The new keyboards! - Page 5

piteetan · #33 November 25th, 2007, 08:42 AM

I just got a wired aluminium keyboard for my 17" iMac core2 running Leopard.
This is really a sweet keyboard except for one thing.
I am not able to boot into Windows. Seems the option key does not work during startup.
Tried downloading a driver upgrade but got a message saying that the current driver is already a newer version.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Damrod · #34 November 25th, 2007, 10:03 AM

Hm, I might be mistaking, but I think the Intel machines do no longer support the Option-key choser. Not sure on that one though

**fryke** · #35 November 25th, 2007, 02:26 PM

Not true. Option-booting should work just fine. Can you test with your old keyboard again? Is it really that option (both keys) don't work on the new keyboard but do on the new –*or is something else wrong? Just to make sure the error doesn't lie elsewhere: You *do* use the option key, the one with "alt" written on it, right?

piteetan · #36 November 25th, 2007, 08:19 PM

Thanks for responses.
Fryke: Yes, I do use the option key, the one with alt written on it.
My older keyboards worked just fine, the older white corded Mac, a wireless Logitech for Mac and even a Microsoft natural keyboard.
The iMac has been booted at least once daily into Windows by my son who uses Windows to do a little gaming. I boot into windows to do maintainence work.
The problem could be with this particular keyboard.
thanks again.

**ScottW** · #37 November 25th, 2007, 11:09 PM

FYI

My new keyboard is starting to have letters wear off like E is half gone. Looks like what plagued my wife's iBook G4.

Oh Joy.

Damrod · #38 November 26th, 2007, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by fryke

Not true. Option-booting should work just fine.

Then I must've confused that with something else, my bad.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottW

FYI

My new keyboard is starting to have letters wear off like E is half gone. Looks like what plagued my wife's iBook G4.

Oh Joy.

Wow, that sucks, How old is your keyboard? It's quite a bummer as I planned on getting a new one...

Ferdinand · #39 December 16th, 2007, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by nixgeek

Folklore.org has the reason why the non-Apple symbol ended up on the Mac and confirms the reason why the Apple symbol is not on the keyboard anymore...

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py...=command%20key

I get why they made the command symbol for the OS, but there isn't really a reason stated why they took it off the keyboards...

nixgeek · #40 December 16th, 2007, 01:29 PM

The Apple symbol was a holdover from the Apple series of computers (pre-Macintosh). in fact, there were two types of Apple keys on the Apple IIs: an open Apple on the left, and a closed Apple on the right. Each had their own function depending on how the program used them.

Also, the first only had the cloverleaf symbol....no Apple symbol at all. This was ordered by Jobs at the time, who thought the excessive use of the Apple symbol not only cluttered the computer with Apples, but thought that its excessive use was "in vain".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key#History

When the Apple IIgs came about, it introduced the Apple Desktop Bus along with the Mac SE. Because the IIgs was still an Apple II series computer, they had to leave at least the open Apple symbol along with the cloverleaf (the closed Apple was eventually nixed because not many developers made use of it in my experience with Apple II software). And since then, both symbols have stayed on the keyboard (I believe that by this time, Jobs was ousted from Apple).

Note that now that Jobs has been back for some time now and Apple is doing well, he's once again removed the Apple symbol from the latest keyboard. As mentioned earlier, he was never too fond of the Apple symbol on the keyboard since there was already an Apple logo on the OS and the case itself.