wireless apple keyboard with PC

benji182 · 2 Mar 2009 at 23:04

hi guys, been a while since i used the forums,

have been thinking of getting rid of my HUGE battery eating M$ keyboard for the beauty that is the apple wireless keys with out the numpad.

it says bluetooth, now my PC doesn't have that built in so first question is, does it come with a dongle or do i buy that seperate and if so does it matter what type of bluetooth dongle?

secondly, other than " & @ read in another thread (non wireless mind you) would there be any other issues, thinking of moving to a mac but atm can't afford so just going for the keys.

thanks for your time.

OzyOly · 3 Mar 2009 at 08:03

You will have to buy a dongle yes. All recent macs have a bluetooth module built in see.

You will also need to select the apple keyboard from the list of keyboards in windows or you'll get the wrong keys here and there.

Other than that you're fine. Apart from if you need a # key.

Feek · 3 Mar 2009 at 09:07

option 3 isn't it for # iirc

Raymond Lin · 3 Mar 2009 at 09:12

OzyOly said:
You will have to buy a dongle yes. All recent macs have a bluetooth module built in see.

You will also need to select the apple keyboard from the list of keyboards in windows or you'll get the wrong keys here and there.

Other than that you're fine. Apart from if you need a # key.

I just remap the keys in the registry.

benji182 · 3 Mar 2009 at 18:14

would "ctrl + alt + del" work if i ever needed it ;o)

thanks for the quick replies guys.