[ibr80]

This blows !!! I was at the Apple Store in Rosevelt Field mall and I had the new Apple Pro Wireless mouse ready to pay when I told them that I had a USB Bluetooth adapter form D-Link, The onlu one apple.com offered as the only one and best at the time, and they turned around and told me that it is not compatible with such. First can somebody confirm this information and second ig this is the case this is very bad advertising on Apple's behalf considering that when you look at the specs needed online to use it, It only says you need a USB or built-in Bluetooth. I was really ticked considering I had to drive for 2 hours in traffic. Please voice your opinion's.

Regards,
Isaac Barreiros

[SOLIDAge]

Originally posted by ibr80:
This blows !!! I was at the Apple Store in Rosevelt Field mall and I had the new Apple Pro Wireless mouse ready to pay when I told them that I had a USB Bluetooth adapter form D-Link, The onlu one apple.com offered as the only one and best at the time, and they turned around and told me that it is not compatible with such. First can somebody confirm this information and second ig this is the case this is very bad advertising on Apple's behalf considering that when you look at the specs needed online to use it, It only says you need a USB or built-in Bluetooth. I was really ticked considering I had to drive for 2 hours in traffic. Please voice your opinion's.

Regards,
Isaac Barreiros

side note: i was there to today, and bought the first one from them!

[thePurpleGiant]

Originally posted by ibr80:
It only says you need a USB or built-in Bluetooth.

Not to say it doesn't suck at all - but that says 'built-in Bluetooth' - your D Link adaptor is not built in.

[Developer]

Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
Not to say it doesn't suck at all - but that says 'built-in Bluetooth' - your D Link adaptor is not built in.

It says USB adaptor or built in. I don't think it can require buit-in Bluetooth or it wouldn't be compatible with any of Apple's desktops.

[hardcat1970]

check the specs before you buy, it says:

Requires a Bluetooth enabled Macintosh (either built-in or using the qualified D-Link DBT-120 USB Bluetooth Adapter (older D-Link DWB-120M adapters are not supported). Mac OS X, v10.2.6 or higher required.

the only bluetooth adapter that works is the newest one from dlink, that sucks. I have the old D-Link also.

But it doesn't matter, the kb and mouse is not that great from apple, hoping for a third party or the 2nd revision from apple.

Apple store employees have no clue, they don't know anything. See other threads from macnn users, they talk about how stupid apple store employees too.

[striker100]

This is pretty funny, I was at the Roosevelt Field Mall Apple Store yesterday also and asked the same exact question.

There are two big threads over at spymac.com as to weather or not the d-link dongle will work with the G5, some say yes no problem, some say that the aluminum frame of the G5 blocks the bluetooth signal.
How this is I can't understand as the internal bluetooth module also needs the external antenna to function, the only difference I can see is that you'll need to use one of your usb ports for the d-link dongle.

Anyway when I asked at the RF Apple Store yesterday I got two different answers from two salesmen.

The one who said that you couldn't use it with the d-link dongle was saying it was because the d-link dongle was the "old bluetooth spec", he must have been thinking of old dongle that Apple says is not compatible.

If you have an Apple Cinema Display the best thing is to use the usb port on the back of the display.

[striker100]

Here are the two threads from spymac.com:

http://www.spymac.com/forums/showthr...threadid=40568

http://www.spymac.com/forums/showthr...threadid=40665

[hardcat1970]

Originally posted by striker100:
This is pretty funny, I was at the Roosevelt Field Mall Apple Store yesterday also and asked the same exact question.

There are two big threads over at spymac.com as to weather or not the d-link dongle will work with the G5, some say yes no problem, some say that the aluminum frame of the G5 blocks the bluetooth signal.
How this is I can't understand as the internal bluetooth module also needs the external antenna to function, the only difference I can see is that you'll need to use one of your usb ports for the d-link dongle.

Anyway when I asked at the RF Apple Store yesterday I got two different answers from two salesmen.

The one who said that you couldn't use it with the d-link dongle was saying it was because the d-link dongle was the "old bluetooth spec", he must have been thinking of old dongle that Apple says is not compatible.

If you have an Apple Cinema Display the best thing is to use the usb port on the back of the display.

i was at the mall yesterday also. The only dlink dongle for sale was the new one and they didn't have the sticker price on them. So i don't know what apple store employee was talking about.

[djjava]

Originally posted by ibr80:
This blows !!! I was at the Apple Store in Rosevelt Field mall and I had the new Apple Pro Wireless mouse ready to pay when I told them that I had a USB Bluetooth adapter form D-Link, The onlu one apple.com offered as the only one and best at the time, and they turned around and told me that it is not compatible with such. First can somebody confirm this information and second ig this is the case this is very bad advertising on Apple's behalf considering that when you look at the specs needed online to use it, It only says you need a USB or built-in Bluetooth. I was really ticked considering I had to drive for 2 hours in traffic. Please voice your opinion's.

Regards,
Isaac Barreiros

I know the box for the wireless keyboard specifically mentions the Dlink bluetooth dongle. not sure about mouse... I ain't getting it.

[Bax23]

I ordered the Keyboard, mouse, and D-link USB from the Apple store the day of the announcement and everything works fine for me. The only problem I have right now is getting the computer to sleep. It doesn't seem to want to sleep when the mouse and keyboard are turned off.