mtdmitchell Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Okay so we have purchased 20 Mac Mini's, but no Kerboards or Mice. the MAc Keyboards and Mice are very Expensive and our Students are very destructive so im looking for a decent priced USB keybaord with USB ports on it.? Anyone have a nice Alternative for under a tenner?
Ben-BSH Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 (edited) Any reason for needing the USB hub on the keyboard? most mice will have a plenty long enough lead, if that is the reason Edited February 9, 2010 by Ben-BSH nevermind!
mtdmitchell Posted February 9, 2010 Author Posted February 9, 2010 The Mac Mini's only have USB Ports on the Back, so Plugging in a USB Drive means the Student Pull the nice Tiday Mac Mini's all over the place.
mac_shinobi Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Ask simon at CP LTD Computer Products Ltd | Computer Hardware | Desktop PCs | Laptops | Notebooks | LCD | Software | Printers | Servers | Wireless Networking | Office Supplies | Ruckus Wireless | Meru Wireless As long as they are USB keyboards / mice should be fine
Ben-BSH Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 cheapest i have found so far Scan.co.uk: Colours IT 8102C Multimedia Wired Keyboard, USB with USB Hub, Silver/Black 1
mtdmitchell Posted February 9, 2010 Author Posted February 9, 2010 cheapest i have found so far Scan.co.uk: Colours IT 8102C Multimedia Wired Keyboard, USB with USB Hub, Silver/Black Thanks, not to be fusy but they are ugly
Ben-BSH Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 LinITX.com - FK-380 Compact MultiMedia Keyboard with USB Hub Techinfo Perixx PeriBoard 402U USB MINI Multimedia Keyboard with 2 Built in USB Ports - R Digitalpromo.co.uk few more? seems hard pushed to get anything nice for the tenner mark
nicklec Posted February 9, 2010 Posted February 9, 2010 Its pretty frustrating trying to find keyboards without the usual glut of 'windows functions' buttons; interested if you find a copy (feature wise) of the mac alu keyboard
Robbocop Posted February 10, 2010 Posted February 10, 2010 Sadly, third party Mac keyboards (Macally and so on) tent to be as expensive as Apple ones. Any Windows usb keyboard and mouse will work, but you won't get Apple specialist keys, which probably also means the CD eject key! Forgive me for the plug, but we've been selling one made by Cherry, which you might also be able to source through other resellers. Not a great deal cheaper than the Apple one I'm afraid. There's a couple of useful resources I can point you at if you want to give windows keyboards a try: Doublecommand is an OSX kernel extension which lets you remap keyboard commands DoubleCommand and there's a nice article around the subject from Macworld here Mac mini, Windows Keyboard | Desktop | Mac Gems | Macworld I hope that helps you out. Rob 1
mtdmitchell Posted February 10, 2010 Author Posted February 10, 2010 Sadly, third party Mac keyboards (Macally and so on) tent to be as expensive as Apple ones. Any Windows usb keyboard and mouse will work, but you won't get Apple specialist keys, which probably also means the CD eject key! Forgive me for the plug, but we've been selling one made by Cherry, which you might also be able to source through other resellers. Not a great deal cheaper than the Apple one I'm afraid. There's a couple of useful resources I can point you at if you want to give windows keyboards a try: Doublecommand is an OSX kernel extension which lets you remap keyboard commands DoubleCommand and there's a nice article around the subject from Macworld here Mac mini, Windows Keyboard | Desktop | Mac Gems | Macworld I hope that helps you out. Rob Thanks for that, Im just going to have to stick with a normal Keyboard and maybe tape a USB extension lead to the front MAc! The other main Problem is the Power button is on the back on the MAc im hoping this can also be mapped a key?
nicklec Posted February 11, 2010 Posted February 11, 2010 Wake on lan? Pretty sure F12 ejects a disc if your using a generic usb keyboard
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