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I will also use this with my laptop. Using skype cordless and even watching porn on the road, so I think it's safer to stick to a head set.



I have worked with a friend to try to get this working (using same bluetooth headsets with his phone as with his pc), and eventually we just gave up and went with corded headsets and non-bluetooth wireless headsets (like the Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless headset).

To get decent bluetooth functionality on Windows, you need an added bluetooth stack. The best one we could find was the BlueSoleil one. They have been improving it over time, and the most recent one we used was miles ahead of one of the earlier versions we had tried (including dedicated Skype functionality), but it is a long way from the effortless bluetooth experience you are familiar with between headsets and mobile phones. The experience was flaky at best when we gave up about six months ago -- sometimes would work perfectly; other times would have problems re-pairing with the computer. This was with multiple mobile phone-style bluetooth earpieces, larger headphone-sized headsets, and multiple bluetooth transmitters (onboard on laptops, external dongles).

Someone else may have had better mileage, but the shortest distance between two points for us was a corded headset, rather than getting a workable configuration between our existing pc's and bluetooth earpieces from our phones.

(I will say that the Mac OS X built-in bluetooth stack seemed far more versatile and seemed to 'just work' like everything else on the Mac.)