[nycbug-talk] Laptop recommendations

Isaac Levy ike
Mon Jan 23 15:34:42 EST 2006


On Jan 23, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Isaac Levy wrote:
>
>> Thanks Marco,
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Marco Scoffier wrote:
>>
>>>> Just wondering, as I haven't touched a thinkpad for more than a few
>>>> minutes, why are the powerbook keyboards totally useless?
>>> You can't make the caps lock function as a ctrl key.  This is in the
>>> hardware.
>>
>> Interesting.
>
> But incorrect. :)
>
> In Tiger you have this option in the kbd & mouse pref pane - you  
> can remap the splat, command, ctrl and caps-lock keys.
>
> Before Tiger, there was a freeware pref pane to do the same called  
> double-command.
>
> C

Well, this 20+ year mac user just learned a new trick- how about that.

Thanks Charles!

Best,
.ike






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