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Re:Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing by KirinDave on Friday April 30, 2010 @02:04PM (#1308905)
Well, I don't think that's what a portable lightweight bluetooth keyboard is for. It's very comfortable to type on, is fairly durable, and is quite light and reasonably small. It's not meant to replace a full keyboard, just to be a decent substitute.

That said, once I did the ctrl/caps remapping I've used that keyboard extensively with emacs and only occasionally did I feel any real limitations.

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Re:Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing by fr0man on Friday April 30, 2010 @04:30PM (#1309327)
Except it's what came with my full-size 27'' beast of an iMac. That sort of thing should come with a full keyboard or something that's supposed to be a substitute for it. If I'd gotten it with a laptop purchase, then yeah, I wouldn't be complaining. It would be pretty cool for that. It works fine with Vim, but not XCode or Visual Studio, which are my two primary uses for the iMac purchase.
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Re:Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing by blasdel on Friday April 30, 2010 @08:08PM (#1309808)
They let you choose which of several keyboard-mouse combos you want with your computer, all for the same price.
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Re:Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing by fr0man on Saturday May 01, 2010 @07:11AM (#1310421)
Not at Best Buy, apparently. I probably still would have chosen the smaller one and then lived to regret it, though.
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