hole mucking up the sleek design.

The  reality is that the port was put on the bottom of the mouse quite intentionally, because it's a wireless mouse, and Ive didn't want users to leave it plugged in, using it as if it were a wired mouse. The OG Magic Mouse had to be flipped over to swap out the batteries. It doesn't take much longer than that maneuver to get a day's charge on the rechargeable one. 

It's not hard to imagine the next iteration won't have a port at all, and will simply charge via a watch charger and/or an iPhone MagSafe wireless charger. You won't be able to use it while it's charging that way, either. Whatever will people do?

What is hilarious to me is that Ive fanboys seem to thing that the placement of the charging port was to prevent accumulation of debris in the charging port when it was clearly a for over function decision to not have a visible hole mucking up the sleek design.
 
IF, as you assert, "Ive didn't want users to leave it plugged in, using it as if it were a wired mouse" it would have been because that would ruin his perceived aesthetic beauty of the design.  What we end up with is a design which looks horrible and is completely non-functional when charging.

Using it as a wireless mouse is literally its intended function. 

Do you get this worked up about not being able to drive your car while you're filling up the fuel tank? I've got news if you're thinking about driving an EV...

libertyandfree said:

His statement is true in many instances but not all.  If you are editing a multiGB file the 8GB could be a serious issue.   Moreover this does nothing to address the insane pricing for memory upgrades that Apple charges its customers.  These memory modules are less than $40 for 8GB but Apple charges an insane $200 to upgrade.  If it were only $100 most people would stop complaining about the memory limitations.  Same applies to the SSD upgrade pricing also 2-3x too expensive.