Wired mouse still needed for emergencies?

I bought my iMac with wired mouse and keyboard but later bought the bluetooth ones. Very nice. It appears I can do away with the wired keyboard, but there are circumstances when the BT Mighty Mouse does not work, such as when booted from a system disk (OS X install DVD). At those times I have to get out the old mouse and plug it in. I reckon the wireless mouse should work at all times, or forget about it.

Hi Jeffrey Shaw-
I actually have a wired keyboard in addition to a mouse.
Just in case.
Luck-
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Full version:
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that creating the sources\WdsClientMetadata.txt with the data "WDS.Client.Multicast.WIM.Streaming.Enabled=true" gives me an error upon booting into WDS as follows (EUFI/IPv6-boot):
Same happens if I boot using IPv4 (an non-UEFI boot), except that there would be a plain IPv4-address instead in the error msg. Just for troubleshooting I tried writing WDS.Client.Multicast.WIM.Streaming.Enabled=false in the file instead, and WDS would throw
me the exact same error message. Once I delete the file sources\WdsClientMetadata.txt from the WDS/Boot image, the client boots ok, both for IPv4/IPv6. Disabling the firewall on the WDS didn't help, so something in the configuration is still missing? I'm getting
to a dead end here, and I suppose you're all out of advice on this one?
Thank you Shaon Shan for your great effort so far.

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Seems like the regular SLI is missing a few SATA ports, and that's it (perhaps some other minor differences I'm not seeing).
I may end up going with this board for him instead.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130484
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The differences between the SLI boards and vanilla Neo4 (with the exception of the onboard Creative) seem minimal at best. I don't see any glaring differences that stands out.

Man, I wish we had a definitive answer from MSI. I read this thread earlier today:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=e0a58bd39846e41ae63a3f38ebf05ecd&topic=80078.0
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[EDIT:] And then there's this thread here which says that newer boards don't have the -5V requirement.
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[EDIT2:] Found another one.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=913884&highlight=neo4
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Is premium still needed for group video calls?

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Additional BlackBerry service from provider still needed???

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Wired mouse for iMac

Hello Apple users,
I have a problem, i'm really not that keen on the Apple wired mouse.
Just doesn't feel nice in the hand for prolonged use.
Does anyone have recommendations for a good wired mouse that will work properly with the iMac and that i don't need 3rd party drivers to make it work better?
I have a SteelSeries Kana mouse but with the standard apple drivers it really doesn't work well.
i.e moving the tracking slider 1 notch is the difference between really slow & really fast.
I have tried using SteerMouse as 3rd party drivers, it helps but its still not very accurate especially for editing audio when accuracy is key.
Any help anyone can provide will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Beano.

I Guess someone has to do,the research for you
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http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/comfort-mouse-3000/S9J-00001
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/comfort-mouse-4500/4FD-00006
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/comfort-mouse-6000/S7J-00001
http://www.kensington.com/kensington/us/us/p/1592/K72369US/pro-fit%c2%ae-full-si ze-mouse-usb.aspx
http://www.macally.com/EN/?page_id=2237
http://www.macally.com/EN/?page_id=7551
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