It slayed me how Apple around that era used to count the USB ports built into the keyboard in the total number of ports. I recall the iMac G4 literature where they simply added the number of ports on the system unit to the number of ports on the keyboard without accounting for the fact that in the real world *you'd have to plug the keyboard into one of the ports on the system unit before the ports on the keyboard could, you know, do anything*. If you're really charitable I guess that gives you the same gross port count as a PC with a USB keyboard *not* including a mouse passthrough attached, IE, one more than you actually get.

Heh, I guess that applied to the G4 towers as well.

Of course, the last 2003 (MDD-era) vintage PC motherboard I dealt with had six onboard USB 2.0 ports plus a header for two more on the front panel. Oh well. it's not like anyone's ever accused Apple of giving their customers *too much* for their money...