Apple Keyboard
Posted by Notcot on Apr 8, 2010 in Handhelds & PDAs |
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small, robust, great ‘click’, 2x USB (wireless do not have it), no batteries needed (I had wireless and was loosing connection). Overall perfect item.
Rating: 5 / 5
Using this with a laptop and extended desktop, gets the keyboard where you want it without losing a USB socket. Good low-impact keyboard means you can type really fast. Using a wire makes it more reliable than the bluetooth equivalent which is so hit and miss I wish I hadn’t bought it. One moan: shift key slightly sticky.
Rating: 5 / 5
Asthetically it ticks all the right boxes. Its small, solid, easy to use and takes up very little space on the desk. The keys are very easy to type with and produce little fatigue over extended periods of time (Six hours of continuous COD6 should do as a good benchmark!).
There are a few draw backs however… The two inbuilt usb ports are fairly useless. I’ve got a high spec pc but i still recieve a “low usb power” warning when i plug in a simple usb key. Not to worry though. The only other niggle is that there are some keys which arent present. Delete being a major one! Bringing up the task manager baffled me for a while! However there is a simple key combo: Ctrl + Shift + Esc
Overall this keyboard is brilliant all be it with a few quirks!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fantastic little keyboard. I never used the number keypad on my previous full-sized keyboards, so don’t miss that facility in the least. Like a previous reviewer, I found the lack of a ‘delete’ key difficult to get used to. But there is a way to make the backspace key perform like a delete key… just hold down the ‘fn’ key while you press backspace. It then takes two keystrokes to delete… granted… but the facility is there if you want it. For me the tiny footprint is a great space saver, and the feel of the keys as you type is very satisfying. I can’t recommend the keyboard highly enough.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this unit to enable my wife to browse the internet at three paces distance using a 32″ TV. She already uses the machine in this way with the help of her Wacom to play cards, but in order to use the web she needed a keyboard. We did not want to run yet another USB cable across the carpet, so the Apple keyboard was a great solution, having USB inputs into which the Wacom can be plugged. As for compatibility, we plugged and it played – only the odd transposed character position. The delete key works fine with our XP machine. Absolutely delighted!
Incidentally, in the above lounge scenario the supplied cardboard case serves as a good dust-cover for the product: only very minor surgery is needed.
Rating: 5 / 5