Made the switch to mac and I love it!

[kebosma]

After 12 years of fooling around with win95, win98, win98SE, winXP and winXPSP2, I switched to a 20" Imac intel core duo 2 (2.16 GHz), and I love it!

I have never had such a good computer before and the only thing that I'm regretting is that I didn't switch earlier to a MAC... I'm going to sell all of my windows based computers and also buy a macbook intel core duo2, white.... Maybe even a second 20" Imac in the future, but I have to see...

Everything is suddenly so simple and feels so robust, it's great! I don't hear big ventilators blowing or noisy HDD's spinning, it handles like a very luxurious car!

There are however a couple of things that I would like to discuss on this forum:

- When I'm typing like this, very often two of the same characters are displayed on the screen where I only typed one, for example: "oftten". I've never experienced this on a computer before. I tried increasing repeativity delay of the keyboard in system preferences, but this didn't help. Any suggestions? I type quite fast, maybe that is the problem?

- When I'm typing a text document in for examples pages or word, how can I quikly, with one press of a keyboard button, hop to the end or beginning of the line? (like HOME and END functionality in a windows environment).

- When I want to switch from insert to typeover in a document in word or pages, can I do this with a keyboard button? (like INSERT in a windows environment).

That's it for now, I think I will be active on this forum a lot, since I want to learn as much as possible about my new " rolls royce"....

Greetz...

[Viro]

- When I'm typing like this, very often two of the same characters are displayed on the screen where I only typed one, for example: "oftten". I've never experienced this on a computer before. I tried increasing repeativity delay of the keyboard in system preferences, but this didn't help. Any suggestions? I type quite fast, maybe that is the problem?

Try using a different keyboard. See if the problem persists. I'm suspecting that it wouldn't, and hence the keyboard is faulty. I can type at about 100 words per minute, and I've never experienced the problems you describe.

- When I'm typing a text document in for examples pages or word, how can I quikly, with one press of a keyboard button, hop to the end or beginning of the line? (like HOME and END functionality in a windows environment).

Do CMD+Left arrow to go to the beginning of the line, CMD + right arrow to go to the end of the line.

- When I want to switch from insert to typeover in a document in word or pages, can I do this with a keyboard button? (like INSERT in a windows environment).

I do not think there is a keyboard equivalent of the INSERT key.

[kebosma]

okay, thanks for the help Viro!

Ik will try another keyboard, hopefully it is solved then.

[kebosma]

And after buying the 20" Imac, I just also bought the 2.0 GHz core due 2 macbook (white off course), wonderful machine and now I can get rid of all the remaining windows machines....... Man what a nice stuff, the Apple stuff...

[fryke]

Does the double-character problem only occur in the webbrowser? And is it only a _display_ problem or is the character actually there? I've found Safari sometimes has troubles displaying text in forms when you delete a line or two (parts of the deleted text remain visible, although they're gone logically).

[kebosma]

Fryke, the double- character problem not only occurs in webbrowser, but also in text editors, when filling in on line documents, chatting with people, etc. I tried a new keyboard on my Imac, but it doesn't help. I also bought the same 20" Imac for my father-in-law, same problem. I guess that it is some kind of setting in the keyboard SW, but not something the user can change.
Maybe it's the way I'm typing, as I said, I type quite fast.

By the way, my MacBook doesn't have this problem.

[fryke]

Hm. Seriously strange, then. Never came across such a bug/setting. If the key repetition is set okay, it should be no problem. Also, if you're a fast typer, this shouldn't occur, anyway, since you won't hold down a key for too long...

[Lt Major Burns]

i also get that. i thought it was just me... i;ve learned not to... dunno how.