Bluetooth mouse?

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:45 am

What's so great about a Bluetooth mouse which is far more costly than any other wireless optical mouse?
Anyone have/use one and have opinions?

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:33 am

the range is much farther with the ones i've used (Logitech). they state 10m range but i tested many of them and could basically walk out of the room and down the hall (this is in a office building) and the keyboard kept typing away.

TruckStuff · Post by **TruckStuff** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:28 am

Originally posted by b-man1
the range is much farther with the ones i've used (Logitech). they state 10m range but i tested many of them and could basically walk out of the room and down the hall (this is in a office building) and the keyboard kept typing away.

How could you tell what you were typing?? Are your eyes *that* good?

123cool · Post by **123cool** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:49 am

i was wondering the same thing but not for operating distance but how much lag is there in games when using this type of mouse? is it any better than a ordinary wireless mouse?

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:35 am

That'd be what I'd like to know, then there's Logitecs costly Lazer mouse too?

As for distance, one has to be close to any PC and my present wireless optical mice do that job fine.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:47 pm

someone else was in the room while i was wandering around testing the range.

we use them at work in large conference rooms where presenters want to wander around or sit far away from the pc while doing their talks...works great for that type of thing. as far as games...i haven't tried.

TruckStuff · Post by **TruckStuff** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:15 am

Originally posted by b-man1
someone else was in the room while i was wandering around testing the range.

rofl!

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:47 am

I concluded that a bluetooth mouse isn't worth trying on my PCs as I'll never need to use a mouse far away from the PC and for $80, the Logitech MX lazer mouse has many more features, buttons. The $80 bluetooth mouse I saw at BB seemed to just be a 2 button mouse with wheel, no big deal.

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:37 pm

Keyboards by far have a larger range than mice because of the nature of the communication between the keyboard and the base station and the mouse and the base station. Keyboards, if I am correct, send bursts of data when a key is hit while a mouse sends a continuous stream of data. The mice may work at a long distance but it won't be fluid motion.