apart from the broken clip on the battery bay door- resolved with sticky tape and the fact that it can chew up batteries - if left on -it is great. But when you go back to an ordinary mouse you become confused as to why stroking it gives nothing other than a slight purr- sorry that might be a real mouse. tom samson On 22/01/2010, at 9:14 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote:
> Ok Greg, I feel I should let you know of my experiences with the magic Mouse > so you can go into the purchase 'eyes wide open'. > > I have a Magic Mouse and Macbook (both <1 month old) and I have had and still > having problems with mine despite lots of useful tips and feedback on WAMUG > and also a conversation with Apple support yesterday. > > My issue relates to holding a reliable Bluetooth connection between Macbook > and the Magic Mouse. The advice I had from Apple yesterday was to do the > following. > > 1 Turn off the Macbook > 2 Press Start and simultaneously hold “P”, “R”, Option and Command > keys to reboot – whilst holding these keys, allow the computer to restart 3 > times whilst still holding the keys down then let go after the third restart > to permit it to fully boot up > 3 Disconnect the Bluetooth mouse and then go through the process of > reconnecting > > These 3 steps seemed to help for a short while but it wasn't long until the > "Connection lost" screen popped up. It did once automatically reconnect but > after that once, I had to manually force the connection each and every time - > probably 6 times in the space of 1 hour. > > Magic it isn't - or maybe it is depending on how you want to look at it :) > > So I will call the store I bought it from to see if they can lend further > assistance - it seems I am having more than reasonable difficulties with this > mouse. > > I have numerous other Bluetooth devices, mobile to car handsfree, PDA phone > to Windows laptop, Bluetooth headsets, etc - and never have I had any > reliability of connection issues like this. The Apple guy said "well > Bluetooth is a very weak wireless signal and can be upset by wireless > networks and other wireless devices in the house". > > I believe there might be some bug fixes in the pipeline but not sure if this > one is a bug or an inherent flaw. > > Best of luck to you Greg. > > Is there anyone out there that has bulletproof Bluetooth connection between > their Magic Mouse and Macbook/iMac? It would give me comfort to know that > someone was happy with their MM. > > Cheers > > Peter… > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of > Greg Bell > Sent: Friday, 22 January 2010 8:32 AM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Power Saving and Snow Leopard > > > Hi Ronni, > > I don’t have a magic mouse, yet :-). Might buy one today. > > I've already tried the pmset -g log route. The longest running item only ran > for just less than 4 seconds, so I don’t think anything is holding it up, > it’s just not sleeping. The display sleeps correctly, but the computer, it > seems, won’t. > > I’ll try deleting the plist you speak of, though there’s nothing in it, other > than the default Apple stuff, so I don’t see that having any great impact. > :-). > > Thanks for your help > > Regards > > Greg > > On 22/01/2010, at 7:52 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > > > > > On 21/01/2010, at 11:30 PM, Greg Bell wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I’ve just upgraded my 1.5Ghz Intel Core Solo Mac Mini to Snow Leopard and > >> the Energy Saver control panel, seems to have stopped functioning > >> properly. My mac used to sleep by itself perfectly, but no longer does. > >> Has anyone else suffered similar issues with the Energy Saver and what did > >> you do to fix it? I’ve hunted around the net, and most people just talk > >> about issues with their MB/MBPs. I've got three other machines running SL > >> and they all function fine, and all of them went through the normal > >> upgrade process. BTW. My upgrades have all been from Tiger, bar one, which > >> was from Leopard. > >> > >> Hopefully someone out there has a clue or two. My current solution > >> involves using Please Sleep, which does work, but is a bit more brutal > >> than the built in control panel, which actually does pay attention to what > >> apps are running, rather than simply sleeping without asking. > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > A couple of thoughts. > > Are you talking specifically about system sleep, or display sleep? > > > > 1.Are you using a "Magic Mouse"? If so try turning it off and let the iMac > > go to sleep. > > > > This can happen because of background processes timing out or your system > > getting backed up while RAM is attempting to write to the hard disk during > > the sleep process (the more RAM you have, the slower the process could be). > > > > 2. You can narrow down the cause of the slow shut down using a simple > > Terminal command. Open Terminal and enter: > > pmset -g log > > The "Signature" with the longest "Response Time" (in ms) should be the > > first program to look at. > > > > 3. 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