Bluetooth keyboard compatible with Powermac G4?
Can I use a Bluetooth Keyboard (model iWantit IKBBTWH13) with a Powermac G4. If not, any suggestions, apart from throwing away the Mac? Thanks.
PowerMac
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Can I use a Bluetooth Keyboard (model iWantit IKBBTWH13) with a Powermac G4. If not, any suggestions, apart from throwing away the Mac? Thanks.
PowerMac
Hi, does your G4 have BT built-in now?
You can purchase a USB Bluetooth adapter that can give a PowerMac G4 Bluetooth connective capabilites.
Here are a few.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/IOGear/GBU321/
I haven't tried that keyboard but I have used a currant model of Apple keyboard and trackpad with a G4 that had bluetooth.
I should mention that the trackpad only worked as a pointing and clicking device, no gestures or two finger clicking
That is because older versions of OS X had no programming for getstures as there wre no Bluetooth input devices back then.
Bluetooth was a factory option on the firewire 800 MDD G4s. But as far as I know all the existing trackpads were only capable of point and click so that's all the OS supports even if you upgraded to 10.5 which was the newest PPCs could run. If someone wrote a driver then that'd change. Was hoping that'd happen when the magic trackpad first came out. Since it didn't I guess it never will.
Hhmm.
Interesting. That was THE only G4 tower model that was given the capability and option, though.
I have the earlier G4 with the 1.25 Ghz CPU model...no Bluetooth options.
Apple Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad
Apple's built-in Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad drivers use undocumented private APIs to forward multitouch gestures to the OS. I've been talking to Apple for a long time about this, but it looks like multitouch event generation is not going to be available to 3rd parties anytime soon. Since multitouch gestures are more important than any other additional setting, the USB Overdrive is now leaving the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad alone and no longer tries to handle them in any way.
Bluetooth keyboard compatible with Powermac G4?