Chris Astall

Having just purchased a new Bluetooth headset, the Jabra Clipper, and successfully paired it with my iPad and Mobile Phone I thought that I would pair it with my Laptop and Desktop. Initially i thought this would be easy. However, after an initial pairing and the device showing up in the Bluetooth Devices Windows reported that there were no drivers!

After some searching and reading a number of articles I found that Microsoft, in there wisdom, dropped A2DP support from Windows 7, expecting hardware manufacturures to supply the drivers. All very well but how to find them.

My laptop, a Lenovo T61p, was relatively easy as installing the latest Lenovo Bluetooth drivers fixed the problem. The headset connected fine and can be used for listening to music, making Skype calls and using GotoMeeting. 

Getting things working on the PC was a little more difficult as my bluetooth dongle was supplied with with my Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 7000 and came with no A2DP drivers. Searching around on the web it seemed that I needed to install the Broadcom drivers (Windows Vista/7 (32/64bit) (Broadcom Generic) - v6.2.0.9700) with would add the A2DP profile to the Bluetooth stack. After installing these everything is working fine. 

A college sent me this picture from 1956 of the first Hard Disk IBM put into a super computer. It was 5MB!

Well UPS tried to deliver it Thursday night at 19:20, but Janet was bathing Magnus and I was still at work so didn't have it for Friday. Was really hoping Janet would be in to take delivery Friday and was very happy when I got home to find they hadn't tried yet and then sure enough an hour or so later there was a ring at the door and there it was my new iPad.

Firsthand impressions are very positive. Have set up mail with the Exchange server and all sears to work very well. Have downloaded a number of iPad specific apps such as Aim and Tweetdeck and they work well on the larger screen. The iPhone apps work ok and don't look too bad when upscaled but it will still be nice to see more iPad native versions come out, this Squarespace app would be one as the website doesn't work well with Safari on the iPad.

Some other small grips. The iPad does not seem to charge with A standard iPod charger which is a shame as I have a number. Also No Orange 3G card arrived so had to order that from Orange and will have to wait until the 7th June!

Overall very pleased and look forward to many a happy hour with it.

Its been despatched. Hopefully will arrive before the weekend!