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Razer Orochi V2

About a month and a half ago I bought a mouse for my MacBook. Buying a mouse in the modern world is not as simple as it might seem. Especially for a MacBook. And it's not even about the price.

Plugging a wired mouse into a MacBook isn't kosher, you won't have enough ports for all peripherals, especially since there's only type-c here. With wireless mice, there are two well-known chairs: on one chair mice with normal DPI (read: gaming) with their USB-A dongles, on the other chair Bluetooth. If you want to sit on both chairs, the choice decreases fatally.

Right away on obvious options: Magic Mouse was invented by Satan, this choice simply shouldn't exist, everything is wrong there (except gestures). Logitech MX Master is incredibly heavy and DPI is terrible, and I sometimes want to play games and carry it somewhere with me.

I chose Razer Orochi V2. Can do this and that and the third, but without excesses, just a mouse. Built superbly, nothing wobbles. Cons on paper: smallness, lack of ability to work wired (read: batteries), and lack of official macOS support.

I barely notice the smallness, lived several years with wired SteelSeries Rival 100, wouldn't say it differs much. Batteries are a minus, but you can insert AA, AAA or both to adjust the mass, that's cool, plus you definitely know the battery won't die in a couple of years. Lack of support for macOS at first glance isn't critical, but to roll out an update to the mouse, for example, you'll have to find a computer with Windows.

Until I bought a USB hub, it worked quite normally via BT. Later I already plugged the dongle into the hub, started feeling absolutely wonderful. Until a certain point. At some point, the mouse when working on 2.4GHz started getting lost and reconnecting. Via Bluetooth it works quite stably. Too many potential failure points: macOS, MacBook, usb-hub, dongle, mouse, neighbors jamming the frequency (Are all your frequencies occupied, why clash with the most popular WiFi frequency, mouse manufacturers, huh?). I continue observations. I suspect first of all, of course, macOS.