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 replaced it with another one. The replacement one it seems is no > better and my guess is the first one was probably ok and that something else > is going on. It seems that it is very battery hungry and perhaps there is > supposed to be a routine which puts the mouse to sleep when not in use hence > preserving battery life. I have done all Software updates and even downloaded > a specific update for eth Magic Mouse form the Apple site. I have MagicPrefs > installed too and maybe that is responsible but I suspect not. Ronni > indicated a while back there is a Mac OSX 10.6.3 coming soon and maybe I have > to just wait till then, but I need a pair of AA batteries every 4 days > currently – SuperDuty ones too! This seems to be the only way to wake up the > sleepy mouse. > > In the interim while I wait for 10.6.3, does anyone have any experiences like > this or can you point me to some other updates for this?
Hi Peter, The mouse should go to sleep fairly quickly I believe and is certainly sleeping when the computer is sleeping given the few minutes it might take independently to fall asleep. Of course if this isn't functioning properly that might cause the battery to drain as it looks for activity when there's no need. Do you turn off MagicMouse from the little switch at the bottom, or do you turn it off with the computer at night or when you are not going to be using it for awhile? Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
