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Subject: Re: New (Still Unofficial but Everyone Knows They Exist) Macs
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Date: 5 Oct 90 07:57:09 GMT
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In article <4b30SfK00VQl44KApS@andrew.cmu.edu> jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes:
>I like the keyboard better, too. Nyah. 

	Boy I sure am quoting and replying to a very tiny portion of your
whole letter.

	I personally like the Mac 'standard' keyboard better. What really
seems stupid to me (not mentioning all of the stuff we've been talking
about lately) is WHY Apple stocks TWO different keyboards which are
virtually the same thing.

	To my understanding, the "GS standard" and "Mac standard" 
keyboards (I'm just making those names up) are THE SAME EXACT THING
electronically AND physically except the Mac standard keyboard has around
.5 inch to 1 inch (just a guess) of extra plastic around most of the 
case of the keyboard. I -REALLY like that. It gives you a little bit of a
place to rest your hands on. And from what I remember, it is tilted up
a little bit so if you put it on a flat horizontal surface the keyboard
is at an angle wheras the GS keyboard is basically flat.

	This just seems UTTERLY stupid to me... (as I said, disregard all
of the other utterly stupid things Apple {and other big companies} has
done)...

	Why keep two products in inventory when you could just keep one,
especially when they are the SAME thing except minor differences?

	That would be like having a beige (superior color in my opinion)
3.5" drive for the GS (I'm saying if the GS were still beige) and a
platinum 3.5" drive for the Mac.  

	Now I don't think Apple'd've done that (or maybe that's why they
changed the colors??), but they do the SAME idea with the keyboard...

	It just seems really dumb to me... I guess I shouldn't talk though
since I got my keyboard for $30 used from some other GS user who was upgrading
to a "Mac" extended keyboard... [My GS is upgraded from a //e thus I had no 
detached keyboard for a while]  I still like swiping the keyboard from
my mom's Mac when I'm at home though. Makes a BIG difference in my mind to 
have that little case difference...




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