On Jun 25, 5:28 am, Brian Christmas <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day > > I'm just in the process of buying my daughter a new 24" iMac, but she > doesn't like the Apple keyboards. > > Is there a 3rd part replacement that offers the same keys, or that can > be keymapped? > > Said keyboard should be suitable for a touch typist. > > Or, should I insist she uses the aluminium keyboard until she gets > used to it?
I have no idea how your daughter takes to "insistence." Do YOU use an aluminum keyboard? But she could be made aware that this old goat now loves his aluminum keyboard. It took a while. At first, I "kind-a" liked it and gave it up for an older, white keyboard that was given to me. I now use the white one on my iBook. And I put the aluminum one back on the iMac. I find that when I use the aluminum keyboard, I keep half my forearm flat on the desk. The keyboard is 8 inches/20 centimeters from the edge of the desk. That gives me the consistent positioning of the hands that I need. When I am on the white keyboard, I have to revert to the traditional floating arm approach. But I do best with the aluminum one. And I grew up with manual typewriters, and came through IBM Selectrics on the job. By the way, my sister came visiting a month ago, and she took to the aluminum keyboard like a duck to water. She had a career in business offices. Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
