Mac keyboard in a pc?

Christo · 9 Feb 2007 at 12:00

Unusual question I know! I have been using a mac all week and love the look of its keyboard - do these keyboards work in PCs? Or if not are there similar keyboards for a pc.

Christo · 9 Feb 2007 at 12:07

coolio

cheers.

Anyone else using this setup in vista?

Christo · 10 Feb 2007 at 22:25

Yep it will be USB.

Do any of you guys like the mac keyboards?

Christo · 10 Feb 2007 at 23:07

semi-pro waster said:
Not in the least but I never really got on with Macs in general, we had to use them in school and I found them rather limiting compared to PCs. That said they do have their positives, just none of them appeal to me as things I need.

Yeh macs dont let you 'play' enough! - too limited. I have a PC but just need a new keyboard, and thought the mac ones were considered to be quite good.

Anyone got any recommendations for decent (not crazy expensive) keyboards.

Zombie - pic

Christo · 11 Feb 2007 at 00:39

artaxerxes said:
I was being sarcastic! Will go back and add the sarcastic smiley. The chap who posted directly above said Macs had no 'play'. If anything they have more out of the box iff you are willing to explore.

The freeBSD was incredibly useful when I was running a lot of matlab and wanted much finer grained access to my files. It was just handy to drop into a unixy environment. However similar can easily be done with cygwin on your PC. The mac just makes it easier as it is inbuilt and as such there is a lot of support.

lol chill out! I just feel constrained by a mac after using a pc, it may be that I am used to using a PC of course.

I cant get used to having no right clikc either.

Christo · 11 Feb 2007 at 03:22

Mohinder said:
I really don't get that.

Plug in a mouse with two buttons, there's your right click. I use my MX1000 and all the buttons work as they should.

Macs don't even come with one button mice anymore.

And besides, even if you have one button, ctrl+click = right click.

Every single Mac I have ever seen only have a 1 click mouse! ctrl+click simply is nowhere near as easy. At any rate it doesnt really matter.

Christo · 11 Feb 2007 at 21:10

Spuderoony said:
I can't imagine why you'd choose to use a Mac keyboard unless you have small-ish hands. Mine aren't small (I can get within half a centimetre of both ctrl keys with one hand on a standard MS one) and using Mac keyboard is just awkward.

I have biig hands actually (and big gloves

) - ah well its ordered now we will see

gunner said:
I think the guy just wanted to know if it works with a PC. Not a why bother story!

lol I know, I dont mind its quite interesting!

Christo · 13 Feb 2007 at 09:58

I just received my apple keyboard today, absolutely no problem - it works out of the box.

And as for the the 'big hands problem' the keys/key area are exactly the same size as a standard keyboard. It looks good too

I'll try to get the eject button/setup a print screen now.

ps the volume buttons rock

Christo · 13 Feb 2007 at 11:15

Cheers!