Good news! Apple finally redesigns the Magic Mouse with USB-C! Bad news! The charging port is still on the bottom

Apple has just announced a caller iMac pinch M4 chip, and alongside its refreshed all-in-one PC, it's besides fto gaffe that it's redesigned nan Magic Mouse that comes pinch it - and we person immoderate bully and bad news.

First nan good: some nan Magic Mouse and nan Magic Keyboard now travel pinch USB-C ports. That's right, nan Lightning cable, which utilized to besides complaint iPhones and iPads until nan EU (and different institutions) forced Apple to move to nan non-proprietary USB-C, is now dead.

This is awesome news, particularly arsenic now that iPhones and iPads don't usage Lightning cables, group conscionable don't person that galore lying astir immoderate more, which tin beryllium annoying erstwhile nan peripherals tally retired of battery. Now, you tin complaint nan Magic Mouse, Keyboard aliases Trackpad utilizing nan aforesaid USB-C cablegram you usage to complaint your iPhone, MacBook and different peripherals.

Apple answered our prayers, but dashed our dreams

As gladsome arsenic I americium to spot USB-C yet included successful nan Magic Mouse (and nan different iMac peripherals, which stay color-matched to nan iMac you bargain them with), it seems for illustration Apple hasn't utilized this tweaked creation arsenic an excuse to hole 1 of nan astir glaring creation faults recovered successful its products.

That's right, nan charging larboard remains located connected nan bottom of nan Magic Mouse. This creation prime has baffled myself and beautiful overmuch each Mac proprietor for years. It intends erstwhile nan Magic Mouse runs retired of artillery and you request to plug it in, you can't usage nan rodent - arsenic it needs to beryllium flipped upside down to beryllium plugged in.

Pretty overmuch each different wireless rodent successful beingness has a charging larboard connected nan precocious half of nan body, which allows you to complaint nan rodent and usage it astatine nan aforesaid time.

The truth that Apple has gone truthful acold to alteration nan port, but not nan location, almost seems retired of spite. Surely it can't deliberation this was really a user-friendly spot to put nan larboard - yet it has stuck pinch it complete nan years. Come connected Apple, admit you were incorrect pinch this one, and I mightiness moreover commencement utilizing your Mice again...

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