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Should I get the wireless apple keyboard and wireless mouse or the wired keyboard and wired mouse?

Jun 15, 2009 by Mike | Posted in Laptops & Notebooks

I get a keyboard for my installation at home. I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro (new model) and 24-inch monitor when I work on my home office. For the 24-inch screen, is it better to get the Apple keyboard and wireless mouse or keyboard and mouse wired. So is it worth the money for both wireless?

That depends on you. Both have good and bad features.

The wire is the wire (of course) which may impede the opportunity and limit where the computer can be placed.

The wireless mouse is equipped with batteries that die on occasion. (Especially the mouse if you do a lot of point and click things like 1st person shooter games.) My keyboards usually require battery replacement a couple of times a year, but if I'm using the mouse heavily he may need batteries every week or two. Both use standard AA batteries, (2 mice and 4 in the keyboard) so it's nothing really expensive to replace.It is simply the discomfort and occasional "Bluetooth device not found" message that can be very annoying to boot.

I would get both the same simply because if 1 is wired, it limits the location of the computer. Defeat that one reason for spending extra money for radio. (The wireless keyboard has no USB ports as on the wired keyboard, so a wired mouse will be plugged into the computer directly or via a USB hub if the keyboard is wireless.

Will the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse work on a Windows PC via: Bluetooth?

Mar 19, 2008 by Parker | Posted in Add-ons

Will the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse work on a Windows PC via: Bluetooth?

They should. I know that the USB devices are compatible.

Apple Wireless Keyboard

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Apple's New Magic Mouse: Another Groundbreaking Innovation From ...

by trishussey

Apple's Mighty Mouse hit the streets in August 2005 (with the Bluetooth version about a year later) and was the first "buttonless" mouse, it also had the little gray scroll ball thingy and (hard to squeeze) side buttons. Apple took a lot of flack for the clickable trackball (it's infamously hard to clean) and I've never found the side squeeze buttons terribly useful (I find them uncomfortably hard to squeeze). When Apple made their big hardware announcements last month one of the most interesting new things was then new "Magic Mouse", which not only lacks buttons, but seems to lack any way to do much with it. Looks are very deceiving in this case because the Magic Mouse is a mouse like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and newer MacBook trackpads. Now that could be interesting, but is it?

I'm a sucker for new gadgets. A friend gave me her wireless Mighty Mouse and wireless Apple keyboard before she left for Yellowknife. I used the heck out of both of them, but I "shiny new toy" syndrome got the best of me when I was doing a marathon dash to finish my first book. The original Apple wireless keyboard was hard on my fingers to type on, so I asked around and got the new aluminum wired keyboard (my fiancée agreed that the original wireless keyboard key feel was pretty harsh). I keep flipping between the wireless Mighty Mouse and a wired, two-button mouse that has the more standard scroll wheel. I find the MIghty Mouse scrolling to be wonky at the best of times and the whole mouse action to be sluggish sometimes as well (it's also much heavier with the two AA batteries on board).

Well Apple got my gadget lust going again with the Magic Mouse (renamed because Apple recently lost a trademark battle over the "Mighty Mouse" name--and it wasn't even over the cartoon!). Man does that mouse look sleek. No real buttons, but multitouch like my trackpad. Oooh and my birthday is coming up too! Wait a second. This is another

$70 mouse. What if it is a total failure? Ugh.

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