I just wish the keyboard to work fairly close to iMac keyboard. Windows (labeled Start) and Alt keys are “flipped,” which is annoying. Following this article, I set up the keyboard. Basically
Apple -> System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse (under Hardware submenu) -> Keyboard tab -> Modifier Keys
Select keyboard should be “Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000″ and you just need to swap the Option and Command modifier key bindings. That’s it.
However, the above change makes the key locations resemble that of Mac. I am too used to the PC culture of using Ctrl + some key, and my productivity suffers when I cannot position my left hand that way. Roughly speaking, the Command key on Mac corresponds to the Ctrl key on PC, so I decided to swap them as well:
This works much better for me.
There are quite a few special keys that do not work the ways they do on Windows, but I don’t use them much anyways so it’s good for now. I’ll keep adding instructions as I find them on the web.
