RE: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread Crisp, Peter
[mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Warwick Smith Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 2:29 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite Peter I had the same problem with battery consumption on both my Apple mice. The Apple/Bluetooth mouse seemed to use batteries much

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread Neil Houghton
ch.com.au > Website <http://www.hatch.com.au/> > > > From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of > Ronda Brown > Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 9:11 AM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite > > > > O

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread Warwick Smith
Peter I had the same problem with battery consumption on both my Apple mice. The Apple/Bluetooth mouse seemed to use batteries much more quickly (a few weeks admittedly) than the old Microsoft/Infrared one (that lasted months). After exploring all the possibilities, as a simple solution

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
haha after saying how good my batteries are going they just run out!! But I just checked of when I started to use it and its been just under 9 weeks. Roger On Thu Feb 11 12:58 , 'rkor...@iinet.net.au' sent: > >Hi Peter > >I have that turned on "Allow Bluetooth devices to >wake this computer

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Peter I have that turned on "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" something else is going on, but hard to tell what remotely :( Roger On Thu Feb 11 12:09 , James Devenish sent: > >Hi Peter, > >Perhaps if your System Preferences are to "Allow Bluetooth devices to >wake this comp

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread James Devenish
Hi Peter, Perhaps if your System Preferences are to "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer", then the mouse might not go into its lowest power mode then the computer is asleep. If you are able to turn this option off, then see if the batteries last any longer. You'll need to wake your com

RE: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread Crisp, Peter
ry 2010 9:30 AM To: 'WAMUG Mailing List' Subject: RE: Magic Mouse battery appetite Hi Peter Can you test the actual battery voltage? I think a starting point is to determine if the batteries are flat or the problem is in the computer system. With a variety of systems I&#

RE: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
gt; > > > > > > >From: >wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda >Brown > >Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 >9:11 AM > >To: WAMUG > Mailing List > >Subject: Re: Magic Mouse battery >appetite > > &g

RE: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread Crisp, Peter
ursday, 11 February 2010 9:11 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite On 11/02/2010, at 8:43 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Hi all, my Magic Mouse has been quite uncooperative since I got it a month ago (at the same time as I got a Macbook and Time Capsule - my first

RE: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread Alan Smith
8:44 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Magic Mouse battery appetite Hi all, my Magic Mouse has been quite uncooperative since I got it a month ago (at the same time as I got a Macbook and Time Capsule – my first foray into the Apple world). I took it back to the supplier and he agreed it was f

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread Ronda Brown
On 11/02/2010, at 8:43 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: > Hi all, my Magic Mouse has been quite uncooperative since I got it a month > ago (at the same time as I got a Macbook and Time Capsule – my first foray > into the Apple world). I took it back to the supplier and he agreed it was > faulty and rep

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
wow every few days!!! I have been using my magic mouse at the office for 2 months now on the same set of original batteries and being at the office it gets continual use. This is on my MacPro on the other iMac here its been on there for about 6 weeks but that is my spare so is not used so mu

Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread Crisp, Peter
Hi all, my Magic Mouse has been quite uncooperative since I got it a month ago (at the same time as I got a Macbook and Time Capsule - my first foray into the Apple world). I took it back to the supplier and he agreed it was faulty and replaced it with another one. The replacement one it seems is n