Logitech’s new mouse repair partnership with iFixit isn’t for gamers, yet
Gotta start somewhere…
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Everyone’s favourite DIY hardware repair outfitiFixithas announced a new partnership with Logitech to make it easier to repair mice. The slight snag, for now, is that it’s currently limited to a pair of non-gaming mice models.
iFixit saysthat from this summer it will offer “genuine parts for Logitech MX Master and MX Anywhere mouse models.” Strictly speaking, neither of those are part of Logitech’s G Series of gaming mice, though the MX Master is pitched as a performance mouse.
Of course, you’ve got to start somewhere and it’s perhaps not reasonable to expect iFixit and Logitech to come out of the gate with parts listings for every Logitech mouse, ever (just please hurry with the Logitech G502 Lightspeed - Katie).
Currently, if youlink through to the new iFixit repair sitefor the MX Master, you can buy replacement batteries, feet and screws. And that’s it. There are no sensors, buttons, switches or wheels, for now. The same applies to the Logitech Anywhere series, which is even less likely to be a gamer’s choice.
Still, if you did need a battery replacement for either of these mice, you’ve now got a one-stop shop from which you can both order the parts and refer to iFixit’s characteristically accessible DIY repair guides.
It’s all baby steps for now, then. Steps in the right direction? For sure, but we’d really want to see parts like scroll wheels included for this new DIY repair initiative between iFixit and Logitech to be really worthwhile. Well, that and include a much wider range of mice like the Dave’s favourite from yesteryear, the G9, and Jacbo’s pick theG Pro X Superlight.
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Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.
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