How necessary is bluetooth?

I am buying a new laptop and am constantly given the option to upgrade to be bluetooth capable, however, i really have no idea what this means for me to know if it is a smart buy. I know i can use things such as a wireless mouse (probably useless to me) or something with a phone (again, useless to me), and not sure what else it can do now/near future. So for the average user is bluetooth mostly just a waste?

 

I have bluetooth. Guess how many times I have used it? NEVER! lol I thought I would get a bluetooth mouse but they cost too much. Oh well...
Tim

 

i got my dell E1505 with bluetooth just as a last minute thought since it was only $15 more and i am extremely thankful i did. i bought a logitech V270 mouse with bluetooth because i would hate having a usb receiver sticking out of my computer. it only cost $35 which is reasonable for a wireless mouse i have had the mouse for a month now and the batteries are still going fine. it is actually so efficient that i can take one of the batteries out and it still works so i can make it lighter.
hope this helps

 

bluetooth is designed for short range wireless communication. think of it as the next gen IR. it's used for connecting to mice, phones, pdas, etc. if you have a use for this (and it's very useful if you do), then you want the upgrade. if you do not use a bluetooth mouse or sync your cel phone / pda to your computer, then you probably don't need it.

 

Sync cell phone to computer? For what purpose? I've been wondering what sorts of things one could do by linking the cell phone up to one's notebook or PC.

 

By connecting to a cellphone you can use it as a modem thus getting internet areas where you wouldnt have gotten internet before.

 

Also handy for transferring ringtones, apps and most importantly... your phonebook. Considering how many of us keep all our phone numbers on our cellphone, imagine if it was lost or stolen...

I've got a bluetooth dongle on my PC and use it to back up my phonebook at least once a month.

If the upgrade isn't excessively priced, I'd go for it. Better to have it onboard than rely on an ugly dongle (which can be lost!) if you need it down the track.

 

It really depends , if you're a mobile guy or not. As for me , it becomes handy whenever i need to transfer my pics from my phone [which runs windows mobile] to my mac...as you cant use activesync on mac..other then tha , i dont have any use

 

Now that I have a phone that's capable of this bluetooth is absolutely a necessity. This past weekend I was in a hotel with 'free wireless' but like most hotels the free wireless was slower than my phone using GPRS.

 

I've grown to love bluetooth. I use it to transfer games/pics/songs/ringtones and address book to/from my cellphone. Also use it with my motorola BT stereo headphones and Motorola BT stereo transceiver to stream mp3's to my home stereo. It also can be used as a quick way to network two computers and even wireless printing. Very useful, but BT devices can be a little spendy.

 

my msi ms-1022 has it pre-installed but i have not used it often. so for me at the moment, i can do without it. although of course it is becoming standard now in many up and coming notebooks. still BT peripherals currently available like mouse and keyboard have their price equivalent in gold. expensive!

 

As of now, not much for me, my current cell is old and needs to be replaced(which will be in December LOL!), and nothing else that has BT seems to interest me. Rather, the BT accessories now aren't of real use, and if they are, they aren't good at what they are supposed to do.