Wireless Keyboard & Mouse

Hello,

I'm thinking about buying a Belkin wireless keyboard and mouse.
I know that it's powered by batteries, but how long do they last?
Are wireless keyboards & mouses reliable?

my logitech batteries last a while, but the one thing that doesn't make
sense to me is the mouse is always on, theres no off switch which you would
think they would include, I dont know if thats the case for the Belkin, the
keyboard on the other hand hasn't needed a change of batteries since I
bought it, which was about a year ago, the keyboard takes AAA and the mouse
takes AA, I bought some really good AA rechargables and swap them over
whever the others die, they are 1300mAh which basically means they last for
ages, about 4 to 5 weeks, and considering the mouse is always on that is
pretty good going I think.

Shiva


"Paul Maskell" <paul (AT) maskell17 (DOT) plus.com> wrote

Hello,

I'm thinking about buying a Belkin wireless keyboard and mouse.
I know that it's powered by batteries, but how long do they last?
Are wireless keyboards & mouses reliable?

Remo-Shiva wrote:

my logitech batteries last a while, but the one thing that
doesn't
make sense to me is the mouse is always on, theres no off
switch
which you would think they would include, I dont know if thats
the
case for the Belkin, the keyboard on the other hand hasn't
needed a
change of batteries since I bought it, which was about a year
ago,
the keyboard takes AAA and the mouse takes AA, I bought some
really
good AA rechargables and swap them over whever the others die,
they
are 1300mAh which basically means they last for ages, about 4
to 5
weeks, and considering the mouse is always on that is pretty
good
going I think.

Shiva

I am using 1800mAh NiMHs and they last about two weeks. It's
hard to do a real lifetime test since there must be some
difference in battery usage between a moving and an idle mouse;
the lights are certainly brighter when moving.

There is one problem in that the low battery warning does not
appear until very shortly before the batteries become unusable.
Does anyone know of a method for getting the warning to appear
earlier with NiMHs? I presume the short time is connected with
the fact that the batteries are 1.2 rather than 1.5 volts but I
don't see any Windows registry settings that could help.

TIA,

Jim Silverton.