Re: New iMac keyboards

In article <uce-C591CD.21300430072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gregory Weston <uce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1185830156.183061.262180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bob Vogel <bobvogel2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 30, 4:46 pm, Gregory Weston <u...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I don't buy it. I don't buy it because the low profile keys will
gratuitously turn off a lot of people. I don't buy it because there are
a number of subtle and fairly pointless deviations from the keyboard
designs Apple has been using for 20+ years. I don't believe it because
frankly, it's ugly (although some of that might be attributable to it
being a prototype).

So you think this is a hoax?

I'd bet a functioning, albeit legacy, Mac and a lunch on it.

Sure looks an awful lot like the keyboard on a MacBook Pro (slightly
extended) to me.

<seguing slightly>

The one area into which Jobs' vision and RDF has never successfully
penetrated is that relating to keyboards. The original Mac/MacPlus
keyboards were bad, the keyboard on the original iMac was bad, and even
the keyboard on the NeXT Cube was bad. Each computer and its
accompanying software was groundbreaking, but the keyboards should have
been buried deep underground.

For my particular taste, the current Mac keyboard (the one with 16
function keys, etc. that ships with the iMac and MacPro) is one of the
better keyboards I've ever used -- almost as good as the "Saratoga" or
my second favorite, the one on the old IBM Selectric typewriter.

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