Reviews for Squier by Fender® USB Stratocaster Guitar

In general it's been great fun. It's my first electric and I'm really enjoying playing it.
The USB connection really is terrible. My usage has been in my bedroom, no gigs, no waving it around, but mainly sitting and playing Sunshine of Your Love and practicing blues scales. The USB port is at the bottom of the body, right next to the strap button. I rarely use the strap, but it pushes against the connector. That combined with putting the guitar down in its stand (a good inch off the floor) without unplugging it means every time I look at it it's bent. I must have put it in its stand without unplugging it maybe twice, and today, 5 months into ownership, the USB cable bent and snapped while I was playing. I was sitting on a chair, NOT rocking out.
I did find that I had to have all the volume controls up pretty much at their peak in order to register on the GarageBand amp, though this might have been to do with the connection being dodgy.
It's also a bit of a pain having to change the audio driver and turn on monitoring in Garageband every time I plug in, rather than having some kind of default.
Overall, great fun, but it's now broken until I get a new cable, thanks to a design flaw.