I hope it doesn't have the Apple symbol on the "alt" key!
The "alt" key is the "option" key.

Note also that use of the special startup keys (e.g. Command(Apple) + S for single-user mode) may not work on anything other than Apple keyboards.

I think that if one is truly h4r|) k0r3 (translation from l337: hard core), one should consider buying one of the gaming keyboards that has, like, a bajillion buttons and allows you to map whatever function you want to them. People who want options should just be tickled to death by these! And if you like customizability, well, you don't have a choice anyway because the keys are all screwy! It would be great! ...yeah, need to get some sleep.

If you are really hardcore

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Hmm... so instead of 'Shift-home', I hit 'Apple-shift-left arrow' - and instead of 'delete' I hit 'Apple-delete', but wait, don't hit the 'delete' key on the right, you have to hit the delete key on the left.

Wow! Thats so much more self-explanatory and intuitive than a pc!!

And in Mac OSX 10.5.1.4.12.3, instead of hitting 'a', you will now have to hit 'Apple-shift-a-down arrow' while sitting on your right hand and winking with your left eye.

heh - I'm just teasing Mac fanboys - I've only just started using a Mac, and I do quite like it. Especially that there are no craptastic implementations like a REGISTRY which gets cluttered and slows down your machine, and.... sorry, I'm rambling.....

figz,
man I had to laugh to read the title of your post.
Turns out there are a lot of migrators from windows right now.

I am willing to learn to adapt as much as possible. But I would love to crack open the keyboard mapping. I wonder how much of it is exposed, and how much is compiled?

I LOVE the eject key!

I mean I know we can screw with keyboard shortcuts in the pref pane. But even that functionality is limited. It lets you launch stuff, which is cool. But I want to empty the bit bucket (trash) with a key press.

Wait til you try opition-clicking the close button (or the minimize button) with a bunch of windows open either in the Finder, or any other application. Next, try doing the same thing while holding down the shift key!

I used Automator to create a little tool that just does a Move to Trash on any selected file(s) and then used FruitMenu to add it to my right-click context menu. I find it quicker than the old Windows hitting delete (my missing of which is why I did this in the first place) since my hand is already on the mouse to select my victim(s).

Odd...my CM already has "Move to Trash". And although I too am a FruitMenu user, I don't recall doing anything special to put that CM item there, I thought it was always there. (And on investigation, my FruitMenu CM list doesn't include it, so it's not there via FruitMenu)

I don't use FruitMenu, and I have it too. I think it's been there for a long time. I don't remember when I first saw it, but I'm pretty sure it was years ago. It's just one of many 'short cuts' that I've never gotten in the habit of using.