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Not a good move. Bought this from Office Depot. When I came back to my computer, I saw a very bent adapter. It worked fine with my wireless Bluetooth mouse. While I was charging my laptop, I forgot the adapter was in and set the computer down on its side. Couldn't get it to work afterwards. I'm now gonna buy a microadapter that doesn't stick out so far.
In the end, this adapter did what I bought it for. So I rebooted the computer, then plugged the adapter in again.
The package clearly states it is both PC and Mac compatible, but the instruction booklet inside the package said absolutely nothing about using it with a Mac. The mini-CD containing the driver inside the package also made no mention of a Mac.
I bought this Bluetooth adapter to transfer small music files (OK, ringtones) from my PowerMac G4 to my Nokia 6085 phone. After about two minutes of that nonsense, I unplugged the adapter.and the mouse still didn't work.
So, I just plugged the darn thing into a USB port--and my mouse stopped working. A dialog box popped up stating that the adapter was looking for a Bluetooth-compatible mouse (which I don't have).
This time, my Mac instantly recognized the adapter, allowing me to easily and quickly transfer files from my Mac to my phone with no problems. Time will tell if it holds up through the 1 year warranty and beyond.
Good things about this Bluetooth Adapter:1. So although I can say more good things about the product than bad, I think that the items under "bad" are a bit more important. It techincally works6.
It's got a cap to protect the USB end3. It makes me wax nostolgic about our family's original computer: which had a whopping 4 Megahertz (i.e., the adapter is REALLY slow)2. It's tiny2.
Best Buy will take it as a returnBad things about this Bluetooth Adapter1. It's got a cool little LED4. It's kind of shiny5.
It is not even SORT of plug-n-play - there's not a lot of software to load, but you have to load software from a CD. I suppose if you're only transferring tiny files through the Bluetooth adapter it will work just fine.otherwise look for something else.
I was expecting this to be a major hassle, given all the bad reviews of BT dongles out there, but I was able to link up and share files between my sony ericsson w810i and my Dell Inspiron 6000 within ten minutes of opening the box. As far as I can tell from the extremely fast data transfer rate, however, the claim on the packaging seems to be true.I will be receiving my bluetooth stereo headphones in a few days. This is the main reason I bought the dongle, so if it doesn't work, back to the store it goes.**Edit**Well, I received my headphones, and it turns out that it does support A2DP, but the connection with the headphones stinks. This thing works very well in my PC environment, and doesn't saddle you with any useless or unnecessary "cute" applications. This thing is okay for data, but if you want to use it to broadcast to stereo headphones, beware.If I could change my rating, I'd change it to a 3. One caveat on the software, however. So far, no problems at all (and none of the problems I've heard of from reviews of the Kensington device). Hopefully, the package is right and I'll be able to stream music from my laptop.
I can see where it would be confusing to those who are not at least reasonably computer savvy, with some experience in BT jargon, too. It's definitely not plug n' play, but it is intuitive to some extent.The weird thing is, the packaging (at least for the product I bought at Best Buy) says that it is Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, and that it supports the A2DP stereo profile, but I can't find anything on the Targus website or in the included documentation to support this claim. I hear sound for only a few seconds at a time before it cuts out for large gaps. Back to the store it goes.
In terms of plug and play, I plugged the device in and it immediately popped up an error saying that my keyboard was not recognized and to click Continue to proceed without recognition. Purchased this today. The only problem was, the device disabled both my mousepad and my keyboard so I had no way to continue. Package states that it is compatible with Mac OS X and with both 1.x and 2.x USB ports. However no Mac drivers are included on the CD, only Windows drivers. This product is useless for OS X users on MacBookPro/Intel-based laptops. I will be returning it.
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