Q: Keyboard & mouse extremely slow to respond to input
Since installing Mavericks, my bluetooth Apple mouse and keyboard are slow to respond, especially the keyboard. Typing is now a long tedious operation I call "click and wait." I can type a few letters and then sit and wait while the busy icon swirls away for seconds, then completes the letters I entered. This is unacceptable Apple! A computer without a keyboard is nothing more than a pretty dust collector.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion
Posted on Oct 30, 2013 10:19 AM
I have resolved my issue. I noticed that whenever I typed in any text box, everything slowed down and I got the spinning candy wheel of death. By accident one day, I right clicked the text box after this occured and noticed in the pop up that "check spelling & grammer" was checked for Apple's spelling checker. Since I run a system wide spelling application that I've used for years (when Apple did not offer one) I started to wonder if there was a conflict. Everytime I encounter the problem with any text box, I checked Apple's default by right clicking and turned off Apple's speller. VOILA Problem solved. Bad news is I had to do it to each text box in each website only once. No problems since. Now I just have to take the time to find Apple's speller and turn it off permanently for my situation. So whether the issue is completely with Apple's speller app or there is a conflict when both spellers are "turned on," I don't know. But this works in my situation. Not a mouse or keyboard problem at all.
Posted on Jul 25, 2014 7:24 AM
