On 9/2/05, Patrick Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Johann Beda wrote:
> >
> > Any USB keyboard and mouse will work - truck down to the Future
> > Shop or Staples or any computer place for lots of choices. The
> > Microsoft
> > products come with fairly good driver software to enable any extra
> > buttons,
> > but for the basic functions, any USB keyboard or mouse will work.
>
> This isn't true. I was recently given a stripped down G4 tower (no
> RAM, no HD, no keyboard/mouse), and I thought I could use any USB
> keyboard. If you don't get a Mac a keyboard you may have issues
> opening up the internal CD/DVD which uses the Mac keyboard "eject"
> button (which is supposedly equivalent to the F12 key, but YMMV) (yes,
> I know you can also hold down the mouse key while powering up the
> computer to force the door open, but if you haven't gotten the OS
> installed yet and you slap the wrong CD in there, you're out of luck).
> I also had issues using a non USB keyboard with my 10.3 install CD's as
> it had issues with the keyboard until the complete OS was installed.
Can't say I've had problems with keyboards and Mac OS X (of course, I
used to use an ADB keyboard with my G3 tower rather than the crap USB
keyboard that came with it ;-)
> Now, any *mouse* will work fine. I plugged in my Logitech and had no
> problems; installing the required mouse drivers only enhanced the
> experience.
However, I have had problems with mice, believe it or not. I once had
a (cheap) LogiTech model that refused to function with OS X (no clicks
on three different machines) but did happily work with OS 9 (on the
same machine as one of the OS X experiments so it wasn't the
circuitry). But, in general mice are a pretty safe lot. Two+one
buttons and a scroll wheel are supported by most OS X apps nowadays.
Eric.
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