Saturday, February 16, 2008

My Frustration With Apple Keyboards

I plan on buying a keyboard from Apple. They make very pretty keyboards. They changed the keyboards a few months ago, and they are really pretty. However, I find something wrong with the wireless version of this keyboard. They insist that if you want a wireless keyboard, then you also want a smaller keyboard. While I can understand the idea, they should have included an option to get a full-size wireless keyboard. The reason? I really like having a numeric keypad, as well as bigger keys. I have a desk that makes it difficult and a little unpractical to use a wired keyboard.

I guess I'll have to buy the older wireless keyboard from Apple, which is full-sized. Or, I will have to buy the Microsoft keyboard for Mac. If you ask me, I think Microsoft makes the best keyboards.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Emmanuel

I didn't think you had a mac. It's very unusual for someone with a Windows computer to buy a mac keyboard. In fact, in all my years of computing (since 1985) I've never seen it or heard of it.

In the old days of computing, Apple always had different keyboard and mouse connecters. Now both share USB style connectors. Another reason is Apple keyboards have an Apple key to the left and right of the space bar which is an extra key I believe. When I use Bootcamp and run Windows on my iMac there are some keyboard shortcuts such as in Excel when you want to manually wrap writing underneath in a cell you use ALT+Enter. As I recall I had to try several combinations of keys before I got it to wrap correctly.

Take care and good job with your blog.