Do not eat iPod shuffle.
Well, SCREW that.
Unsurprisingly, the Apple Store site is exceedingly sloooooooooooow to load. Heh.
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Do not eat iPod shuffle.
Well, SCREW that.
Unsurprisingly, the Apple Store site is exceedingly sloooooooooooow to load. Heh.
It's cheap, but they're selling it without a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Sans monitor is par for the course with Apple, though. (And personally, I prefer non-Mac keyboards and mice anyhow, so that works out great.)
Would it use the standard monitors/etc., or would you have to get Mac drivers? Or am I way behind the curve on equipment compatibility?
Would it use the standard monitors/etc.
Yeah. The standard VGA monitor (which 99% are) or the new DVI (digital video) standard, that most better LCD monitors use....
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Oh, and any standard USB keyboard and mouse....
hrrmph. And I was gonna buy one right the fuck now.
(or, you know, play around with the configurator and waste all their bandwidth)
You can't use an AT-style keyboard, but any USB keyboard will work.
Similarly, a serial mouse is not supported, but any USB mouse will work.
Any monitor will work.
Connie, you're way behind the curve (which I mean in the nicest possible way). Pretty much any USB keyboard and mouse will plug into a recent Mac and be ready to go.
any standard USB keyboard and mouse....
t manages not to snicker too cynically Put me in the "I'll have to get one of those someday" column.
Any standard keyboard is fine, but then you'd have to guess which special function keys (option, command, and apple) are which, right?
(Looks at the Apple page)
So. Cute! I want a mini. I kinda-sorta want one of the iPod shuffles, but really, I have no need for one.
Heh. Just as I was reading this thread and going to the Apple page, Pete called me to burble about the new Mac stuff.