[WinMac] poxy keyboard and mouse

Blair, Hamish C(hblair[at]kpmg.com.au)
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:55:10 +1100

Interestingly, I brought the keyboard and mouse to the attention of one of
Apple Australia's staff at the Apple Roadshow here in Melbourne last week

BTW, gotta love the 22: Apple Cinema display. Turf out the TV and use that
instead! Great for wide-screen DVD - does anyone know how to hook a TV
tuner up to one of these new machines? I have TV tuner on my Performa 6400
which is great (if blocky at full screen) - and would love same
functionality when I upgrade to a G4.

Anyway, the Apple rep suggested that since Apple had wooed all the third
party USB developers into providing keyboards, mice etc, if Apple were to
upgrade the OEM versions, basically the third parties would be highly pissed
off.

Solution: I recall when I bought my first computer (aforementioned 6400 2
1/2 years ago) that the keyboard was a separate item that I paid extra for??
(Does this sound right - it was a while ago).

Anyway, why doesn't Apple split the keyboard out? It could shave $50 off
the shipping price, and then allow us, the customer, to work out what we
want. Now of course people will bitch about the price tag (and it doesn't
even include a keyboard!) but at least our cupboards will have room for
those old SCSI devices rather than being taken up with crappy poxy
keyboards.

Just my A$0.035 (+US$0.02)

Cheers

Hamish Blair

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