The main benefit I see of the detachable cable is the ability to order specific lengths for your environment, rather than using a fancy-pants Filco velcro strip to tie up the wad of extra cable. If I had boards with connectors I'd get a 1' cable for home and a 10' for the office and I'd be smiling. Well, until the connector breaks apparently. The whole plan depends on Leopold having a quality connector arrangement in the keyboard. It shouldn't be any more fragile than any of the other connectors in consumer computing. I don't see many people complaining that their iPod should have permanent cables attached because the connectors break so often....