Accessing the menus on a Mac using the keyboard – impossible?

I went to the Mac-store the other day to look for a computer bag but ended up playing with the Macs they had on display. I have been playing with the idea of getting a Mac Mini to use at home, but one thing bothered me though: I was unable to access the menus using the keyboard.

None of the store employees knew how to do it but instead told me that: “OS X is a mouse operating system…” This is totally unacceptable to me so I left the store and kind of gave up on the idea of becoming a Mac owner.

After this experience I was very pleasently surprised when my big brother found out how (via one of our customers where a couple of users uses Mac). Pressing Ctrl-F2 will access the menu.

So now it is back to the store… 🙂