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Apple Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Firmware 1.1

Yeh, me too. I'm thinking about having a PayPal donations account haahaha

Wireless Mouse + Keyboard
2 x 512 MB RAM
160GB Sata hard disk

all to speed up my G5 cos its slow LOL
 
man, you know it's a pretty slow day when xserve shipment and peripheral firmware updates are the highlights of a tuesday...

bummer.
 
jxyama said:
man, you know it's a pretty slow day when xserve shipment and peripheral firmware updates are the highlights of a tuesday...

bummer.
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never a more true sentence spoken!
 
No, it has no extra connections. USB doesn't transfer over Bluetooth anyway.

I just updated both my mouse and keyboard with no issues. I'm curious as to what performance improvements, as they state, are included. Will my mouse go faster? :)
 
I went to buy the mouse the day it came out, but my coworker (who went with me) picked up the last one in the store. (D'oh!)

As soon as the next shipment arrived, I picked one up. At the time, I only had an iBook, so didn't think I'd want the keyboard. After a day or so of using the mouse, I went and purchased the keyboard. Yes, for my iBook. Yes, it was more than worth it.

Now, I use them on my G3 B&W, with a second wireless mouse for my iBook (so I can travel easily with it and not deprive my home computer (and my wife) of the mouse.

I'm curious what problems this firmware update has fixed. I've never had a single problem with either the mouse or the keyboard.
 
im gonna go download now....

downloaded....

and updater for each....

ran both...

no problems...no differences that i notice so far...
 
tomf87 said:
No, it has no extra connections. USB doesn't transfer over Bluetooth anyway.

I just updated both my mouse and keyboard with no issues. I'm curious as to what performance improvements, as they state, are included. Will my mouse go faster? :)
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It currupted one of my system prefs, had to spend some time with AppleCare, all is well now.
 
Macrumors said:
"The Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Firmware Updates improve Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse performance and reliability."
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finally, the long awaited updates are here!! ... oh man that is hot, totally worth the wait!
 
tomf87 said:
No, it has no extra connections. USB doesn't transfer over Bluetooth anyway.

I just updated both my mouse and keyboard with no issues. I'm curious as to what performance improvements, as they state, are included. Will my mouse go faster? :)
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My bluetooth mouse disconnects occasionally and I need to go back through the setup procedure for the system to recognize it again. This happens every time I turn the mouse off or replace the batteries.
 
Macrumors said:
"The Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Firmware Updates improve Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse performance and reliability."
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Two things:

(1) When I brought up the keyboard utility (don't have the Apple wireless mouse), I had to click on the lock icon to unlock things so I could update the keyboard. Not an issue for me, but I can see lots of regular owners wondering how to select the keyboard that's greyed out. Even took me a second to see what I had to do.

(2) Just how much can you improve the "performance and reliability" of the keyboard? I mean, I seem to type just as poorly now, and it captures every character just fine.
 
Firmware updates should be more streamlined. They should be like all Software Update, quick and one-click. No need to unstuff the updater, keep in in Applications/Utilities and run it seperately. That's just BS.

I haven't noticed much difference on my BT Mouse with 1.1 so far. The firmware update one before this one was a significant update, including a new button in the BT System Preferences which read:

"Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer"

But this latest update hasn't added anything of that kind. Hope it somehow increases the battery life though, that would be the only fix I think it needs.
 
jsw said:
Two things:

(1) When I brought up the keyboard utility (don't have the Apple wireless mouse), I had to click on the lock icon to unlock things so I could update the keyboard. Not an issue for me, but I can see lots of regular owners wondering how to select the keyboard that's greyed out. Even took me a second to see what I had to do.
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I was wondering the exact same thing.
 
Hey, maybe the update's so the mouse and keyboard will work with the soon to be announced new dual-3 GHz PowerMacs coming out next week!! Oh yeah, baby!!

Er... probably not. It just seems like every thread here speculates on the (presumed) pending G5 announcement. Having only been a member for a week, I wasn't sure if every thread was required to do so or not.
 
Too bad this firmware update doesn't add a right mouse button!

...ahh, I couldn't resist! ;)
 
I updated the mouse, but it still won't reconnect automatically after turning it off. I have to go through the setup all over again <sigh>.

This is not how it's supposed to work, right?
 
BKB said:
I was wondering the exact same thing.
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took me a few glances at the updater. Still after that no issues. hopefully this will improve the wake up time from sleep - its at least three Mississippi's which is too long imho
 
IJ Reilly said:
My bluetooth mouse disconnects occasionally and I need to go back through the setup procedure for the system to recognize it again. This happens every time I turn the mouse off or replace the batteries.
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I turn mine off every night after work. When I startup in the morning, I open my PB, and login. Then I turn on the mouse. If you'll watch, the red light will start blinking. Click the mouse a few times and it should take off. I had the same problem until I discovered this. Same goes for the keyboard. Hit a few keys and it will fire up quickly.

Also, the battery meter has been updated in Sys Prefs. I hope this isn't going to be like the iPod battery meter and go loco on us.
 
jsw said:
Hey, maybe the update's so the mouse and keyboard will work with the soon to be announced new dual-3 GHz PowerMacs coming out next week!! Oh yeah, baby!!

Er... probably not. It just seems like every thread here speculates on the (presumed) pending G5 announcement. Having only been a member for a week, I wasn't sure if every thread was required to do so or not.
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I nearly didn't read the second paragraph because I so pissed off after reading the first that I was about to flame you for saying that this news post (like EVERY other post lately) signals the imminent introduction of Power Mac upgrades! :)

Glad it was just a bit of satire though.
 
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