On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:48:19AM -0400, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:For many users, the easiest and cheapest way to get one is probably to go to the MIT Flea and buy an old keyboard -- one made long enough ago not to have Windows keys. That won't help if you need a USB keyboard.
So get an Apple or Sun USB keyboard.
But the bottom row of keys behaves funny when you plug an Apple keyboard into a PC (or, for that matter, a PC keyboard into a Mac). The same keys are all still there, but not in the same order, so you end up having to ignore the labels and any existing finger memory and get used to how the keyboard actually behaves.
This is fun for a while, but gets old fast. What's the point? If you don't happen to have one laying around already, Mac-compatible keyboards are almost always more expensive than generic PC ones, so between the cost and the annoyance it hardly seems worth it to buy one for this.
I still think the easiest way is to just get used to the Windows key -- anything that makes Windows a little more pleasant is worth it -- but who am I to talk -- I'm a Mac user anyway :-)
-- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/
np: 'Mr. Lucky'
by Henry Mancini
from 'The Best Of Mancini'
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