Overall, I’ve found the Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse experience with Mac OS X to be a mild improvement over the wired experience. The battery drain and replacement routine frustrates, but it’s only every few weeks, so it’s tolerable.
BUT I’ve now found a real aggravation. If I start my iMac G5 in Safe Boot mode, I can’t do anything because Bluetooth is disabled, so both mouse and keyboard are unrecognized. So I’ll need to borrow a wired keyboard and mouse (no, I didn’t keep them) tonight, and see then if Safe Boot lets me solve the problem.
Don’t encourage me to go wireless, Apple, and then leave me without a paddle when the stream gets a little “chunky.”
I want to use Safe Boot mode because I’m still working through my week-long (so far) odyssey to backup my data. Laptop is completed, but there appears to be something awry at low levels of the desktop disk. Everything works (knock on wood), so it hasn’t been a problem (yet?), but now I’m more eager than ever to backup.
Problem may have been triggered (or exacerbated) by enabling the Repair Permissions in SuperDuper after doing the recent iTunes update in Mac OS X 10.3.9, per Shirt Pocket:
The problem here is that you’re running 10.3.9 and tried to repair permissions after installing the latest iTunes update. Apple has caused some sort of problem when the new iTunes with Panther’s Repair Permissions code, and it causes the repair permissions code (inside OSX) to crash.
I’ve received significant, useful, clear support from Dave Nanian at Shirt Pocket through this entire week, starting even before I purchased a license (which I did do). Makes me happier with my purchase and a willing evangelist for SuperDuper.