Keyboard and Mouse for Mac mini Question

I'm trying to convince my mom to buy a mac and she's probably going to get the cheaper mac mini.
Question about the keyboard and mouse. Does it have to be apple? She doesn't want to spend more money on a keyboard and mouse, so can she use the old one from her old gateway or e-machine? If she can, that means she'll have to know which button are which with respect to the apple button and option, so I may just go ahead and buy her the apple keyboard anyways.
And about the mouse, I assume any old mouse will work just fine?

Unfortunately I can only speak english and a bit of French and German, but really not that much!
How about this?
La sua tastiera della Mamma ed il Topo inseriranno soltanto direttamente in un mac mini se usano il Connettore di USB standard. Se sono il più vecchio P/2 connettori di tastiera di stile e topo che sono arrotondato nella forma, dovrà comprare un dispositivo adattore piccolo che converte il collegamento in una forma di USB. Lei dovrebbe essere in grado di raccogliere questi dispositivi adattori per un paio di dollari / le libbre, ma il certianly un lotto meno di una serie di tastiera di USB e topo nuova, dunque nessuno bisogno preoccuparsi lí!
-Pos

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