The Belkin and MS keyboards have 2-3 AA or AAA batteries and are supposed to last a few months. That's pretty much what we've experienced. It's very useful having the keyboard and mouse on the coffee table in the lounge to control the "Entertainment" Mac. The other wireless keyboard works great in the lectern at our local church to control the Mac driving the video projector when a speaker wants to change powerpoint slides themselves from up the front.
In answer to Peter's question about the command (Apple) key - there is plenty of freeware/shareware software available that maps it to either the Windows key and or swaps the Windows key with the alt key (or just about any other combination). The software that comes with the MS keyboard also allows you to map the keys wherever you wish and set up the Music key to launch iTunes, picture key -> iPhoto etc. By default without any extra software both keyboards correctly map the volume keys and if I recall correctly the next song & previous song keys to work in iTunes (when iTunes is running). I haven't been able to get the extra multimedia buttons on the cheap Belkin keyboard to map to iTunes, Safari and iPhoto unfortunately, but the MS s/w does it perfectly well on the MS keyboard. -Mart -------------------------------------- Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242 > From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:39:05 +0800 > To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> > Subject: Re: Keyboard for G4 > > > On 28 Jul 2004, at 4:05 PM, Martin Hill wrote: > >> Ken, we have recently bought a Belkin Wireless keyboard and wireless >> optical >> mouse from Harvey Norman's for $59 and also the Microsoft Basic >> Wireless >> Keyboard and mouse for $85 which both perform very well on the Mac - >> all the >> extra multimedia keys work on the MS keyboard under OS X with the MS >> software which makes the extra expense worth it. > > I've wondered about these wireless devices. What sort of batteries do > they have and how long do they last? > > Regards, > > John Taylor > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >
