[CUBE] New laptops, keyboard, mouse

[Tom Hostler]

Sorry, I wasn't exactly clear - it was supposed to be from a Cube owners
perspective - as this is a Cube list! The absolute numbers calculation is
correct though - and I stand corrected - so not arguing there!

Most important for us Cubeowners I guess is the loss of the "easily
accessible" USB ports for camera leads, USB drives etc - plus we already
lose one for USB audio, and need to add a Bluetooth dongle for them. Unless
you have an ADC display that gives you some extras you're needing a external
Hub. And we haven't even mentioned printers, scanners etc!

Perhaps the best of both worlds is a wired keyboard but have the wireless
mouse?

Plus they're white, which looks very dirty very quickly. I was at Apple Expo
yesterday, and by the end of the day the keyboards & mice were covered in
dirty fingerprints after just one day of use. IMHO the white peripherals
don't match the Aluminium G5/Powerbook Pro look and the G5 line looks very
disjointed - Aluminium G5, White (iBook like peripherals) and Lucite Cinema
displays that harp back to Quicksilver G4 days. All in all a visual mess
IMHO.

It was funny watching the Apple reps keep track of the wireless mice as the
public picked them up & passed them around - a few anxious faces if they
"strayed" too far from home!!













On 17/9/03 11:41 am, "Joost van de Griek" <joost at jvdg.net> wrote:

> On 2003-09-17 12:32, Tom Hostler wrote:
> 
>> Remember too that you loose the 2 USB ports you have on a standard Apple
>> keyboard, and if you don't have built in Bluetooth and have to add a USB
>> dongle, then you loose 3 USB ports as one is used for the dongle to
>> communicate with the keyboard & mouse.
> 
> Fun with numbers!
> 
> Lessee, "traditional" keyboard and mouse setup:
> 
> -1 port for the keyboard.
> +2 ports on the keyboard.
> -1 port for the mouse.
> 
> Result: No ports gained or lost.
> 
> Bluetooth keyboard and mouse setup:
> 
> -1 port for the dongle (if required).
> 
> Result: 1 port lost on older Macs, No ports lost or gained on Macs
> w/Bluetooth.
> 
> Not exactly a loss of 3 ports, though.
> 
> ,xtG
> .tsooJ