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Quick Question - Can the New keyboard sans numeric keypad work with a PC?
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A friend would like to know..
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It's USB. It will work. The function keys probably won't control a PC correctly, but the keys will work fine.
Funny how it used to be the other way around: "will this product work with a Mac?"
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It will work. The Apple key will act as the Windows key (so, it and Alt will be in the wrong position) and the Fn key most likely won't do anything. Some keys will be missing, obviously, but the biggest deal is that the regular delete button isn't there - the key titled delete is really backspace. Without it you cannot do the three-finger salute (ctrl-alt-delete) and that's a major limitation. That combo is required to log in in some cases and to access certain features like the screen to change your password.
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Makes you wonder why there isn't a "ctrl-alt-delete" key on PC keyboards!
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Originally Posted by P 
It will work. The Apple key will act as the Windows key (so, it and Alt will be in the wrong position) and the Fn key most likely won't do anything. Some keys will be missing, obviously, but the biggest deal is that the regular delete button isn't there - the key titled delete is really backspace. Without it you cannot do the three-finger salute (ctrl-alt-delete) and that's a major limitation. That combo is required to log in in some cases and to access certain features like the screen to change your password.
Is there no fn key like on MB(P)s? On those fn-backspace = delete. And three-finger salute becomes four-finger salute. 
On second thought, maybe fn-backspace=delete only works on Macs? Is this a KB thing or a driver thing?
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Originally Posted by Simon
Is there no fn key like on MB(P)s? On those fn-backspace = delete. And three-finger salute becomes four-finger salute.
On second thought, maybe fn-backspace=delete only works on Macs? Is this a KB thing or a driver thing?
Yes, there is an Fn-key, but it's features are not in the hardware. I think the Fn-features in Windows come from the driver package in boot camp. Maybe one can install that on a regular Windows installation as well?
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