Magic Mouse & USB mouse together on one iMac?

New iMac with Magic Mouse works fine for me.
Mr H doesn't like the Magic Mouse and prefers our old Logitech USB wireless mouse with a receiver which is plugged into a USB port. (Mr H mostly uses the MBP, but when he uses the iMac he is unhappy with the MM) The Logitech mouse works fine with the iMac and the two work together - I just want to be sure I'm not confusing things by running both.
Is there any reason we can't keep the wireless receiver for the USB mouse plugged in so he can use that when he wants and I can use the Magic Mouse when I want? I should turn off the MM when I'm not using it and hopefully the setup assistant won't try to find it when it's turned off.
Thanks,
Mrs H

Kappy wrote:
I've use both without any issue leaving the Logitech's receiver plugged in and the mouse always turned on. The MM, however, I would turn off when using the Logitech. I did not notice any problems this way.
You shouldn't lose the BT connection unless the battery in the MM is dying. Otherwise, I would take the iMac in for warranty service because you should not have connection problems with BT.
Did I have a Helpful answer?
Yes, very helpful but now I'm puzzled/concerned about my BT and my brand new iMac!!
My bartery for the MM shows at 100% - we're talking brand new here.
When I finished writing to you above, I turned off the MM, disconnected the Logitech receiver, and let the iMac go to sleep.
I came back now (USB mouse not connected) tapped a key to wake up the iMac, and turned on the MM. It connected with no problem to BT and I am up and running.
i'm going to post this, plug in the USB received, turn off the MM, let the iMac go to sleep and come back and see what - I'll report back.
In case this helps with understanding what's going on - BT settings in syst pref for MM:
- BT box checked to ON, but Discoverable not checked - when it was checked it kept searching for new devices each time the iMac woke up.
-in Advanced options : only the first option do I have checked, open BT setup assistant at startup when no input device is present (I thought about unchecking that, but it asked me if I really wanted to do that implying that if I did and the connection was lost I'd be in trouble - so I left it checked) All others unchecked.
Any further ideas?
Mrs H

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