[Cube] Bluetooth for Cube

[Brett Pearce]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 9:39 PM, David Flory wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Thanks for the info. My Cube's hooked up to my entertainment center and 
big screen so a wired keyboard isn't practical in my case. For the 
number of times I'd need to boot from anything other than the startup 
drive I  don't have a problem choosing the startup disk from System 
Preferences or if need be, plug in a wired keyboard.

One question comes to mind, do third party dongles require any 
drivers/software? If I booted off an OS X Install CD, would the 
bluetooth work?


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BP