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I hadn't realised they were using it on all the MBP's now, I thought
just the baby one, which was a MB with ambitions.

This one (with decent keyboard) needs to be seen by apple for a dodgy
DVD drive. I'll have a dillemma if they offer to swap it out for a new
version.

 

Yeah, I don't know what the **** they're thinking.

 

I'm sorry, unless it's changed since I got my MacBook, that is *nothing*
like a Spectrum keyboard.

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That's my MacBook Pro.

And that's like my work keyboard and the Missus' MacBook. I think the
MBP one looks a bit cheap and tacky compared to the newer MBP ones.

 

My MB keyboard is marvellous, I quite like the"chiclet" design myself.

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You wouldn't say the latter is more like
http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/ZX-81-Spectrum.jpg than the
former?

 

No. The important things about Spectrum keyboards, the very essence if
you like, is that they were made of rubber. Chiclet keyboards aren't.
They (chiclets) also work.

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Well, yeah, I'm not talking about what they're made of; I'm talking
about the design.

I find the current mac keyboards ghastly looking and nasty to use. I
want them to go back to the ones in use in the first link above, which
are attractive and pleasurable to type with.

 

Bring back these:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/ModelM.jpg

is what I say.

 

You can still get them, Unicomp bought the buckling spring design from
IBM.. http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/

Go for the Space Saver or Customizer 104/105 versions and you even get
windows keys.

 

Very tempting, now you can get USB versions.

 

(SteveH) wrote in :

I ditched the Logitech pile of crap that came with my last PC system in
favour of the trusty ModelM clone made by NMB. It came with a Fujitsu
system in around 1997.

 

I see. Conversely, I much prefer the newer types. Chacun a son gout.

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Well, "keyboards are a broad church", I suppose. It's clear to me,
though, that apple have gone down to the lowest standard, given that
the keyboard that was deleted was the premium product.

 

Catman posted:

Jupiter Ace.

 

Which is why your colleagues are talking along the lines of: "a gay man
can have children and be married, it doesn't stop them being gay".

 

It's a rebellion thing. Having Apple hardware in an IBM-iron-only
establishment.

I'm working on getting a MacBook Pro.