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Big deal. It won't win any design awards or anything.


You say that now. But with the hype around Apple products, it probably will win some award, to add to their list of others already won.

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There is already a two-button bluetooth mouse for Mac...


Yep. Thanks to the world of standard, USB multibutton mice and bluetooth mice have worked with no special software since OS X came out. Why the one button mouse has always been a big deal is beyond me. Noone complains in every post about HP how they don't ship a 8 button mouse standard with every machine. But yet, there was always someone waiting to post "One button mice suck" at the first sign of Apple in a news story. Now maybe they can move on to whining about something else. My Logitech MX 900 worked before this announcement with my Mac, and it continues to after the announcement. Big deal...

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I still don't see the advantage, especially given the headaches that bluetooth causes on Windows systems


Do you own a laptop? No? Then I can understand how you wouldn't see any advantages. I personally probably wouldn't see a ton of use in a bluetooth keyboard/mouse on a desktop. For me though, the less things I have to pack in the laptop carying case, the better. With Bluetooth on the Wintendo or Powerbook, I toss in the laptop, the power cord, and the mouse. Sometimes a keyboard as well. I don't have to then also remember an RF base station. I think of it similar to WiFi. I don't have to remember to keep a PCMCIA card with me on either system, since it's just built in.

Sure, Windows support isn't all that great, but for 3 years now, I've been syncing my cell phone contact list with my Mac, and using keyboards and mice with no dongles. If I lose my cell phone, I don't have to spend hours typing in phone contacts ever again. If I had a PDA, I could also sync it without worring about having the right cable or cradle for it. Thats the big deal. It's a shame most of your experience with Bluetooth has been with Microsoft products, because much like USB was in Windows 95/98, the experience would sour someone on it.

I still stand by Logitech making the best bluetooth devices for the computer, since they are the only company I know of with a bluetooth keyboard/mouse capable of working to get into the BIOS or during an OS install on an x86 based PC.