Re: External keyboard for MacBook? Trackball?

Richard Huggins wrote:
I'd appreciate hearing about external keyboards that you like and that I
could use with my MacBook. I am presuming that any USB keyboard would work
(i.e., the Intel factor makes no difference) but if I'm wrong let me know.

Access to the "special" keys may not be possible (or the keys may not exist, of course) unless you get a Mac compatible keyboard, or one with OS X drivers. There are a lot out there.

Also, I love working with a trackball, but I wonder if there might be a
problem doing so if the control software is non-native? Kensington is pretty
non-committal so far as to if their Mouseworks software (that controls their
trackball) will be developed to produce a native (universal) version. I'm
wondering how much it matters. I'm new to OS X.

Dunno.
.

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