Apple Keyboard October 24th, 2007 | by Josh Norem
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Features and Design Obviously the Apple keyboard is not designed to compete with those gaming keyboards. It’s designed to be simple, elegant, and space-saving. In fact, we replaced our G15 with the Apple keyboard for testing and found we now had about six inches of new desk space available. Yes, it’s that small. The keyboard features a low-profile design, and sits about a half-inch off your desktop at the top of its gently sloping upward tilt. There are two non-powered USB ports on either side, beneath the top of the keyboard which are useful for a mouse or other non-power-sucking item. You will not be able to plug in an external hard drive, for example, but a mouse or USB key will be fine. Aside from that, there’s not much else for PC users, but if you use a Mac there are function keys for brightness, Expose, volume, eject, play/pause and others.
Most PC-based keyboards offer not only the standard layout of keys, but row upon row of extra keys, widgets, doo-dads, and the like to add to the usefulness of the keyboard; but not the Apple keyboard. This keyboard is just that - a keyboard. You have your letter keys, number keys, and a number pad, and that’s it. To some, this might be a blessing (who uses all those macro keys anyway?). To others, it might be a detriment. If you’re looking for a full-fledged G15 competitor look elsewhere.
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by Genie on November 8, 2009:
“I'm getting electric shocks from my new keyboard almost every time I leave and come back to it. Aside from that it's beautful and I love the buttons. They are compact without being close together like on laptops. Do all of these things give electric...” More...