not really. new version bring more bandwidth and sometimes new features. you'll have to look and see if its worth it to you. keyboards, mice and the like that use bluetooth don't need the bandwidth available now. so it's unlikely you need to upgrade. bluetooth does support data transfer but it's not a good choice in any way really. so many other ways to swap data rather than the slow bluetooth Method 2: I would suggest you to uninstall the old Bluetooth drivers from device manager and reinstall latest Windows 8.1 drivers from Asus website and check: Press Windows key + X. Click on Device manager. Search for Bluetooth drivers right click on it and select uninstall. Restart the computer download the latest Bluetooth drivers from your In the search box on the taskbar, type Device Manager, select it from the list of results, and then expand Bluetooth in Device Manager. Press and hold (or right-click) the Bluetooth radio, then select Update driver > Search automatically for updated driver software. Don't see it listed under Settings > Devices. Tried a couple of things, like checking bluetooth services were on, restarting, etc. to no avail. Trying to connect with a Bose Colorlink bluetooth speaker. on my Asus laptop i have a Bluetooth icon on the top right and. dmesg | grep Blue Gets: [ 3.757769] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 [ 3.757798] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 3.757802] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 3.757805] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 3.757814] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 3.767297] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB The following image shows the list. ONLY the ones with red (underscore) have Bluetooth, others don't. Looks like your machine is very close to my old loam machine: does NOT have Bluetooth (under $10 option). If you wish, you can buy a USB Bluetooth dongle for around $15. To access it, right-click the Start button or hit Win + X, then choose Device Manager from the resulting menu. In the list of devices under your computer name, you'll see a Bluetooth entry if your laptop or desktop has Bluetooth. If you don't see this, then your computer doesn't have Bluetooth built in. See our guide to fixing Bluetooth in To check if your PC has Bluetooth, do the following: Press the Windows key + X or right-click Start , to open the Win + X menu. Select Device Manager on that menu to open the window. Right-click opTky.