Opening an App with a keyboard shortcut

Hello all,
I am new to this OS, though I have dabbled in linux distros and thus have become infatuated with the terminal.
How do I set a keyboard shortcut to OPEN a terminal window. I do not want to set a keyboard shortcut to execut once a terminal window is already open.
I guess I could start terminal at boot and let it run in the background but it seems an solution lacking any elegance and would take up ram and processor resources.
Any ideas for a noob?
thanks
-E

Hi. Welcome to Apple Discussions.
You can set Terminal as a Login Item in System Preferences >> Login Items, the resources it uses are miniscule. Or drag Terminal.app to the Dock so you can launch it with a mouse click.
There also <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459"">keyboard shortcuts you try</a> and <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304759">Automator to write scripts.
Hope you find something that works well for you.
-mj
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