Best Mac + Linux programmers keyboard

[acidity]

Ok, so I bought a new 20" display screen. Now I use that as an output to my Mac or as an output for a standalone Linux box.

I want to use the same keyboard for both the setup. I code a lot.

So which keyboard do you people suggest to buy so that the transition between mac and linux keyboard layout is least.

 

[acidity]

Anybody?

 

[epochblue]

I don't think there's any difference between the layouts, honestly. The only thing I can see being different is that if you buy a non-Apple keyboard, you'll have a Windows key instead of a Apple/Command key.

My mother uses a Windows keyboard with her Mac and the Windows key, I believe, maps to the Command key automatically.

So, really, as long as your keyboard is USB (because Macs haven't had PS/2 ports for quite some time), you should be just fine; pick whatever keyboard makes you happy.

Of course, if you're really hardcore, you could always check out the Happy Hacking keyboard

 

[acidity]

Thanks.

That helped.

 

[Dunepilot]

...because Macs haven't had PS/2 ports for quite some time...

Just out of interest - Macs had Apple Desktop Bus, not PS/2 ports in the days before USB. As far as I'm aware, no Mac (except maybe the ones in the labs while they were preparing OSX Intel) has ever had a PS/2 port.

 

[epochblue]

Just out of interest - Macs had Apple Desktop Bus, not PS/2 ports in the days before USB. As far as I'm aware, no Mac (except maybe the ones in the labs while they were preparing OSX Intel) has ever had a PS/2 port.

Oh yeah I knew about that bus, but I thought a couple of the desktops, at some point, had PS/2 ports....guess I was mistaken...

 

[aspero]

DAS KEYBOARD! Is my all time favorite!

http://www.daskeyboard.com/

 

[acidity]

****, 90USD for a keyboard. Thats expensive.....but I think I will give it a try. Do you use it with your Mac??

 

[ee99ee]

Interesting keyboard... I wish they had a split keyboard model.