Macbook, skype and bluetooth headset

I have had problems with Bluetooth headsets having a "buzzing" noise when connected to Intel Macs (which have Bluetooth 2.0), but they work perfectly on my G5 iMac (which has BlueTooth 1.0 or 1.1).

So I, too, am interested in a resolution to this problem!

I'm intrested too
i got a 220 Plantronics headset
i get it connected then i go to the sound settings and select the headset as the output and the input but the output doesn't work while the mic words fine
when i select the headset as the output the internal speakers stop making me think that the headset is going to start working but it doesn't so that there is no sound coming out anywhere
thx

As a diagnostic starting point, make sure that BOTH Skype setting and System settings are changed when you use your headset with Skype. Skype will not automatically change if you just change you system settings, so make sure to check both.

I have been having consistent problems with the microphone sound quality on a stream of bluetooth headsets, one plantronics, two motorola and now the new sony I just bought. Using skype, the person I call cannot make out what I am saying.

AFter many hours of research on the internet, including communication with Skype, who only answered that they no longer support bluetooth on macs, I can only say by a process of elimination it is a Mac OS problem, and one that for some reason has gone on for a long time, and Apple has not been able to solve.

I am back to using a headset to listen and the computers microphone, which is not very private. I can hear perfectly in most cases, but in an alarming number of calls, the other person can't make out what I am saying, being all jumbled, or cut off and with an intermittant echo.

I have gone through all the permutations, and in my reading have found that the other people who write of this problem, in desperation, have tested their sets with PC's and other phones and do not have the problem, only when they use Mac, and the description of the problem is the same as mine.

Evidently, not enough Mac users use skype with bluetooth to matter to Apple, who has no reference to this problem. There is a new thread going on over at the skype forums under mac on this very problem.

If anyone has a clue as to what is happening and why, please write it here, in detail so there is something authoritative people can turn to, and save hours of internet time leading to dead ends.

I had the same problem so I decided to have the bluetooth module changed before the warranty expired (fortunately the tech support guy was able to see the problem happening). That solved the problem for a few months, now it is back again. It has started very slowly, appearing and disappearing from time to time, but I'm sure this is going to get progressively worst (as if something has been slowly and steadily wearing out inside the BT module, ergo, hardware problem)

I am having the same problem. I bought 2 Motorola hdsts, and they are both really scratchy. Thanks for doing all the research. Now I don't have to research for hours on this subject. I will just have to go back to a hardwire headset until Apple fixes the problem. Not holding my breath. Thanks again.
John