Mac keyboard/ PC compatibility questions.

el_gringo_3

Hi guys.

I was lucky enough to find a brand new mac keyboard in a house i moved into about 4 years ago. It was USB and I used it for a bit on XP without installing any drivers, but found it would occasionally cause lags whilst writing text and that a couple of keys were in different places/ a couple didnt work, so I put it away.

I've dug it out again and been using it for the past week on Windows 7, as I figured it'd find drivers automatically (which it did) and wondered if it could be ebayed, as such i'd obviously want to check it worked fine! It seems to, all text problems are fixed, but one or two keys don't work at all still, and I don't have any access to a Mac to try it out on!

I was wondering if anyone knew if they were supposed to, or if this was due to slight differences between the OS's - I don't know much about Macs but it seems the keys are those relating to cursor movement and shortcuts.

the keys are:

the right hand apple shortcut (the left hand one works the same as the windows key)
the left, down and right of the arrow keys
the whole right hand pad with numbers on, except the / key and the Number lock key.

Marty_J

It sounds as though it's a driver issue. IIRC, those keys didn't work on my Mac's keyboard when I tried out Windows 7. Once I installed Apple's Windows drivers however, they worked fine.

el_gringo_3

Thanks mate. Guessed that'd be the case, just didn't want to put it on ebay as tested and working and then get my bum bitten.

BikerEd

Brand new latest style wired Apple keyboard is £28. Old style (big white keys, numeric keypad, clear plastic case) is not available any more and is worth very little to Mac users. But of course, on eBay there is a market for just about anything so you might get lucky.