Re: Apple Wireless Mouse/Keyboard connection woes

I've been using wireless keyboards (mostly infrared with a built in
thumbmouse) for over 12 years. Most failures were line of sight errors
with the infrared (eliminated when radio based wireless keyboards
arrived). These were mostly Acer, and then an unbranded Taiwanese
product.

Second most common failure was battery problems, including things like
corrosion, cheap connectors not having enough spring, and just keyboards
going weird and needing batteries removed for a moment.

The radio keyboards for Windows (like the Microsoft PS/2 wireless) had
the same battery problems, mostly when batteries had been in use for a
few months. They also didn't like working with some brands of Windows
laptops. Seemed to work OK with a Mac Powerbook via a USB to twin PS2
adaptor, with no drivers used. I was testing how that keyboard might
work with a Mac mini

The Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse I have at the moment seems much
the same, but is a lot more tidy. I've had one incident of the keyboard
getting confused, in about two months. Flicking it off for ten seconds
and then back on seemed to fix it.

I find the wireless keyboards a lot less trouble than coping with cord
management for keyboard and mouse.

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