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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / August 2008Use Apple BT keyboard for Lenovo laptop?
I bought my first ever laptop.... Thinkpad R61i has built in Bluetooth so want to get a decent BT keyboard to use with it. All the BT keyboards for Windows machines seem "huge" to me! can I use the Apple version OK? > I bought my first ever laptop.... Thinkpad R61i > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > can I use the Apple version OK? That depends on your definition of "OK", I suppose. In general, it'll probably work, but some keys may not.  SignatureSend responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages, I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR > I bought my first ever laptop.... Thinkpad R61i Yuck. SignatureSend responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages, I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR > I bought my first ever laptop.... Thinkpad R61i > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > can I use the Apple version OK? It will work fine, the only problem is that some of the key mapping is different, such as having to type '"' to get '@', but this is easy to fix, there is a good freeware utility to create custom keyboard layouts (I cannot think of it's name offhand, but search on "xp keyboard re-map" and you should find something suitable.) Also have a look at KeyTweak (http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/). I have not used this, but it looks suitable. Microsoft also offers a utility to re-map keys: (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx) But it is a pig to use compared to the freeware offerings. Ben. (Typed on a PC using a Mac keyboard) >> can I use the Apple version OK? > >It will work fine, the only problem is that some of the key mapping is >different, such as having to type '"' to get '@', but this is easy to OK thanks Well the Logitech Dinovo Edge looks still too big to me. hence the idea of the Apple BT keyboard. Seems like ALL the PC Bluetooth keyboards are so damn BIG! |
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