[Cube] Bluetooth for Cube

[David Flory]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 07:13 PM, Brett Pearce wrote:

>> On Mar 3, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Brett Pearce wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone using a USB  Bluetooth adapter that will:
>>>
>>> 1) Work with Apple's wireless keyboard & mouse
>>>
>>> 2) Fit in the limited space around/below the Cube's ports

You can find lots of bluetooth dongles that will work. I'd like to 
bring another aspect of Bluetooth keyboard/mouse to your attention.

I bought a Blue Tooth dongle and keyoard and like using it a lot. Then 
I realized that I can't use the keyboard until the computer has 
finished booting up, so I can't use the option key during booting to 
pick which system I want to boot from, when I'm booting from either my 
computer, my backup FW external, my iPod, my CD or my DVD. I also can't 
use the C key to boot from a CD or use Command S to boot into single 
user mode and use Applejack for maintenance. Since I joined the Apple 
Select Developer list so I can seeds of the OS and am therefore 
upgrading all the time, I finally gave up and went back to the wired 
USB keyboard and my overall experience is nicer, IMOP. Give it a little 
thought and then decide. You won't be able to use the mouse while 
booting either.

Fair winds and happy bytes, Dave Flory
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