On 12/26/13, 8:15 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/26/2013 7:41 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:



Update: Just popped a CD into my non-iMac external drive that is
connected to the iMac via USB and I was able to read it on my Macbook
Air, which is using WiFi to connect to the LAN.

Therefore you would be able to access CDs in the device attached to your
wife's machine without moving the CD drive. I can also, of course,
access my server via WiFi, and just for the hell of it, I will try
backing up the Macbook Air via WiFi using SuperDuper! I haven't done
this previously via WiFi.




Good to know but you are way ahead of anything I'll ever have any need
in doing. Besides, if I ever set up Mrs.E.'s computers to file share on
the home network she'd have my head.

I mess around with it with my own computers just to learn how it's done
but it's just as easy to grab the drive from her computer when I need
it. I just have to remember what side is up.

One thing that I need to get soon and before I try to totally transition
to the iMac is a decent keyboard. I can't get used to the one they
include with the iMac. I realize it's the same general size with the
same spacing (minus the numeric pad) but I can't get used to the feel
of it.

I learned to touch type in high school and over the years of typing on
manual and electric typewriters for school projects, Teletype machines
in the Navy and and technical proposals and manuals on computers when in
business, I became a pretty decent typist. Last time I timed it, I was
still in the 60 words per minute range and sometimes faster. I don't
"hunt and peck" and don't have to look at the keyboard. I am typing
this right now while simultaneously watching Pawnstars on TV.

Anyway, the iMac keyboard just doesn't have the "feel" that even the
keyboard on a HP laptop that I am using has. I need one that feels
more mechanical with a deeper action if that makes sense. I've been
looking at what's available and it looks like Logitech makes some that
would be more to my liking. The iMac keyboard drives me nuts.





There are a couple of high end keyboards that are very good. I'll look
up the names. I use a Macally MKEYE, about $20. I like it better than
the Mac keyboard.

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