Apple Keyboard love

For the not the first time I found myself looking a nice, clean, white Apple Keyboard and thinking it would be a great replacement for those butt ugly black Logitech keyboards. The Apple keyboards are more like those I used to use with various Unix workstations and even VTxxx terminals back in the day. But would one work with a PC? Well its USB right so why not? Fortunately my neighbor is a long time Mac addict and let me plug one into my trusty laptop.

As expected it was recognised right away and basically worked just fine - the option key becomes Alt and the Mac/Apple key becomes a Windows key. The media play/pause/volume keys didn't work but I didn't really expect them to, other than that its a good looking nicely designed keyboard and the wired version is only $29.99 and it includes a USB hub for two more devices. Eat your heart out Logitech!

I've found there is also some software called AppleKeys that will map some of the non-functioning function keys (F13 through 16) to Windows functions, and maybe even get those media keys running. Yay! Now if I can just get definite confirmation the bluetooth version will also work with my hardware...