Mac mini keyboard "accessory" needed
The Mac mini is a nice little computer. According to the tracking information I got, ours should be arriving tomorrow. I did, however, already get to play with one at the Macworld Expo last week, and its performance seemed pretty respectable (heck, its CPU is faster than the PowerBook I'm writing this on).
Anyway, I was reading a blurb about Walt Mossberg's review and noticed that he hooked his up to an HP keyboard. I've used Macs that have been attached to PC keyboards in the past, and it always throws me for a loop. In fact just today I was in Melissa's office trying to help with something on one of her Macs, and the PC keyboard connected to it stymied me. So when I read this article tonight, it reminded me of an idea I had after hearing about the mini last week.
Some enterprising third-party accessory provider (there are several already making add-ons for iPods and other Macs) should come out with a "Mac Keyboard Sticker Kit". The idea would be that it would contain a few stickers that would have Mac icons, like the Apple logo and Command key graphic (a clover leaf symbol), as well as the word "Option". These stickers should be produced using some means that would make sure the text was durable and would not wear off after repeated use. They could even include a few different sizes to handle a wider variety of keyboards, and they could include some versions with both PC and Mac text on them (i.e. both "Alt" and "Option", both the command symbol and the Windows key symbol, etc.) for users who are still using a PC (perhaps via a KVM).
Anyway, I was reading a blurb about Walt Mossberg's review and noticed that he hooked his up to an HP keyboard. I've used Macs that have been attached to PC keyboards in the past, and it always throws me for a loop. In fact just today I was in Melissa's office trying to help with something on one of her Macs, and the PC keyboard connected to it stymied me. So when I read this article tonight, it reminded me of an idea I had after hearing about the mini last week.
Some enterprising third-party accessory provider (there are several already making add-ons for iPods and other Macs) should come out with a "Mac Keyboard Sticker Kit". The idea would be that it would contain a few stickers that would have Mac icons, like the Apple logo and Command key graphic (a clover leaf symbol), as well as the word "Option". These stickers should be produced using some means that would make sure the text was durable and would not wear off after repeated use. They could even include a few different sizes to handle a wider variety of keyboards, and they could include some versions with both PC and Mac text on them (i.e. both "Alt" and "Option", both the command symbol and the Windows key symbol, etc.) for users who are still using a PC (perhaps via a KVM).
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