Hmmm, Wish that it were, Ronni, unfortunately, that has not been my experience with the wireless keyboard - see my previous postings -thread to; <http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/msg57337.html>
where I found that the only way to connect the keyboard to the new computer was to unpair it from the old computer - otherwise the keyboard was not "discoverable". With that thread, my problem was changing computers - so when I found the solution, I left it at that. But I just got a wireless trackpad (tempted by Apple's one-day sale!) and noticed in the manual (yes, I read it!) that if you want to pair with another Mac you must first remove the existing pairing - and to do that you need access to the original (working) Mac. I agree that it doesn't seem to matter for the mouse - but it certainly mattered for the wireless keyboard and the manual seems to imply it will also be the same for the trackpad. On the other hand, it would seem unlikely that the keyboard/trackpad would be, essentially, "bricked" if (for whatever reason) you could not unpair it by doing so from it's original computer. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/12/10 12:46 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > You don't need to unpair it. > The computer is paired to the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Mouse but the > Keyboard & Magic Mouse has no knowledge of what computer it's paired to (or > even that it's been paired). > Just pair it to the new computer. > > I don't know about other bluetooth devices but the keyboard and mouse don't > care. > Pairing just tells the Mac to ignore other M/K uids and accept the input from > the paired M/K. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > On 01/12/2010, at 11:50 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm probably missing something obvious here, but... >> >> >> With the wireless keyboard and wireless trackpad, if you want to use them >> with another computer, you have to first unpair them from the current >> computer. >> >> What do you do if this is not possible - because, eg: >> >> The computer has died >> >> The computer has been stolen >> >> You've taken the keyboard/trackpad on holiday and forgot to unpair >> before you left. >> >> >> I would have thought there would be someway to "reset" the keyboard/trackpad >> to remove the pairing - but nothing is mentioned in the manuals for the >> keyboard/trackpad. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
