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Stereo bluetooth headset for use with MacBook Pro
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
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I'd really like to get an A2DP headset to use with my MacBook Pro (currently I'm using my iPhone earbuds and I keep pulling them out every time I lean back...), but I've heard that the A2DP in the MBP isn't great and that it might not work that well. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Alternatively, I plan on upgrading my iPhone if/when they release the next gen (which will hopefully be this summer) in which case I'd just use the headset with that.
So either way I'd like to get the headset in the near future, so if anyone has any recommendations I would very much appreciate it.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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"Mac Daddy" - 15" MBP, 2.2 GHz Core i7, 8GB, 750GB HDD
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2006
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I'd be leery of bluetooth headsets. I've had nothing but trouble with them. Kernel panics related to A2DP. Here's just one of several discussions on the Apple support site regarding the problems. I finally gave up and bought a cheap USB headset. Works like a charm.
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Mac Enthusiast
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Originally Posted by Atheist 
I'd be leery of bluetooth headsets. I've had nothing but trouble with them. Kernel panics related to A2DP. Here's just one of several discussions on the Apple support site regarding the problems. I finally gave up and bought a cheap USB headset. Works like a charm.
Interesting...
I hadn't heard about that. I was really looking to use them with an ipod or iphone (or a blackberry), and maybe on my PC at work)...
Thanks for the warning about using on a Mac!
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"Mac Daddy" - 15" MBP, 2.2 GHz Core i7, 8GB, 750GB HDD
"Mommy Mac" - 13" Macbook, 2.4GHz C2D, 2GB, 160GB
"Baby Mac" - 15" PB, 1.5GHz, 1.5GB, 80GB
64GB iPod Touch (4th gen)
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I've had no problems with Plantronics bluetooth models, although they weren't A2DP.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Originally Posted by Cold Warrior
I've had no problems with Plantronics bluetooth models, although they weren't A2DP.
I'm almost certain it's the A2DP implementation on Leopard. I never had any trouble under Tiger. Upon upgrading to Leopard I started getting kernel panics. With each successive update of Leopard it got worse. I mostly used the headset with Skype however I would still get kernel panics just trying to use the headset for listening to iTunes.
Now that Skype is on the iPhone (the greatest thing since sliced bread if you ask me), it's not much of a worry.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Plantronics just announced a new Mac/PC unit that looks appealing. Google it.
-Allen Wicks
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