Fri
Sep 28
2:24pm
My new Apple aluminium keyboard
Spiffy, ain’t it? I’ve been using one of the old iMac keyboards (clear plastic, black keys) but decided to treat myself.
It feels beautiful to use - identical to my MacBook keyboard (which I love) - and a thousand times better than the old keyboard. It looks a million bucks too, and makes the old keyboard look like a relic from the 80s.
I nearly waited another couple of weeks for one of the Bluetooth ones but decided (a) I wanted the numeric keypad (the wireless ones don’t have one), and (b) I wasn’t that fussed about having a single cable on my desk given that my mouse is a wireless one.
The mouse wireless thingy slots nicely into one of the USB ports and will live there permanently (you can see it in the first photo), while the other USB port can power my digital camera when I need to upload a new batch of photos. Strangely the port doesn’t power my 2gb USB key though. Not sure why.
Yet another cool, functional product from Apple that makes me feel happy that I bought it. Would I have felt the same way about one of these? Probably not.