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My desk is a pigsty, so the last thing I should really have is something that isn't connected to the computer by a piece of wire, (the I. T. version of "idiot strings" for gloves; you know what I mean, there would have been some snotty nosed kid at school who used to have his gloves safety-pinned to a bit of elastic that went up one sleeve of his overcoat, and down the other, so he couldn't loose his gloves, did we used to take the piss or what? ooh it was you! whoops sorry!)

Well I have since grown up, I now need the "idiot strings" on my mouse and keyboard, but having changed to blue-tooth I love it, however I now keep losing my mouse. I always have lost my mouse but it used to be simple, either move everything about until the mouse fell off the table (only to be saved by it's tail) or else reach for the USB port it was plugged into and pull, until the mouse emerged from under whatever pile of paperwork it had been hiding.

The first thing that you notice with the Blue-tooth Keyboard and mouse (other than they don't have any trailing wires) is that they look and feel exactly like the standard Pro keyboard and Mouse. Ok the mouse is a little heavier, not surprising as it contains two AA Batteries and the keyboard also takes 4 AA batteries.

The first set of batteries lasted a couple of days in the mouse (but then I never switched it off) and the keyboard batteries lasted about 3 days.

So, seeing as I don't own shares in Duracell, I dug out some old rechargeable AA cells that I haven't used in a while, and bingo, no bankruptcy court case in sight, well not for overspending on batteries anyway.

Having used rechargeable's for a week or so the battery life has worked out to be 4 or five days, for the mouse and a week for the keyboard (without them ever being turned off). The one of the nice touches with the Apple Cordless Mouse and Keyboard is that unlike most other battery driven accessories the batteries all fit the same way round, no positive this way and then the other, OK so there is probably no real benefit, I just think that it is a nice touch, and if they can do it, why can't everyone else. Remove the base to replace the batteries and you will spot a little plus and minus switch to enable the sensitivity of the mouse to be adjusted. Place the batteries in and replace the cover and within a few moments the blue-tooth circuitry will pick up the mouse and away you go.

The mouse, other than the little bit of extra weight handles in exactly the same manner as the Apple Pro mouse, complete with the little pressure pads on each side that enable to you pick up the mouse and move it to the other end of the mouse mat, without the cursor moving. Having a blue-tooth keyboard, if anything, makes more sense than a blue-tooth mouse, as you barely notice the extra weight from the batteries, but what you do notice (especially of you are doing a lot of typing, and repetitive stuff that can be driven by the keyboard using keyboard short cuts and function keys assigned to specific tasks) is that you can comfortably sit back in your office chair with your feet on the desk (carefully avoiding the piles of paper) and, also assuming that your screen is big enough, type away to your hearts content, much the same way as I am now.

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