I ordered Apple's own Apple Battery Charger with 6 NiMH Rechargeable batteries with my new 21.5"-3.20GHz i Mac (and later bought one-extra pair of NiMHs), and have never been disappointed to date. Warren ST On Sep 4, 2011, at 10:24 AM, John Kiss wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Keith Mills wrote: > >> My recent silence confirms my happiness with my new iMac - operating 10.6.8. >> >> Except ..... the wireless mouse seems to have a voracious appetite for batteries. The longest I have managed to last until they have had to be replaced has been 4 weeks. The last ones lasted a mere 10 days. >> >> Is this normal? If so (and if not) has anybody got any suggestions on how to cut down this massive consumption. It is rather spoiling all the good things. > > Buy yourself some rechargeable batteries. I bought the Sanyo Eneloop from Amazon.com and have been very happy with them. I paid about $29 for a package of 8 AA cells, 4 AAA cells and a charger. > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x-newbies/attachments/20110904/a9b829ed/attachment.htm>