Keyboards: English vs. International English

MeWantBroadband

Hi,

Am eyeing the new thin wireless keyboards. You can buy an English one or an International English one. What is the difference?

Does either do the quotes properly for Britain & Ireland, i.e. shift+2 = " ?

im...LOST

You can always map certain symbols to whatever keys you want so it shouldn't matter what version keyboard you get. Provided that it's qwerty then you should be grand.

Oirthir

International English stick in a € and a £ symbol I think?

MeWantBroadband

Oirthir wrote: »

International English stick in a € and a £ symbol I think?

Sounds like the international version for me...

MeWantBroadband

im...LOST wrote: »

You can always map certain symbols to whatever keys you want so it shouldn't matter what version keyboard you get. Provided that it's qwerty then you should be grand.

I suppose I could by a blank keyboard and arrange the keys by how pointy the letters are. However I would prefer it if Apple didn't foist US keyboards on the rest of the English speaking world.

Mapping the keys so my Windows keyboard worked right was a PITA back when I got the Mac last year.

ZENER

MeWantBroadband wrote: »

Hi,

Am eyeing the new thin wireless keyboards.

I met one of these recently, didn't like it at all. Felt like a ZX Spectrum from the 80's. If you take my advice and you prefer proper keys then pick up the older Apple bluetooth keyboard, much nicer in my opinion and there are still some available in PC World.

ZEN

MeWantBroadband

ZENER wrote: »

I met one of these recently, didn't like it at all. Felt like a ZX Spectrum from the 80's. If you take my advice and you prefer proper keys then pick up the older Apple bluetooth keyboard, much nicer in my opinion and there are still some available in PC World.

ZEN

I just use the Mac as an entertainment PC so a tiny wireless keyboard would hit the spot perfectly. I would not use a PC from an MP3 manufacturer for real work

In this case no keypad etc. is fine.

Breezer

MeWantBroadband wrote: »

I would not use a PC from an MP3 manufacturer for real work

That's not gonna go down well

Creamy Goodness

yeh consider apple weren't like one of the first makers of pc's or nothing.

ZENER

He obviously hasn't heard of the Microsoft ZUNE then, mind you - not many have in fairness :rolleyes:. Still at least this time M$ didn't steal any ideas for their music player like they did for their operating systems

Welcome to the Mac by the way !

ZEN

MeWantBroadband

Breezer wrote: »

That's not gonna go down well

I put the little cheeky tongue out emoticon on it, so that makes it all ok.

On a serious note, I bought a Mac Mini when my (self built) PC had a melt down. Used it for email/browsing until the PC was sorted. I had my eye on one for a while as a living room PC.

1. The Mac lost its sound hardware a couple of times. It did not think it had any sound card at all. This was annoying for its longer term role as a multimedia PC.

2. The DVD drive in the mini is dodgy as all hell. One time it swallowed a rented DVD. Luckily Xtravision were sound about it and didn't fine me it was stuck in the Mac.
It then thought it had no DVD hardware what so ever. Because Apple value form over function, there is no mechanical eject for the optical drive. Eventually it saw it and allowed me to spit it out.

Shortly after that, I had my eye on the 2nd gen Shuffle as a lighter alternative to the 30 GB iPod I had. They had an free engraving service, so I thought "Hmm...".

Got my self a Shuffle with the words:
Apple - stick to making MP3 players.

Sure enough, they engraved it as specified, and I have shots of it. I would post a picture, but the level-headed dispassionate Mac fans might DDOS my website

MeWantBroadband

Cremo wrote: »

yeh consider apple weren't like one of the first makers of pc's or nothing.

Apple Computer were among the first microcomputer manufacturers.

They dropped the "computer" from the name though a while back. So Leopard was late while the iPhone was being developed, because of the new priorities.