Ok, so the iMac comes by default with a miniature keyboard identical to those found in the Macintosh laptops. Cool if you spend your time flipping from laptop to desktop but not so cool if you spend your time flipping from a PC desktop to an iMac. So, I replaced mine with the full size Mac keyboard. This has the arrow keys set apart from the main keyboard and the modifier keys like control/option/command are a bit larger too. Overall I like this larger keyboard alot better than the small one.
Ok, so now some quirks.
Mac Command key = Windows Control Key
Mac Option key = Windows Alt Key
Mac Control key = a mixture of the two (control-click is like right click in Windows though)
The one small thing that I'm having trouble getting used to is option-right/left arrow moves the cursor by words whereas on Windows its control-right/left arrow. Not only this but cut/copy/paste uses the command key while cursor by words is the option key. I find the PC experience smoother where the control key is used for pretty much everything. Switching between a Mac keyboard and home and a PC keyboard at work is going to be challenging.
One great thing I'm finding though is that as a long time Unix and xemacs user, lots of Mac text edit boxes support emacs keys!? What are the odds?? (I guess its OS X's Unix foundation leaking through.)
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