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janitor
(experienced) Sun 18-Mar-18 13:02:46

2010 iMac upgrade Bluetooth

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Is it possible to use a usb dongle to upgrade my iMac to Bluetooth 4le.

TinyMongomery
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 18-Mar-18 13:23:10

Re: 2010 iMac upgrade Bluetooth

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Is there a particular reason why you wouid want the low-energy Bluetooth? It's not as if power consumption is a big deal in a desktop.

Anyway, there's a thread here that discusses forcing the use of a USB Bluetooth dongle: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/94402/forc...

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janitor
(experienced) Sun 18-Mar-18 13:50:24

Re: 2010 iMac upgrade Bluetooth

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Thank you for the reply, handoff, and a few other iMac iPad/iPhone sync programmes require Bluetooth 4le.

stniuk
(experienced) Mon 19-Mar-18 18:01:06

Re: 2010 iMac upgrade Bluetooth

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I bought a bt dongle a while back for my 09 Mac Pro.
It initially did work but was very unreliable. Sometimes it worked and other times it didn't. I gave up as I didn't really need the handoff functionality that much. They aren't expensive so if you need handoff it's worth a try.

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