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Posted by ding on Sat Feb 19th at 9:25pm 2005

Is it possible to use this keyboard with a Windows PC?

It says: 'The Apple Keyboard is the perfect complement to your USB-equipped Mac' and 'Important: Requires Mac OS X, v10.2 or higher.'

So do you know if it is possible to connect it on an USB port and use it with Windows?

Thanks in advance, ding.
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Posted by Crono on Sat Feb 19th at 9:47pm 2005

I'm fairly sure the ascii codes are the same ... so the normal keys should work ...

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2005/01/doublecommand/index.php

That article says you can use a Windows keyboard on a Mac, so I imagine it'll work the other way around. Why don't you just try it? [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sat Feb 19th at 10:17pm 2005

Why would you want to use a poxy Macintosh keyboard, of all things, when you can have one of these?



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Posted by Crono on Sun Feb 20th at 4:39am 2005

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Why would you want to use a poxy Macintosh keyboard, of all things, when you can have one of these?


disgusting [addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Feb 20th at 5:24am 2005

why would you want that blighted macintosh product to even be in the same room as a perfectly good REAL computer? Barring footrests and practice targets for elephant guns, I see no reason to even HAVE a mac. [addsig]



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Posted by Joe-Bob on Sun Feb 20th at 6:01am 2005

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Why would you want to use a poxy Macintosh keyboard, of all things, when you can have one of these?


Why can't those fancy keyboards at least get the backslash key in the right spot?




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Posted by Nickelplate on Sun Feb 20th at 6:18am 2005

? quoting Joe-Bob

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Why would you want to use a poxy Macintosh keyboard, of all things, when you can have one of these?


Why can't those fancy keyboards at least get the backslash key in the right spot?

YEAH!!! I've noticed that! It seems that any keyboard that has something desireable e.g. Light-up keys or wirelessness or anything else, will INVARIABLY have some sort of completely IDIOTIC key arrangement OR one of thoe big rounded bottoms for "ergonomicability" F that, gimme a NORMAL keyboard!

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Posted by Crono on Sun Feb 20th at 8:43am 2005

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why would you want that blighted macintosh product to even be in the same room as a perfectly good REAL computer? Barring footrests and practice targets for elephant guns, I see no reason to even HAVE a mac.


Besides them having better built and developed hardware. The architecture alone is substancially better then X86.

There's your reason. Development wise, they're very nice. However, you must realize I'm not talking about the software. OSX is alright, nothing bad, but it's still logically incorrect. It's difficult to reach the root user/directory because that's too advanced, yet, you used to have to allocate the amount of ram for each program ...

But the hardware is excellent. Make no mistake about that. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sun Feb 20th at 10:50am 2005

? quoting Crono
But the hardware is excellent. Make no mistake about that.

And more expensive, too. If you've got money to throw around you can still get better than Mac...





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Posted by RaPtoR on Sun Feb 20th at 1:17pm 2005

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Why would you want to use a poxy Macintosh keyboard, of all things, when you can have one of these?


Uuehhh... too many fancy buttons. No tnx, just the ordinary buttons for me. And they should be in the standard position too.
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Posted by Leperous on Sun Feb 20th at 1:43pm 2005

What, what is everyone on about with keys being "in the wrong place"? They are on that, except for the gap between the function ones and the insert/delete block... Anyway don't forget that the entire layout of a keyboard really needs changing- the key layout was designed to slow down people's typing on typewriters to stop the type elements from getting stuck together!



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Posted by fraggard on Sun Feb 20th at 2:17pm 2005

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What, what is everyone on about with keys being "in the wrong place"? They are on that, except for the gap between the function ones and the insert/delete block... Anyway don't forget that the entire layout of a keyboard really needs changing- the key layout was designed to slow down people's typing on typewriters to stop the type elements from getting stuck together!


While the second part is true, the first part is false. The QWERTY layout was designed to reduce the frequency of jams while typists could continue to type at their own speeds, or even increase their speeds. (http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/myths.html)




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Posted by Leperous on Sun Feb 20th at 2:56pm 2005

Er, yes it would help speed typists up by being arranged in that way and thus preventing keys from locking together, but still the point remains- if the keys are locking so much, then you will want to rearrange them so that often used key combos are fairly far apart from each other, or to slow the typist down somewhat.

But whatever, the point is that surely it's not the optimal key layout for a keyboard!





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Posted by LAzerMANiac on Sun Feb 20th at 7:13pm 2005

my dream keyboard:

easy to type in the dark and matches my IceMouse from Creative, which glows blue as well.
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Posted by parakeet on Mon Feb 21st at 2:49am 2005

<opinion> I got my keyboard for a healthy 9$ , It has the spring i need for gaming and also isnt plagued by buttons i almost never use. Its the like STANDARD original style keyboard with the windows key , { power key } , { Wake } , and {Sleep } buttons added

anything within the {}'s i personally removed with a screwdriver. my computer turned off one too many times by that blasted power button.

Its made by GE and is called the "smart keyboard" i find it beautifully perfect. </opinion>
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Posted by Nickelplate on Mon Feb 21st at 3:38am 2005

? quoting LAzerMANiac
my dream keyboard:

easy to type in the dark and matches my IceMouse from Creative, which glows blue as well.

I'VE ACTUALLY GOT ONE OF THESE! they're great. everyone get one. www.gameve.com has them for about $19

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Posted by ReNo on Mon Feb 21st at 3:58am 2005

I'm considering a new keyboard at the moment, though my current one does a decent enough job. My main reason for wanting to change is that I'd like some media keys - volume control in particular. My new headphones are brilliant but they don't have a volume control on them anywhere, meaning I have to either set volumes in programs or change it through my sound card settings (EAX control panel thingy). Not much of a problem when on the desktop I guess, but when gaming it is annoying to have to alt-tab out and adjust things. I'm thinking about the one you posted Lep, but does the volume control do the master volume of the computer, or just the wave/mp3/media player/whatever volume? Also, is it customisable to change the media buttons to run winamp controls as opposed to the standard media player ones? I can easily enough find out myself, but if you know...
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Posted by Foxpup on Mon Feb 21st at 4:44am 2005

I've got a keyboard with fancy media keys, but none of them work - only the regular keys work. It also used to have those useless Windows keys, but I removed them. [addsig]



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Posted by French Toast on Mon Feb 21st at 4:50am 2005

My keyboard is in the middle of renovations, I spilt freezie juice on it and am in the process of taking it apart and cleaning everyhting. It's a windows one that came with a wireless optical mouse and has everything you could dream of. I can reply to emails via my keyboard, even though I never use it. W/e I just needed something to say. [addsig]



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Posted by SaintGreg on Mon Feb 21st at 5:07am 2005

Reno I definately sympathize with your plight. I hate having headphones without a volume slider on the cord. I know I could benefit by having a keyboard with a volume control, but the only ones I've seen have significantly more buttons that I don't want, and take up more space than a normal keyboard. My friend has one though, and I'm pretty sure that the volume adjusts the master out, not any application specific volume.
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