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July 24th, 2008, 11:43 PM
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 Keyboard and mouse
Hello members With my MBP I wonder what mouse and keyboard to get as I have also to work in a VM a lot because of CAD. At the moment(on windows PC) I use an Intellimouse explorer3 mouse and a standard keyboard. Due to using a lot of keyboard shortcuts and the 5 point mouse(explorer3) I am not sure how to proceed. The mac keyboard has quite a different KB layout and a Mac mouse has very few options. Any suggestions as how I could solve this is very much appreciated.Do any other mouse and KB work as good? Any brands that would be particularly good? Thanks MC  |
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July 25th, 2008, 10:11 AM
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Just about any USB mouse will work with Mac OS X... there isn't really a "Mac" mouse and a "Windows" mouse -- there's just "mice" that work with both platforms. I use an IntelliMouse Explorer with my Mac and it works just fine. Any USB keyboard will work as well, just be aware that the Control/Alt/Windows keys will be mapped slightly different than the Command/Option/Control keys on a Mac keyboard (but there is freeware out there so you can map them back to something more logical).
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July 25th, 2008, 10:57 AM
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Just for kicks, I've even plugged in a one-button Apple USB mouse into a Windows PC and it worked fine....except that I was left without a secondary click for the contextual menu. 
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July 25th, 2008, 05:11 PM
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The explorer3 mouse is truly sorted with os x compatible drivers and works perfectly. Would you be able to name mapping freeware for the keyboard? There might be compatible drivers available so I could use my genius kb29e across the os's. Otherwise any reasonable keyboard compatible with both platforms. Thanks Last edited by maccam; July 25th, 2008 at 05:24 PM. |
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July 25th, 2008, 05:27 PM
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Keyboard remapping software: http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/ http://www.gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ucontrol.html http://www.pidog.com/SimpleKeys/ (to an extent)
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July 25th, 2008, 07:00 PM
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