Comments on: The REAL Cost of Owning Wireless Mice and Keyboards http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html The offbeat personal finance blog for responsible people. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Carnival of Money Hackers – 82st Edition http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-824 Carnival of Money Hackers – 82st Edition Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-824 [...] Penzo presents The REAL Cost of Owning Wireless Mice and Keyboards posted at Len Penzo . Com, saying, “Just how much can you expect to spend in batteries for [...] [...] Penzo presents The REAL Cost of Owning Wireless Mice and Keyboards posted at Len Penzo . Com, saying, “Just how much can you expect to spend in batteries for [...]

]]> By: Friday Finance Round Up – September 18, 2009 « Redeeming Riches http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-825 Friday Finance Round Up – September 18, 2009 « Redeeming Riches Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-825 [...] The REAL Costs of Owning Wireless Mice & Keyboards - Len Penzo [...] [...] The REAL Costs of Owning Wireless Mice & Keyboards – Len Penzo [...]

]]> By: How to Lower Your Cable Bill http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-826 How to Lower Your Cable Bill Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-826 [...] The REAL Cost of Owning Wireless Mice and Keyboards. Ahh, the high cost of batteries… but it is more economical to buy rechargeables , or use the disposable? [...] [...] The REAL Cost of Owning Wireless Mice and Keyboards. Ahh, the high cost of batteries… but it is more economical to buy rechargeables , or use the disposable? [...]

]]> By: Justin http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-827 Justin Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-827 Or, you know, you could help out the environment buying rechargeable batteries when you know you'll go through a bunch of them as in wireless mouse/keyboards. Just because your saving a few bucks doesn't mean it makes sense. Think about the environment you're leaving behind for your children. "I'm sorry Timmy, I care more about a few bones than the environment you'll be growing up in and later raising your children in". How about teaching everyone a little bit of environmental courtesy? Or, you know, you could help out the environment buying rechargeable batteries when you know you’ll go through a bunch of them as in wireless mouse/keyboards.

Just because your saving a few bucks doesn’t mean it makes sense. Think about the environment you’re leaving behind for your children. “I’m sorry Timmy, I care more about a few bones than the environment you’ll be growing up in and later raising your children in”.

How about teaching everyone a little bit of environmental courtesy?

]]> By: Len Penzo http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-828 Len Penzo Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-828 Sorry, Justin, but it is not my job to teach everyone about environmental courtesy. This is a personal finance blog, where the almighty dollar (pound, euro, etc.) rules. Readers looking for tutorials on environmental courtesy can always use their rechargeable battery-powered mice and keyboards and click themselves over to Earth First!, the Earth Liberation Front, or any of those other save-the-earth groups. Sorry, Justin, but it is not my job to teach everyone about environmental courtesy. This is a personal finance blog, where the almighty dollar (pound, euro, etc.) rules.

Readers looking for tutorials on environmental courtesy can always use their rechargeable battery-powered mice and keyboards and click themselves over to Earth First!, the Earth Liberation Front, or any of those other save-the-earth groups.

]]> By: Friday Finance Round Up – September 18, 2009 | Redeeming Riches http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-829 Friday Finance Round Up – September 18, 2009 | Redeeming Riches Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-829 [...] The REAL Costs of Owning Wireless Mice & Keyboards - Len Penzo [...] [...] The REAL Costs of Owning Wireless Mice & Keyboards – Len Penzo [...]

]]> By: Ben http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-830 Ben Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-830 What kind of mouse do you have? I have a standard Microsoft optical wireless mouse (not a laser one) and use it 8+ hours a day as a software engineer, 5 days a week, and change my 2 AA batteries in it roughly once a year. What kind of mouse do you have? I have a standard Microsoft optical wireless mouse (not a laser one) and use it 8+ hours a day as a software engineer, 5 days a week, and change my 2 AA batteries in it roughly once a year.

]]> By: Len Penzo http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-831 Len Penzo Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-831 I am using a laser-based Apple Mighty Mouse. My usage estimate was very conservative. If I were to try and get more accurate, I would say between the wife and I, our mouse is used closer to 12 hours per day on the weekdays and 15 hours per day on most weekends. I am using a laser-based Apple Mighty Mouse.

My usage estimate was very conservative. If I were to try and get more accurate, I would say between the wife and I, our mouse is used closer to 12 hours per day on the weekdays and 15 hours per day on most weekends.

]]> By: Layla http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-832 Layla Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-832 Hm! I take back the 'you were lucky' statement - 18 + 28 batteries is 46 batteries in landfill because you are not sure you would live for 5 years more to justify the cost?? Where do you live? California and EU require batteries to be handled separately because of the toxics in them. Why don't you just throw away the Honeybee then, but keep the reusable option? ;) And do you always throw your plates and pants away too, or simply wash and reuse? What you write is interesting, but it is also SAD. Because in a world we live in I would wish for reusable and more environmentally friendly things to financially make sense too. And aside from the debate, we had a wireless mouse and then replaced it with a wired one again, as it was more reliable at all moments. I expect that option would also be the most cost effective, hmm? Hm!

I take back the ‘you were lucky’ statement – 18 + 28 batteries is 46 batteries in landfill because you are not sure you would live for 5 years more to justify the cost??

Where do you live? California and EU require batteries to be handled separately because of the toxics in them.

Why don’t you just throw away the Honeybee then, but keep the reusable option? ;)

And do you always throw your plates and pants away too, or simply wash and reuse?

What you write is interesting, but it is also SAD. Because in a world we live in I would wish for reusable and more environmentally friendly things to financially make sense too.

And aside from the debate, we had a wireless mouse and then replaced it with a wired one again, as it was more reliable at all moments. I expect that option would also be the most cost effective, hmm?

]]> By: Len Penzo http://lenpenzo.com/blog/id708-the-real-cost-of-owning-wireless-mice-and-keyboards.html#comment-833 Len Penzo Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:48:56 +0000 http://lenpenzo.com/blog/?p=708#comment-833 I'll try and address each of your points - just not in the order you presented them: 1. It's not so much that I am not sure <em>I</em> would live five more years, Layla. It's more that I'm not sure that the <em>rechargeable batteries</em> and/or <em>charger</em> would live the five years. 2. Yes, obviously, a wired mouse will have lower operational and maintenance costs than a wireless mouse; after all, the cost of batteries for a wired mouse is $0.00 over the life of the mouse. You got me there, Layla! LOL 3. Now, to try and equate pants and plates to batteries is so ridiculous that I won't even bother explaining how disjointed those analogies are. 4. Last but not least... I too, Layla, would wish for reusable and more environmentally friendly things to financially make sense - but that is not usually how it works. What I won't do, is distort the facts to fit the utopian/environntalist agenda - like the Global Warming academics were recently shown to have done. Now that is SAD. I’ll try and address each of your points – just not in the order you presented them:

1. It’s not so much that I am not sure I would live five more years, Layla. It’s more that I’m not sure that the rechargeable batteries and/or charger would live the five years.

2. Yes, obviously, a wired mouse will have lower operational and maintenance costs than a wireless mouse; after all, the cost of batteries for a wired mouse is $0.00 over the life of the mouse. You got me there, Layla! LOL

3. Now, to try and equate pants and plates to batteries is so ridiculous that I won’t even bother explaining how disjointed those analogies are.

4. Last but not least… I too, Layla, would wish for reusable and more environmentally friendly things to financially make sense – but that is not usually how it works. What I won’t do, is distort the facts to fit the utopian/environntalist agenda – like the Global Warming academics were recently shown to have done. Now that is SAD.

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