{"id":1880,"date":"2005-06-05T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T16:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1216"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:49:12","slug":"re-countdown-to-wwdc-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/05\/re-countdown-to-wwdc-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Countdown to WWDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a fun but tiring day wandering around the downtown area and doing some shopping. I ended up buying a RAM expansion for the iBook (600MHz, dual USB) I&#8217;m typing this on, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belkin.com\">Belkin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.belkin.com\/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&amp;Section_Id=200583&amp;pcount=&amp;Product_Id=157641\">F8T041-B bluetooth mouse<\/a>. This mouse has 4 buttons, a scrolll wheel and it&#8217;s quite larger than the mice I&#8217;m used to, but very comfortable. The included adapter is the <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.belkin.com\/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&amp;Section_Id=200583&amp;pcount=&amp;Product_Id=196899\">F8T003v<\/a> but without the cap for the USB connector; instead it comes with a small dock with 3 ft. of cable attached.<\/p>\n<p>No software was needed to get it working; just some fumbling around with the control panel, as I&#8217;d never used anything bluetoothy before. The manual says that the 2 AA batteries should last for about 25 days &#8220;average use&#8221;. Let&#8217;s see what that means in practice; I suppose that&#8217;d mean about a week for me, and I&#8217;ll be looking into buying a couple of NiMH batteries with a recharger. About the only downside I&#8217;m seeing so far is that there&#8217;s no power-off switch on the mouse itself; hopefully it&#8217;ll give up trying to pair when the computer&#8217;s asleep, and enter a standby mode. If not, I&#8217;ve still got my soldering iron from the old days at home. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In practice, both my hopefully soon to-be-sold PowerBook and my new iMac G5 have built-in bluetooth, so the adapter will travel around with the iBook. I&#8217;ve never really gotten as precise with a trackpad as with a mouse, so this will be a great help. The list price is $109.99, but I got it for $30 less.<\/p>\n<p>As for the RAM, it worked great, despite being a lesser-known brand. It was twice as expensive as current RAM, but being for a discontinued model, that was to be expected. If anyone at WWDC reading this needs a working RAM module for an old white iBook (256MB, SODIMM, PC133-333) please tell me. I&#8217;m asking about $90. I&#8217;ll also be selling a brand-new, never-used, 512MB RAM module for the new iMac G5; I believe it&#8217;s PC3200-400 DDR SDRAM, Apple RAM, and should be worth around $110.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stay at the hotel until after lunch, then I&#8217;ll take the BART over to Moscone Center to sign in; I&#8217;ll hang around there between 5 and 7 PM, if anyone wants to meet up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a fun but tiring day wandering around the downtown area and doing some shopping. I ended up buying a RAM expansion for the iBook (600MHz, dual USB) I&#8217;m typing this on, and a Belkin F8T041-B bluetooth mouse. This mouse has 4 buttons, a scrolll wheel and it&#8217;s quite larger than the mice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-travel","tag-wwdc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-uk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}