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From: Peter Ceresole on 14 Jul 2010 05:18 I have a Magic Mouse, delivered with my iMac a week ago. Looking at the description in the Bluetooth tab, it says the battery charge on the mouse is 82%. Does this mean that they should last about 12 weeks before they need changing? Which, incidentally, doesn't seem like a hugely long time. -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 Jul 2010 06:06 On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:18:39 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >I have a Magic Mouse, delivered with my iMac a week ago. > >Looking at the description in the Bluetooth tab, it says the battery >charge on the mouse is 82%. Does this mean that they should last about >12 weeks before they need changing? Doesn't sound too far off - I think mine went 10 weeks on the supplied batteries. More like three weeks off my knackered old rechargables though. And OSX's mouse power warning panel suggests *buying new batteries* rather than recharging. Tut! >Which, incidentally, doesn't seem like a hugely long time. Mousing takes a lot more power than keyboards, lots more signalling - they can last over a year for me. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with a verb in his mouth." -- Mark Twain
From: Peter Ceresole on 14 Jul 2010 06:27 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > Doesn't sound too far off - I think mine went 10 weeks on the supplied > batteries. More like three weeks off my knackered old rechargables > though. Thanks for the hedzup. I had no standard of comparison. > Mousing takes a lot more power than keyboards, lots more signalling - > they can last over a year for me. My keyboard is a TactilePro, firmly wired. The Chiclet keyboard is okay, but with a TactilePro available, 'okay' isn't anything like good enough. The Chiclet won't pair with my old iG5 and its Bluetooth dongle, so I've hauled out of the cupboard my Nimitz and its USB/serial adapter. Both are going to Geneva this summer to replace my TiBook... Cry for me, why don't you... -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 14 Jul 2010 06:49 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > Doesn't sound too far off - I think mine went 10 weeks on the supplied > batteries. More like three weeks off my knackered old rechargables > though. Coincidentally I've got a relatively new set of rechargables of the right kind; the real pain in the bum is that, as far as I can see, if I lose the mouse's wireless connection while changing the batteries, I need to plug in a wired mouse to reconnect. Which seems naff to me... No problems with a laptop, but silly with the iMac. -- Peter
From: Jim on 14 Jul 2010 06:58
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Coincidentally I've got a relatively new set of rechargables of the > right kind; the real pain in the bum is that, as far as I can see, if I > lose the mouse's wireless connection while changing the batteries, I > need to plug in a wired mouse to reconnect. Which seems naff to me... I've ot seen that here. Changing the batteries on my Magic Mouse simply involves it losing conection for about a minute, then it reconects. Incidentally, if you use rechargables you probably won't get a 100% charge reading - more like low 80's. I guess that's due to rechargables being 1.2V rather than 1.5V Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ |