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Old 05-01-2009, 02:37 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube View Post
Nice engineering, but I still dislike it because it's a Mac and Mac OS and conforming to the "Mac is cool crowd"...When it's not cool by any means. It's just a different choice in the market place that has unfortunately gained all this annoying pop culture caché. And that logo would bug me to no end. I would end up running bootcamp and having a PC installation (neccessary because of my preferred software and interests that don't run on Mac OS) with a custom GUI and figuring out some way to remove all trademarks from the casing or covering them up. I hate trademarks unless they are my own design or art.

I am a big fan of good aesthetics, innovative engineering, and sleek industrial design. I just don't like the fact that you are basically forced to go with one choice and that is the Mac for features like this. It doesn't mean I won't adopt them. I love that Macs are x86 architecture now. I've been hacking my Mac keyboard to work in Windows and even having the F13-F19 buttons doing useful things. Even the eject button and media controls and on scree displayed icons work in Windows now.
The table for the uncool kids is over there.

But really, how did you hack your keyboard to get it working in Windows? I flip between both platforms a lot and only use the Apple keyboard so I could really use something like that!
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