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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1950010" data-attributes="member: 396914">You move the iMac? I'm slightly confused by that sentence.But does he move his phone? Or his mouse? Or his wireless trackpad? Or the remote control for the TV? And the interference pattern changes when his TV is change from OFF to ON, and the other way. It's a transmitter. To transmit, it has circuitry that has to have relatively high current flow through electronic components to get the signal to the antenna to transmit it. Those components can, over time, become less efficient and the resulting signal decline. All it takes is a little roll-off and the entire signa/noise ratio will change. Do other circuits decline? Yes, but the decline is usually very slow and goes unnoticed. The LEDs in the screen can very slowly grow dimmer over time. We either fail to notice the decline, or we just turn the brightness up a bit and blame it on growing older and our eyes needing brighter screens. Then we get a new screen and are startled at the brightness of it! It's called entropy, and every system suffers from it. And the trackpad and mouse could be interfering with each other, too. Make sure to turn off the one you are NOT using so that the other device has full control of the cursor logic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1950010, member: 396914"] You move the iMac? I'm slightly confused by that sentence. But does he move his phone? Or his mouse? Or his wireless trackpad? Or the remote control for the TV? And the interference pattern changes when his TV is change from OFF to ON, and the other way. It's a transmitter. To transmit, it has circuitry that has to have relatively high current flow through electronic components to get the signal to the antenna to transmit it. Those components can, over time, become less efficient and the resulting signal decline. All it takes is a little roll-off and the entire signa/noise ratio will change. Do other circuits decline? Yes, but the decline is usually very slow and goes unnoticed. The LEDs in the screen can very slowly grow dimmer over time. We either fail to notice the decline, or we just turn the brightness up a bit and blame it on growing older and our eyes needing brighter screens. Then we get a new screen and are startled at the brightness of it! It's called entropy, and every system suffers from it. And the trackpad and mouse could be interfering with each other, too. Make sure to turn off the one you are NOT using so that the other device has full control of the cursor logic. [/QUOTE]

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