On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 17:17 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:09:55PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:23 PM, George N. White III <gnwiii(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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> >
> > Where I work, there is no wifi but iMacs are purchased with
> > bluetooth mouse and keyboard. With a bunch of systems in a cubicle farm,
> > bluetooth is not reliable, so users switch to USB mouse and keyboard.
>
> Wired keyboard is fine, it's rather stationary. But having reliably
> used an Apple Magicmouse on macOS for years, there is no way I'd ever
> go back to a wired mouse. I'd go so far as to use Windows if the only
> other alternative was to go to a wired mouse.
Look into keyboard and mouse wireless dongles that are not bt.
My desktop tower is pretty far behind me. I use a Logitech
kbd&mouse. They use a single, tiny usb dongle for both. It
was too great a distance, so I added a usb extender cable
to get the dongle closer. Works great.
Same here, however I'm pretty sure these things actually are BT under
the hood. I have a Microsoft kb/mouse combo with dongle and nothing on
the labelling or box mentions BT anywhere, but under "lsusb" I see "Bus
001 Device 003: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for
Bluetooth". I use the kb all the time, but the mouse is kept handy for
when I need to turn on BT for the other mouse! It acts exactly like a
USB wired mouse and *never* fails to connect. (I don't like the scroll
wheel, which is why I use the other one for normal work).
poc