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A spare mouse for the laptop bag, bought knowing what it is

TECKNET 2.4G Wireless Mouse

The fifth best-selling mouse on Amazon and the cheapest thing in this subcategory: a compact 2.4GHz mouse with a USB-A receiver, five DPI steps from 800 to 2600, rubber side grips and an on/off switch. It is a travel spare and a first mouse, not a daily driver — the review base is emphatic about comfort and equally emphatic about how long it lasts, and both halves are in the pros and cons below.

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Pros

  • ✓ Comfort and ease of use are the strongest themes on a very large review base — comfort 1,504 of 1,595 mentions positive, ease of use 1,169 of 1,221, ergonomics 2,781 of 3,087
  • ✓ A top-five seller in Amazon's Computer Mice across 78,970 ratings at 4.5★, which is more social proof than anything else in this subcategory carries
  • ✓ Five DPI steps — 800, 1200, 1600, 2000 and 2600 — switched on the mouse itself, so cursor speed is set without software
  • ✓ Plug and play on Windows, macOS, Chrome OS and Linux with the receiver, at up to 49 feet, with no driver and no account
  • ✓ 4.09 × 2.68 × 1.49 inches and an on/off switch: it goes in the laptop bag and does not wake up in there
  • ✓ Rubber side grips give the thumb something to rest against, which is the part of a cheap mouse that usually gets left out
  • ✓ The receiver stows inside the mouse, so the thing most likely to be lost travels attached to what it belongs to

Cons

  • – Durability is the finding that matters and it is severe: 608 positive of 2,621 mentions, so roughly four in five people who mention how long it lasted are complaining, and Amazon's own summary says it stopped working within a month of use. Buy it as a spare, not as the mouse you depend on
  • – The listing promises 24 months of battery and the reviews do not agree — battery life runs 717 positive of 1,645 mentions, with owners reporting it eating cells quickly. AAA batteries are not included either
  • – The side button does not work on macOS, which the listing states in its own notice. On a Mac this is a three-button mouse whatever the box says
  • – USB-A only, and the listing says so outright. A laptop with nothing but USB-C ports needs an adapter, and the receiver then occupies a port permanently — there is no Bluetooth to fall back on
  • – It will not track on glass; the listing carries that caveat in bold in its own bullet
  • – It is a conventional mouse in a subcategory built around vertical ones. If the reason you are here is to stop your hand rotating flat, the TECKNET vertical next to it is the one that does that, and this one does not
  • – Fourteen colours share this listing, so the 78,970 ratings describe the model rather than the specific colour you are ordering
  • – It is the small one of the two budget mice here. The Acer beside it is built for medium to large hands and carries forward and back buttons this one does not, for the same money
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TECKNET 2.4G Wireless Mouse

A spare mouse for the laptop bag, bought knowing what it is

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