[geeks] grudging praise for a Micosoft product

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 02:54:20AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> Everything made after the Apple Extended II and before the new aluminum
> keyboard was atrociously bad.  And, even at that, the Extended II wasn't
> nearly as nice as the original Apple Extended. 

Was that the ADB keyboard that some people at Apple had little airplanes
on it because it was so big, they namedit after an aircaft carrier 
(Enterprise)?

I always thought that was good.

The iMac keyboards with the hockey puck mice IMHO sucked big time, but
I recently gave one to a friend with an iMac and he likes them both. 
(Beats me why, but he likes them.)

I have a clear keyboard that came with a iMac G3 DV, which I kept because
I liked it.

My favorite recent keyboard is a big black IBM PS2 keyboard. I think you can
still get them with Lenovo on them, as I have seen them at my local HMO's
offices. 

If I ever do buy a new keyboard for myself, I will try to hunt them down
and get one with a USB interface. 

I needed a wireless keyboard for my MythTV box, which I really use as
a DVD/avi player and I bought an M/S infra red keyboard. It works fine
and unlike a bluetooth one plugs into a USB port and the BIOS of the PC
recognizes it a boot time. Linux identifies it as a Lite-On one.

I don't use it enough to have an option on it's typing capability. 

I'm using my wife's Teac Multimedia "slim" keyboard now, and it's fine but
I often hit the "caps lock" when I am typing an "a". "-)

As for Apple keyboards, if I ever do buy a new Mac, the first thing I would
do is put an Lenovo keyboard on it. If I can't find one, it would be the
PS2 IBM one with a PS2 to USB adaptor. 

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM