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[fyrefly]

I have a Magic Mouse that I've used with my late-2008 MacBook Air and my early-2008 MacBook Pro (pre-unibody). It has worked perfectly with both.

Is there some 802.11G 2.4Ghz spectrum interference going on that maybe the Magic Mouse is more susceptible to than your Mighty Mouse?

[macgreiner]

Mine has a terribly slow tracking speed as you have indicated, but so far, no drop outs.
Has anyone else had the skin on their thumb inadvertently pinched between the perspex top and alu side?

[bjojade]

I've had no such issues with the magic mouse. However, I DO get the dropped connection with the keyboard. The first 2 days it was fine, but since then, it's lost connection several times a day. Frustrating to say the least. I switched back to a wired keyboard.

[jimmylittle]

mine has been working fine, even along side a Logitech PS3 Media Keyboard with Trackpad that I'm using in a pinch...

[BooYah_2001]

I hate bluetooth products. Besides taking forever to pair, they suck down batteries. I'll stick with my RF logitech thank you.

[flybynight]

This is why wish the Magic Mouse had a tail. I won't buy wireless input devices.

[GiantSalamader]

Has anyone done research regarding BlueTooth signal interference? The slow tracking speed might be related to the mouse's signal dropping out.

[SprayPass]

My wife got a third party bluetooth mouse for her MacBook sometime ago - it was a Logitech, I think. Worked fine on her laptop but when I tried it on my MacPro it worked very poorly. This even though my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse worked flawlessly on the MacPro. That turned out to be the problem: when both mice were on, the Mighty Mouse seemed to grab control even if I was trying to use the third party mouse. When I turned off the Mighty Mouse the third party mouse worked much better. Maybe you're seeing this "two mouse effect" here.

[SprayPass]

BooYah_2001, on 06 November 2009 - 01:54 PM, said:

I hate bluetooth products. Besides taking forever to pair, they suck down batteries. I'll stick with my RF logitech thank you.

My experience is very different. My Mac Bluetooth keyboard runs about 8 months between battery changes and the Mighty Mouse about 6 months (If you use Li batteries in it, it will run for a full year). And this is without ever switching off the devices. What I like about the BT Mighty Mouse is that it's always ready to go: even if I haven't touched the mouse for an hour, the instant I move it, the pointer on the screen moves. I don't have to click to wake it up or anything like that.

[dreyfus]

I had terrible problems and similar symptoms using BT devices with an older Mac Pro with the X1900XT video card. I never suspected the GPU to be the problem, but after the GPU died because of overheating VRAM modules (a common problem with the Mac version of this particular card) and getting a different video card, all BT devices started to work normally... I do not know enough about electronics to understand the technicalities causing the issues; just glad they are solved.

[Ventzi_Zhechev]

I’ve had the aluminium keyboard almost since it first came out and I ordered my Magic Mouse the day it was announced. So far, I’ve never experienced any trouble with either device.
Frankly, it feels like it is some kind of hardware incompatibility paired with buggy drivers or something…

[mhale0]

I had trouble with the MAgic Mouse on my Early ’09 Mac Pro at work, but it works great with my Early ’08 iMac at home. My money is on BT signal strength.

[Kalev]

I've been using my new Magic Mouse heavily (8-10 hours per day) for about a week now. It has worked without a glitch -- no drop outs, no slow tracking.

Perhaps this isn't conclusive, but it certainly suggests there's some other interaction involved where problems have been reported. It doesn't seem to be purely a Magic Mouse issue.

Kalev, on 06 November 2009 - 02:17 PM, said:

I've been using my new Magic Mouse heavily (8-10 hours per day) for about a week now. It has worked without a glitch -- no drop outs, no slow tracking.

Perhaps this isn't conclusive, but it certainly suggests there's some other interaction involved where problems have been reported. It doesn't seem to be purely a Magic Mouse issue.

BTW, this is with a mid-2009 MacBook Pro.