The wireless form of the TUF Gaming M4 is a light mouse with a few tricks up its sleeve. The main one is that it runs on replaceable batteries and doesn’t even come with a wire or a charging cable. Even worse, there’s no place to plug it in. When we took the TUF Gaming M4 Wireless out of its box, we saw that the extra AA battery was saved in the cardboard, and the AAA battery was kept in the shell. It’s pretty rare to find a gaming mouse with batteries that can be taken out and replaced. This is interesting and helpful in more than one way.
Most wireless mice have batteries that are built in. Over time, these batteries will slowly die, making the mouse useless. That’s not the case here because you can keep changing the batteries until it’s fully broken or you decide you want something else. After 60 million clicks, the buttons on the TUF Gaming M4 Wireless are likely to stop working.
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- 62g without battery and dongle
- 77g with AAA battery and converter
- 86g with AA battery
- PBT top cover with Asus Antibacterial Guard
- Slick 100% PTFE mouse feet
The TUF Gaming M4 Wireless can also use either a AAA or an AA battery, each of which has its own advantages. If you use a AAA cell instead of an AA battery, for example, the mouse weighs about 77 grams instead of 86 grams. If you don’t mind the extra weight, the AA battery will last longer, but it will be heavier. There is a smart case for the AAA battery that can be changed to fit in the AA slot. Asus says the mouse only weighs 62 grams, but that’s without the battery or the dongle that’s stored inside when it’s not being used. That is, technically, you could make it lighter that way, but it wouldn’t work.
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The second interesting thing about the TUF Gaming M4 Wireless is that it doesn’t have any kind of wire. On the front, where a USB-C or Micro-USB port would usually be, there is only plastic. This is helpful because it means you don’t have to worry about extra wires and your work won’t be a mess. The downside is that you can’t just grab a cable and switch it to wired mode when the battery is getting low. You’ll have to run around the house looking for an extra AA or AAA battery.