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[HMiller]

I thought a couple comments might be useful for people like myself.  Say you now have a working hack and are starting to be a true believer.  Sure, Alt and Command are the same key, but man that new keyboard is cool.

Having taken the plunge of buying apple peripherals, do they work with a hack and are they any good?

Apple Aluminum Keyboard:  Works fine with a hack.  Volume keys, optical drive eject key, etc.  Keyboard is satisfying to fondle, just like an iPod.  Typing is good for a low action keyboard, still deciding if I sort of like or could grow to really like.  Seems better for writing a letter than working the special character keys (duh).

Mighty Mouse:  Scroll ball is awesome, the level of refinement is way beyond any other mouse--I am still trying the MM just because of it.  Clicking the whole mouse body and it "knows" left and right is just disturbing and not 100% accurate compared to a mouse with separate buttons.  Left clicking and feeling the whole mouse body move down is really something...something bad mostly, but I am giving it a chance.  The side "buttons" have some kind of "force sensors" which are total crap--on my hack they would just activate even if not touched, once disabled they are no longer a threat to my computing.

Purchase experience:
Best Buy Dude:  Can I help you?
Me:  Do you have that new Mac aluminum keyboard?
BBD: Oh you're a Mac user?  They are easy to use aren't they?  That makes them really nice.
Me:  I like that its BSD Unix with the Mach kernel from NeXT, the GUI is fine.
BBD:  Um, here's the keyboard.  
...various chit chat
BBD:  I would get a Mac, but I like to be able to put together whatever hardware I want for my computer.
Me:  I understand that.
BBD:  Macs make you buy all your hardware from Apple.
Me:  Yeah, um, guess that's true.  Thanks for the keyboard...oh, is that a Might Mouse?

Anyway, wired keyboard and mighty mouse are working great.

[teknojunkie]

yep same here I have the MM and alu keyboard too working great on my hackintosh, and in XP with the keyboard bootloader drivers.