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Yeah Full Keyboard Access isn't great
Authored by: jason mark on Aug 11, '03 06:51:31PM

The big problem I had with full keyboard access is unless you use function keys, it only works in some applications.

My wife is a keyboard freek, and she's always missed her Windows computer because of that. Lately she's been so frusterated trying to use the open/save dialogs (which thankfully are going away) and the painfully slow UI of OSX, that she's considering going back to Windows.

I keep trying to tell her that launchbar makes up for all 3 of those issues... but she's not buying it. I have a 866mhz 12in AlBook, and the othe day I sat down at a 350mhz iMac running OS9 the other day and I thought "Wow, Word and Filemaker are so responsive on this machine!" It's a little sad when a 3 year old machine can make me envious.... :(



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Yeah Full Keyboard Access isn't great
Authored by: TvE on Aug 12, '03 04:25:13AM

You don't HAVE toi use the function key in order to use Full Keyboard Access - you can configure it to use any shortcuts you like.

I chose the preset that uses "Letter Keys" - EG CTRL-M for menu and CTRL-D for the dock...



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[OT] speed of AlBook
Authored by: hayne on Aug 12, '03 10:01:36AM
I have a 866mhz 12in AlBook, and the othe day I sat down at a 350mhz iMac running OS9 the other day and I thought "Wow, Word and Filemaker are so responsive on this machine!" It's a little sad when a 3 year old machine can make me envious
How much RAM do you have in your AlBook? OS X does need lots of RAM to make it fast. You should have at least 512MB.

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