Reasons to never buy wireless keyboards and mouse

[TequilaClock]

• They defecate your batteries
• "CHANGE YOUR MOUSE BATTERIES" pop up every time even when it still got like 12 more hours left, fuck that
• Is not like I am going to type from another room.
• Hey look I could swear I had more money on my wallet, oh that's right I had to buy more fucking batteries!
• Rechargeable batteries wont compensate that as they get weaker by the time.
• Oops shit, Timmy can't stop throwing the mouse accidentally and it doesnt have a wire to be rescued. Now its more beaten than an abused wife.
• Oh yeah even if its wireless you have to target really accurate to the stupid receptor.

Nutshell: Wireless gear sucks. USB4lyf.

AGH

[catclock]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks this way >w

[super0sonic]

I have always used wired keyboards but wireless mice are nice. I used a wireless mouse on my desktop for years but then i fell in love with the microsoft sidewinder mouse and that is wired. But i still use a wireless mouse on my laptop becuse its so easy. I can slide the wireless recever into the bottom of my mouse and that will shut it off when not in use, makeing the single AA battrey last over half a year.

[joliet_jane]

Lord.  The battery issue is always coming up at work.  We never have enough because of the stupid wireless set.

The pointer accuracy is what bothers me the most.  I can browse, but trying to work in Flash with a wireless mouse is a bitch.

[DiscoBallClock]

I agree, USB for life.

[joliet_jane]

I agree, USB for life.

Or ps/2

[Flounderpa]

I only use wireless mouse because I have a wire clusterfuck behind the computer

[GreyClock]

Then again they shit batteries so your battery problem is solved.

[SpongeClock SquarePants]

reason 100: Only geeks use wireless keyboards and other stuff

[Solenoidclock]

Or ps/2

5-pin DIN > ps/2 or USB for keyboards because they don't need a shift register and the IBM ones are clicky like electric typewriters, which sounds like it might be bad but the feedback is pure joy.

Serial > anything for mice because there is absolutely no latency, which gives a huge edge against modern gamers and their $30+ mice.

[joliet_jane]

5-pin DIN > ps/2 or USB for keyboards because they don't need a shift register and the IBM ones are clicky like electric typewriters, which sounds like it might be bad but the feedback is pure joy.

I have a ps/2 IBM Model M for my old computer.  It does feel very nice on the fingers.

Serial > anything for mice because there is absolutely no latency, which gives a huge edge against modern gamers and their $30+ mice.

That I did not know.

[BunnyClock]

I guess someone wasn't smart enough to buy a wireless mouse with a recharge bay.

Yea I never have trouble with my wireless mouse, and I haven't had to switch batteries for my keyboard in over two years :\

[TequilaClock]

I guess someone wasn't smart enough to buy a wireless mouse with a recharge bay.

I didnt bought it in forst place

[poopbutt]

Hey I have them and they work just fine but maybe because I use a mac

[HeinekenClock]

Hey I have them and they work just fine but maybe because I use a mac

Is there a way you can make the forums autopermaban anyone who uses the phrase "because I use a mac/pc"?

Also bluetooth gear is pretty accurate I hear, some of my classmates use it. I think it doesn't even require batteries, but I'm not sure about that.

[TequilaClock]

maybe because I use a mac

and that means?

[poopbutt]

and that means?

that tey are different and work different gosh now leave me to rot away in the bottomless depths of my mind.  Captured  by pure will trapped  inside to come out when ready and I shall never be ready. To rot alone with none but my self to wonder what might of been and what would have been for eons until one unknown day I lye awake now in a cold sweat in the next day and know it was all real yet wonder about WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!!??

[SnakeClock]

that tey are different and work different gosh now leave me to rot away in the bottomless depths of my mind.  Captured  by pure will trapped  inside to come out when ready and I shall never be ready. To rot alone with none but my self to wonder what might of been and what would have been for eons until one unknown day I lye awake now in a cold sweat in the next day and know it was all real yet wonder about WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!!??

Whoa, what? Deep, man.

Though you are acting like kind of a rabid Macophile. Don't embarrass yourself.

But I agree. Wireless should stay in the realm of game controllers, where thrashing them around is kind of a given.

[TequilaClock]

that tey are different and work different gosh now leave me to rot away in the bottomless depths of my mind.  Captured  by pure will trapped  inside to come out when ready and I shall never be ready. To rot alone with none but my self to wonder what might of been and what would have been for eons until one unknown day I lye awake now in a cold sweat in the next day and know it was all real yet wonder about WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!!??

Dude... I just asked.. nevermind.

[IvysaurClock]

They're a shitload more expensive, and they don't work nearly as well. I've got a wireless keyboard at work, and I constantly type too fast for it so it fucking drops out the letters it missed and my sentence ends up being unreadable.