I had enough of this and this morning I went to a local electronic dealer and bought a “SpeedLink VIAS NANO BLUETOOTH® USB Adapter”. There was a Mac logo on this package, so I thought: Ok – for 15€ worth a try.

Back home, I opened the Mac Pro, removed the CPU tray and the popped out the BT cable to this little tiny daughterboard. I used the chance to install the 32GB OCZ SSD that I had removed from the Mac mini “Belldandy” a few days ago (and had placed an Intel 80GB SSD into it) as 2nd “Optical Bay” drive. Usage of this small storage? Well – Scratch Photoshop loves scratch drives and I thought it makes more sense to use it for this than having it laying around in the rack.

When this was done, I simply put the small “NANO” USB stick into the side USB bay of my HP screen.

I know that “sleep” could become a bit of a problem, but since my Mac Pro always decides to wake up in the middle of the night, I normally turn it off completely. So that’s not an issue.

When booting into Snow Leopard the first time, it presented me a windows with the information that no mouse, trackpad nor keyboard was found. Ok – sure! They were still bond to the internal BT stuff which is now disconnected. After turning off & on the Magic Mouse and removing and putting back in the batteries of the keyboard, everything worked flawlessly! I’m very surprised how fast this little Magic Mouse could be and just now notice how bad the connection must have been before. Very surprising, because of the huge antenna, but well – this issue is now solved for a very good price

PS. For the Planet Debian users: I have now installed an RSS Plugin that should resize all photos to a width of 300px. I hope this works!

[Update: Keyboard issues]
If you’re willing to reset & re-pair your BT keyboard everytime you reboot your machine, don’t worry. But if you tend to shut down your Mac Pro every evening (like I do) – be warned. I couldn’t find a way to connect to my BT keyboard automatically. The weird thing is: The Magic Mouse & Magic Trackpad are working great – no need to re-pair them to the USB-BT-Stick. As I don’t care that much and luckily had a small USB keyboard laying around, I stopped looking for a solution after 1h, attached the USB keyboard and done with this issue – but it’s strange, that this USB-BT-stick works fine with the pointing devices but not with the keyboard.

I’ve also seen this happening sometimes on my iMac 27″ back in the mid of last year (before it was trade in for the Mac Pro) and also my wifes iMac i3 21.5″ sometimes had this issues – means: you have to remove the batteries, put them back in and re-pair the connection between the Macs BlueTooth and the BT keyboard. (Btw. revision of all our keyboard are A1314).

So we went to the re:Store in the CentrO. Oberhausen and bought 3 fancy things:

The already mentioned (pretty expensive in my mind) MiniDisplayPort to Dual Link DVI adapter to be able to connect my MacBook to the 30″ Cinema HD display, a Magic Mouse (yey!) and a BT wireless keyboard (wohooo!).

For my surprise, when I moved the stuff out of the bag, I saw that the sales guy has NOT booked the keyboard, but the VESA adapter for the Cinema display I was asking for (too bad, it will not fit to my new LX arm from Ergotron, because it’s too heavy). As result of this wrong scanning, I’ve saved 40 Euros + 5 Euro shorting on my request

More soon!

Ciao
Dennis