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I've always been a big fan of Microsoft's original Intellimouse from decades ago. When they stopped making them for (IMO) worse models, I feared the day my last one would die. Fortunately a few years ago MS has started making them again - same shape, same feel, same buttons in the same location. This is all important to me, so I figured I'd be smart and buy enough so I have a stack of spares that would outlast me. Given how long the previous ones lasted, I figured I'd have plenty buying a set of 5 of them. That was probably 3-4 years ago.

This morning I've switched over to my last spare.

There's 2 that are hooked up to systems I use constantly.

Of the three that went bad:
  • One suddenly had the pointer stuttering - jumping all over the place - on both X and Y axis.
  • The other two - including one I replaced this morning - has had the scroll wheel go bad. I'd scroll down one "tick" (if you wanna call it that), it would do it but then scroll back up again by 2 or 3 ticks. Incredibly annoying when you're trying to read through - well, anything that need scrolling through.
I'm unimpressed. I'll (eventually) take the time to open them up and clean them as best I can, but none of my (much) older generation ones ever even needed any sort of cleaning. The last one lasted longer than this entire set I bought all at once.

Not seeking any response. Just saying I'm annoyed at buying multiples of something that should outlast me, and turns out all need to be replaced after such a short amount of time.
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