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| Thread ID: 43163 | 2004-03-05 19:01:00 | What does this mean? | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 220307 | 2004-03-06 03:36:00 | Beware of those Microsoft wireless optical mice. We've got one here and its an absolute dog. Batteries are fine and everthing but every second or 3rd click you make it refuses to accept the command and does nothing. End up having to use the laptop keypad to make it accept the command. Definitely don't go with it, too unreliable. (XPM2200+ XPhome system) Try logitech and bluetooth products. Anyone know if that microsoft mouse mentioned above is bluetooth or some other wireless type? Does bluetooth have a big receiver thing or just a small device sticking out of the usb/ps2 port on the machine? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 220308 | 2004-03-06 05:44:00 | That has not been my experience with the MS wireless keyboard/mouse combo. It has all been very reliable for me. Do you have more than one near each other? If so, they may be interfering with each other and you may solve it by changing channels on one of them. My only gripe about the combo is that (a) the mouse battery compartment is an absolute nail breaker to open, and the batteries are quite difficult to remove, (b) the numlock/capslock/scroll lights are on the receiver, not the keyboard, which means it has to be in sight if you use those things. Tony B. |
tbacon_nz (865) | ||
| 220309 | 2004-03-06 08:32:00 | I was talking about a bluetooth Microsoft mouse, I have the microsoft mouse/keyboard combo on a megabox (as reviewed in PC World) and I have set up a wireless(radio freq) combo on the bosses computer. They both are very nice units and I haven't run into the problenm you have described, in fact apart from the boss uninstalling everything and playing with the shiny buttons when the batteries died and he tried "fixing" it, they both run very nicley. The Microsoft unit does have a 30 metre range but I had trouble seeing the 30"lcd after about 4 metres. The bluetooth unit is about the size of a cigarette lighter and if you connect it into the usb base unit it is still pretty small and discrete. | dipstick01 (445) | ||
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