Comments on: Review: Apple’s New Aluminum Keyboard

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:42:25 +0000

This is a great source, and I think you talked me into buying apples newish keyboard. Thanks for the information.

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:11:15 +0000

That sounds really weird, I never had a problem like this.

Did you already ask your local Mac geniuses for a solution? I can imagine they’ll want to replace your keyboard.

By: Raul Lopez

Raul Lopez — Sun, 30 May 2010 03:55:29 +0000

I bought the large aluminum wire keyboard and I have tried the numeric keypad. only the non-numeric keys work. the keyboard viewer does not blink when the numbers 0-9 or the period are typed. could this be a problem with the actual keyboard or has anybody else seen this?

i am using os-x 10.6.3 which i just installed. the same problem happened with os 10.5.

thanks.

By: WayneT3

WayneT3 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:28:56 +0000

I just converted from the original keyboard on my PowerMac G5 (hard disk recording setup), and my fingers are still rejoicing two days later. The only thing that could possibly make this keyboard any better would be maybe a cupholder, or a GPS unit or something like that. (BTW, I brought the keyboard to work with me this morning, and it works flawlessly on tne DELL OptiPlex that I use there…)

By: Tobi

Tobi — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:41:31 +0000

I couldn’t resist any longer and buyed one last week. I use it as external keyboard on my macbook pro and I really like it. Typing on it is much cooler than on my old logitech keyboard.

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:55:06 +0000

@Pierre: Sure, but those keys are intended to control the Exposé and Dashboard functions, so there shouldn’t be a need for reprogramming.

But with the hack mentioned above, everything works fine. And it should do so as well after the latest keyboard software update.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:44:17 +0000

“But I’d like it even better if the Exposé and Dashboard keys worked without having to press fn.”

Can’t you reprogram these keys in the “Dashboard & Exposé” System Preferences?

By: Xeem

Xeem — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:10:50 +0000

I’m pretty happy with my Kensington SlimType keyboard, but this new keyboard is very tempting….

By: Bastian

Bastian — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:56:03 +0000

Ich find die neuen Tastaturen von Apple wahsinnig schön. Sie errinnern mich irgendwie immer an leckere Schokolade.

By: links for 2007-09-03 « gp

links for 2007-09-03 « gp — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:29:40 +0000

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By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:09:20 +0000

Hey, that’s great for the ordinary user who doesn’t like to mess around with Pacifist and the like — thanks for mentioning it!

By: johnny

johnny — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:34:33 +0000

Very nice and detailed review of the keyboard!

unfortunately i experienced the same issues with the f3 and f4 keys not working, but i used the installer a friend of mine put together, which contains the updated dock.

he followed the steps described on joe mullins site, but packaged it, so not so techie users could use it too.

anyone who’s interested can donwload it from his site: http://twsibtth.chrisandtheothergirls.com/blog/possible-apple-keyboard-function-fix-package

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:44:42 +0000

Thank you very much for the great tip — steps 3 and 4 fixed the problem, everything works fine now!

I included a link to your tutorial in the post and updated the respective paragraph.

By: Joe Mullins

Joe Mullins — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:03:20 +0000

Julian,

The F3/F4 dashboard/Expose keys don’t work because somewhere along the line Dock.app isn’t getting updated properly. I’ve got a fix detailed on my blog here.

http://joemullins.com/archive/2007/08/21/fix-for-apple-aluminum-keyboard-dashboard-and-expose-keys-not-working.php

Try steps 3&4 first as they might fix your problem, if not, do the whole process.

This will get the keys working.

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:36:31 +0000

Nope, they control iTunes as well as other media applications — they work the same way the Apple Remote does: per default, they control iTunes. But when your active application is for example Quicktime or iPhoto, you can affect video playback or start a slideshow.

Thanks for the comment, I updated the post to avoid further misapprehension!