This guy had a problem with the feet on his RadTech BT600 and they sent him a new set. Good luck :)

Hope you’re enjoying it.

If your MM ever takes kicks the bucket look into this mouse, it’s really nice!

I looked around for a bit and couldn’t find anything that says that SteerMouse will or won’t work with the RadTech BT600 mouse. But I did check out the config options that SteerMouse provides and from what I can tell RadTech’s free mouse driver RadMouse seems to offer about the same features. If SteerMouse doesn’t end up working with the BT600 then you’ll be out your $20, but you’ll still be able to use most of what SteerMouse provides via RadMouse.

Here are some screenshots of the RadMouse preferences that I took. There are more screenshots on the RadMouse page which show more in depth features than the pics below.

I’m considering this mouse as an option compared to the Wireless Mighty Mouse.
Thanks in advance for your help!!

~Nate

Again, thanks for your replies; I appreciate it!

~Nate

After the troubleshooting routine I did yesterday, the mouse has been working fine *mostly.* At times, especially when the cpu load on the computer is high, I see the mouse lagging, and I’m starting to wonder if it’s the computer and not the mouse. This is the only bluetooth mouse I have access to, so my next testing would be to hunt around for my usb-bt adapter and try it on another computer.

John,
Its a bummer that the FCC doesn’t give consumer electronics any more frequencies to use. When I lived in the city I also had a ton of WiFi networks in my area. If you’re Mac is a notebook you could always head to a park or something to try to limit the interference for testing. If not then I think that your idea of testing it with a usb Bluetooth dongle would be your next best bet.

~Nate

I would probably focus on #9 and #17.

The most annoying thing about the MS wireless mouse I had was that sometimes I would click (as many as 5 times) and it wouldn’t do anything. Have you seen any problems like that with the BT?

Do you have any good recommendations for bluetooth keyboard?

thanks

another question. Does waking up/tuning on the BT600 wake up your computer? With my old wireless mouse I had to spin the scroll wheel because it sent signals only occasionally while in sleep mode.

I have the apple keyboard that came with my computer, I actually dont like the form factor which a factor in wanting to get something else, and preferably something bluetooth. :)

System Preferences > BlueTooth > Settings > 3rd check box down

I don’t have any recommendations for a non Apple BlueTooth keyboard as I don’t have one myself. I would however recommend going to a Fry’s, BestBuy, or CompuUSA and checking out a few different keybaords. I know that Fry’s usually has a bunch on display that you can get comfortable with. After you’ve found a few you like head home and try to look up some reviews. Most BlueTooth keyboards/mice should work ok with OS X, but its always best to read about users experiences. Good Luck!

I recently bought the Radtech BT600 mouse and really like it. However, one thing has really been bothering me. Sometimes, the mouse either just hangs or the pointer keeps on moving even after I have stopped moving the mouse. This happens quite frequently especially when hovering over links etc. I am currently using it with my Macbook Pro and really want it to work as I found this to be a good alternative to the Mighty mouse since I am also running Windows through Parallels for school purposes. I gave all the troubleshooting steps at the Radtech site a shot as well. But the problem is still there. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks..

I’ve been in touch with RadTech tech support, which I have to say have been very accommodating. They sent my one replacement mouse which did the same thing and now a second replacement which is not any better. So don’t know what to say at this time. The problem occurs only if the mouse is more than a keyboards length away from the Powerbook. I’ve even moved to a different location in the house and have taken the Powerbook to work to rule out interference.

I’m thinking about trying the BT Mighty Mouse to rule out any other issue because I’m kind of stumped at this point especially since the mouse works fine when it’s next to the Powerbook…

I’m thinking it may have to do with it’s recharge function. Here is what I’m seeing:

* Mouse starts to run low on battery and starts being flaky.

* I turn off the mouse, plug in the power cable, wait for the lights to stop blinking, then turn it back on. I’ve often found that if I just plug in the cable mid-use w/o turning it off, the flakiness persists. So if I do the whole off/cable/wait/on routine, the mouse works properly.

* Once the battery is “fully charged” and the light turns green, the flakiness comes back.

* I turn off the mouse, unplug the cable, turn it back on, and it works fine again.

In that aspect, I’m starting to feel that battery does not charge fully by the mouse. One time, the battery level was so low that the mouse kept disconnecting every 10-15 seconds. And when I charged it using the mouse, it took no more than 2 hours to charge. And as I use it on daily basis, I see the need to plug in the cable more frequently. Even on my external smart battery charger, the batteries get fairly warm even on a slow charge and it takes longer than 2 hours to fully discharge and recharge a 2000mAh NiMH AA. I’ll have to test it out again, but I remember (this is just a feeling. nothing timed.) that a freshly charged battery from the external charger lasted a lot longer in the mouse than one “fully charged” by the mouse.

I probably should contact RadTech directly.

As for Scott’s report. I’ve read on Apple’s forum that Macbook’s BT range is really short. I don’t know if this is the case for your Powerbook. But it isn’t what’s troubling me, as most of the time, I use the mouse right next to my MBP.

I did that but it still did not correct the problem. I’m going to give RadTech a call back to see what they say. I’ll post here…