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Old 04-18-2009, 09:58 PM
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Hehe, sorry guys if I hurt your feelings now. But this hole thing looks to me that using Apple keyboards and mice is to get a wanna-be-mac-feeling at low cost.

In my 20 years of computing I tested a lot of input devices, XT keyboards, AT keyboards, Logitech keyboards, C64, C128, Amiga keyboards, rubber- and foil keyboards (ZX-81, C116), and a huge variety of mice. I presume the beige old-style keyboards and mice from Apple are ok, but the newer, 'design-optimized' input devices from Apple are so crappy that... I never ever would use them. I'd prefer a C128D keyboard on my system before using an Apple Slim Alu keyboard. For me a keyboard must have real keys, with pressure and a click, no fluffy calculator-buttons.

The only Apple input device I'm using is the Apple Remote, and I don't wanna miss it.

2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interfaceBehringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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