Good Bluetooth Mouse(s)?

[onoble]

Any recommendations?

Need a mac compatible one. Hopefully no more than $50.

[kerowo]

I've been using a belkin one for a couple of years and my only problem with it is the battery life. I haven't looked them for a while so I don't know if the price has come down yet or not, but they used to be pretty expensive. I'd consider looking at other wireless options as well.

[funkyworms]

Fast RF will have better speed, range, and connectivity than bluetooth.

[SamIAm]

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Fast RF will have better speed, range, and connectivity than bluetooth.

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That's true, but I bought an RF mouse (the Logitech one that got great reviews) and felt silly for using this RF dongle when my laptop already had bluetooth.

I admit to being a little jealous of the sleek mousers w/o a knob sticking out the side of their laptop. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[goldtoes]

[Josem]

You'll find that if you use bluetooth, you'll get a slight lag if you don't use your mouse for a short period of time.

Essentially, built into bluetooth is a process to automatically turn the main transmission process off to save battery power - this is most obviously useful for mobile phone headsets where you don't want a full connection continuously - only while talking.


In mice, this is less useful, as your mouse will effectively turn itself off if you leave it alone for maybe 10 or 30 seconds (i don't know what the timeout period is off the top of my head). It'll kick back in after half a second or something, but I reckon there's a good chance that you'll still find it irritating.

[onoble]

are there preferences to alter that?

[Josem]

i'm not aware of any preferences to reduce/alter that. i think it is just a "feature" of the bluetooth system, which is designed for small battery systems.

incidentally, it is important for bluetooth v2 that this sytem operates. version 2 includes higher throughput speeds, and hence more per second battery use, but since the data can be sent faster, the battery last longer since less time is actually spent sending data. it is likely that BTv3 and future devices will be similar, as it seems that data speeds and desires are increasing faster than battery lives.

Some more commentary on the issue is available courtesy of Google
http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid...tooth+mouse+lag

I think that if you're not needing instant responses (eg, gaming, amongst other uses) it'll probably just be mildly annoying - compensated by your ability to lose the wireless dongle you would otherwise need.

[kerowo]

On my Macs this was only noticable if the mouse was innactive for a couple of minutes, could explain the poor battery performance. I have played WOW using that mouse with no latency problems.

[onoble]

Coool, this will be used on a Mac... what kind of mouse do you use?

Also do you use PT, and PAHUD... my plan is parallels do you have experience with that?