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10.4: Boot another OS while OS X is hibernating
Authored by: digitol on Mar 06, '07 06:49:11PM

I know it's ticky-tacky but, true mac users refer to the "alt" key as the COMMAND KEY or Apple Key. Alt is ugly. Alt is for the windoze world. Please help keep our world clean. :P



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10.4: Boot another OS while OS X is hibernating
Authored by: digitol on Mar 06, '07 06:51:49PM

i meant option key. is just option key not alt, ever. Period, end of story.



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10.4: Boot another OS while OS X is hibernating
Authored by: nickv2002 on Mar 06, '07 11:42:25PM

True, but only if you're using an Apple or other Made for Mac keyboard. The author might have been attempting to avoid any confusing for people with Macs using Windows style keyboards (of course, such people should know that Option is the same as Alt).



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10.4: Boot another OS while OS X is hibernating
Authored by: marco.trive on Mar 07, '07 12:25:38PM
I just wanted to be as clear as possible and I think that this is the only way to be clear to switchers and to powerusers.
alt = option
and
command = apple key

Apple note: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24566

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