I bought my wireless keyboard and mouse for around £8.00 and the batteries last quite some time before I have to change them.

dawnbreak wrote: wires are a conspiracy dawn. cut em off

Still working!

Well they finally died, I did squeeze an extra 24 hrs out by swapping the batteries around though.

Sidebar:

Why is internet so much faster and cheaper over there?

Is it subsidized?

If so, enjoy while that party lasts, because it will become deregulated like everything else in USA, and prices will go through the roof. Just sayin'.

I can't find prices comparable to yours unless I go super dial up, which is less than average DSl. In other words, I won't be able to watch a YT for several hours until it finishes downloading unless I pay at least $60 bucks/month (38.6397 GBP or 48.4473 EUR).

I used to have some old micro$oft wireless mouse... That was incredible piece of tech in terms of power usage. I got for free from my friend, I used the same batteries over year and half before needed to change them. And those were already used somewhat.