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When mouse/trackpad dies, you don't want to stop working for 2 hours until internal battery charges.

AA batteries are cheap and common, so people will have spares to swap.

OTOH laptop batteries are much more expensive and non-standard, so less users are going to have spares. It makes sense to cater to majority of users who never buy & carry extra battery.



You also don't want the irony of having to plug in your "wireless" keyboard via USB to charge it, not unlike the PS3 controller.

Maybe I'm an idiot but I didn't realize the PS3 controller was wireless in the first place. It felt too light to have a battery in it.




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