Really quite far from your average Apple fanboy.
I have been using OS X kit for (counts on fingers...) four years and it has been a generally positive experience. Modulo the whole grafting of the NeXT/Netinfo malarkey onto an otherwise blameless BSD userland, the weird packaging disconnect (applications are packaged mostly-cleverly. The OS, er, isn't. Thus security/OS patching is a bit of a one-way process. The last time I looked, Apple's advice should a patch go horribly wrong was 'Reinstall the machine and restore your data from backup. On the other hand, it is only Unix, so if you can get a terminal session it's notionally fixable) and the dreadful b0rkage of any mail client that isn't Thunderbird.
Anyway. Being a tiresome old Unix admin (I think I am now one of those mythical 'fat guys who know C++') I have an IBM keyboard that last saw regular use when attached to an XT286. It's one of the later ones, so it's got the cable with the connectors at both ends (instead of a grommet) and the plastic upper chassis, so you can't pry the works open in case of a severe liquid spill, but still. It is big and heavy and lovely. And doesn't have what has become the 'standard' keyboard layout due to revisionism and cost-cutting.
Since I'm a crap Apple user I rather like keyboard shortcuts, and the lack of a 'splat' key makes life hard.
KeyRemap4MacBook makes life much less hard. @ and " and # are in the right places! I don't appear to be at home to RSI! Profit! (At the possible expense of far too many options and an invitation to hand-edit XML if otherwise unsatisfied. One would have to be using some freak-special like a Maltron for that...)
Anyway. Being a tiresome old Unix admin (I think I am now one of those mythical 'fat guys who know C++') I have an IBM keyboard that last saw regular use when attached to an XT286. It's one of the later ones, so it's got the cable with the connectors at both ends (instead of a grommet) and the plastic upper chassis, so you can't pry the works open in case of a severe liquid spill, but still. It is big and heavy and lovely. And doesn't have what has become the 'standard' keyboard layout due to revisionism and cost-cutting.
Since I'm a crap Apple user I rather like keyboard shortcuts, and the lack of a 'splat' key makes life hard.
KeyRemap4MacBook makes life much less hard. @ and " and # are in the right places! I don't appear to be at home to RSI! Profit! (At the possible expense of far too many options and an invitation to hand-edit XML if otherwise unsatisfied. One would have to be using some freak-special like a Maltron for that...)