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:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:23 PM, George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
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).
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