New Alu Wireless keyboard battery life

[igeoff]

Hi, I've had my new style wireless keyboard for a week now & the batteries it came with (3 AA's) have died after 5 days of light use (just emails & surfing the web) is this normal? (maybe it was in storage a while?) the wireless mighty mouse i bought at the same time is showing full battery??, I have gone out today and bought a charger with 4 AA's so this will save on buying batteries, Not really worried just wondered if anyone has had their keyboard a while & can let me know how long they last on average, Also apart from the usual preference is there any way of changing the power save mode on the keyboard?.

Cheers

Geoff

 

[cwa107]

I didn't use the batteries that came with it as they were cheesy Chinese-sweatshop-made junk. But on decent batteries (Energizer, in my case), I've gone 6 months on a single set with daily use. I never turn it off either, just throw it in the drawer when I take my MacBook Pro off my desk at work.

 

[eddielee]

Same... on good battery's both my keyboard and mouse last ages...

The cheap ones that came with it did only give me about a week or so thought.

 

[halchess]

I'm having a terrible time with batteries. I've had my iMac since April 09 and am on my third set of keyboard batteries. I just replaced them 2 weeks ago and they are drained again. I am not a heavy user either. Maybe a couple of hours a day. I am going back to lithium batteries this time a see what happens. I think they should be lasting longer.