{"id":10,"date":"2007-02-12T23:49:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T23:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/12\/apple-mac-mini-keyboard-and-mouse\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T10:50:08","slug":"apple-mac-mini-keyboard-and-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2007\/apple-mac-mini-keyboard-and-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mac Mini – Keyboard and Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn’t get the Apple keyboard and \t\t\tmouse as I have plenty from regular PCs over the years. \t\t\tBesides at $99 AUST each I’m not convinced its value for money. So I’m \t\t\tusing a Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700. Yes – just \t\t\tsuperseded series – December 05. By the way I don’t think the \t\t\tnew Logitech S series keyboard and mice look as good as the LX700. \t\t\t(Includes the S530 Mac specific setup) But infinitely better than the Microsoft keyboards or mice.<\/font><\/p>\n

That said imagine if Apple reduced \t\t\tthe price – not to mass market level but say $50 they would probably \t\t\tsell more.<\/font><\/p>\n

So did it work ? Yes, of course I followed the instructions for a change and it all recognised each \t\t\tother etc… Mind you now that I have a mouse with at least 5 \t\t\tbuttons I’m not sure what to do ! Got to find out which are \t\t\tthe ‘Apple’ keys are too !<\/font><\/p>\n

Note that the Logitech LX700 keyboard and mouse set \t\t\tis wireless released in 2004.<\/font><\/p>\n

The good bits<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The desktop set worked perfectly when \t\t\tthe Mac Mini was turned on the first time.
\nThe wireless range for both keyboard and mouse was at least 5 meters with fully charged \t\t\tbatteries. I love wireless in general there’s no wires and you can hide \t\t\tthe transmitter recharging base. (Yes I even love Infrared)<\/font><\/p>\n

Furthermore all you have to do to \t\t\twake the Mac from sleep mode is to move the mouse or press any \t\t\tbutton on the keyboard.<\/font><\/p>\n

\t\t\t \t\t\tProblems<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Logitech didn’t come with any Mac \t\t\tsoftware or drivers so I haven’t quite worked out what the keyboard \t\t\tmapping is yet. That said the keyboard has a lot of \t\t\tadditional buttons which as this point are all but useless as the \t\t\tMac does not allow native identification of the extra buttons.<\/font><\/p>\n

Needless to say I haven’t any \t\t\tkeyboard manufacturer that makes Apple Mac specific keyboards or \t\t\tassociated drivers. You’d think there would be now that its \t\t\tbased on Unix.<\/font><\/p>\n

Anyway I’ll update the page with how \t\t\tI’ve solved it – if I manage to do it.<\/font><\/p>\n

\t\t\tLogitech keyboard mapping for Apple Mac<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

So far I’ve worked out :<\/font><\/p>\n

ESC = ESC
\nStart = Apple key
\nF12 = Eject DVD\/CD<\/font><\/p>\n

Keyboard scroll wheel = scroll \t\t\tup\/down<\/font><\/p>\n

\t\t\tConclusion<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

Good so far. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t get the Apple keyboard and mouse as I have plenty from regular PCs over the years. Besides at $99 AUST each I’m not convinced its value for money. So I’m using a Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700. Yes – just superseded series – December 05. By the way I don’t think the new Logitech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}