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Join Date: Jun 2005
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I am very interested in purchasing an iMac -- although I may wait until the units with the Intel chips come available...
Anyway, I was just curious about the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Obviously they run on batteries -- what's the life of those batteries??
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Join Date: May 2005
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Battery life -- exactly the reason I haven't bought either one. Besides, I like multi-button mice. But, until Apple provides the products with rechargable batteries, I'm not buying them.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Chicago-ish, Illinois
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I have the Apple bluetooth keyboard. Battery life is fairly good. I use it about 50% of the time I'm at my Powerbook; it's never switched off (tho it automatically goes to sleep after a while), and I've changed the batteries twice in seven months.
Can't help you with the Apple BT mouse ... the one I use is the Logitech MX900 optical mouse. Since I have integrated bluetooth I don't need to use the base as a receiver, so I just plug into the power outlet. I've never run the batteries all the way down, but I make sure to set the mouse on the cradle to charge when I'm going to be away from the computer for a while. An added bonus is that you can program all the extra buttons to activate Expose and Dashboard.
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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i just got an imac with the wireless mouse and wireless keyboard.
it's wicked. i was told battery life was about 2 months or so. a little less w/ rechargable...but they are rechargable.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Indiana
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I've been happy with the bluetooth keyboard so far. Still shows full power after lots of usage the first couple of weeks.
I sold the BT mouse without ever using it. Got the logitech laser MX 1000 instead with rechargable battery. I've had to recharge it once in the same time period.
I recommend the keyboard, but I'd get another mouse, be it BT or not.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: The Tollbooth Capital of the US
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Well i'm using the Apple BT keyboard and I must say I'm pretty impressed with it. Had it since the begining of May and use it every day and sometimes when my brother is home he uses it for 5-6 hours at a time. I'm only down one spot on the battery meter.
For a BT mouse believe it or not I use the MS BT mouse. The dongle works with the Apple Keyboard as well so it's all good. I like it since it's a multi button mouse.
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"Evil is Powerless If the Good are Unafraid." -Ronald Reagan
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Saint Marys, PA
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I've been using the Apple bluetooth keyboard and Logitech MX900 bluetooth mouse. Both work great and the keyboard is showing 4/5 power meter bars and I never turn it off. I have drained the mouse before but that was after a good while of not putting it on its charger.
Both have been a great experience.
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