Reviews for Apple Wireless Keyboard - Russian

I bought this keyboard 3.5 years ago with my iMac and it continues to work with no problems. The keys have a soft feel with a good amount of "give" when pressed. The bluetooth setup was very simple and have never lost connection. I use the apple rechargeable batteries and only have to change them every 3-4 months at most. I would recommend this to everyone who is will to give up the numerical pad for some extra room

13 of 17 people found this useful

i bought my first one at the apple store with a mac mini and trackpad. it worked brilliantly for almost a year until my kid spilled my beer on it. now its in his misc. junk play drawer. so i bought a new one from best buy, being the closest apple store is an hour away. this one was complete junk. after two weeks it started losing connection every 15 seconds, and in mid type it will just repeat the same letter over and overrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and say that the batteries are dead when they're 2 days old. its on my coffee table and my mini is hooked up to my tv so i cant have an unsightly cord halfway across the room to trip over so i guess its time to go to the apple store or order one and cross my fingers. since i cant rate both individual keyboards i have to give it a 3. 5 for the first one and 1 for the second. wish me luck with the 3rd.

9 of 18 people found this useful

The Apple Wireless Keyboard is awesome, since with its small size, I can just use my left hand with it, with no issues. My right hand has limited mobility, so a small keyboard that works with just one hand, works wonders for me.

19 of 29 people found this useful

The Apple Wireless Keyboard is just so-so. I was surprised to find Apple does not offer a wireless keyboard with the usual numeric keypad and arrow/cursor keypad. A USB keyboard with those is still available, but they push the wireless model instead, because they offer only four USB ports on the new iMacs. I always miss the ten-key numeric keypad and the cursor keypad. This is a poor design choice.

The other major issue is battery life. To be fair, I've only had to replace the batteries twice in about four months since getting it. The Apple Magic Mouse, by comparison, eats batteries like candy, every week.

I see that another vendor's keyboards, sold by the Apple Store, offer solar power recharge to avoid frequent battery changes. This is a smart design feature that Apple should use.

But the first thing that happened when I went to replace the batteries the second time? The battery cap rolled away and got lost, never to appear again. Because the cap is also the contact for battery power, the keyboard was now useless. I don't find a way to order the cap by itself. I bought a new keyboard, the same model. But surprise! The Mac didn't want to recognize the new keyboard while busy asking for my password...which I couldn't type with the new, unrecognized keyboard. So...aha, the end cap is interchangeable, so I'm using the old keyboard with the new battery cap, but I'd really like an end cap, to have a spare keyboard. I will ask an Apple person about the end caps, and update if that's doable.

Now, seeing the solar option with full keypads, I will likely put the spare, with the missing cap, in for recycling, and buy the other product.

47 of 61 people found this useful

This is a good little keyboard, but I am not sure it belongs on the mac. I have to say I was less then excited about this item mainly because of the lack of 10 key on it. I hated having to replace the batteries all the time since our computer receives heavy use. But I do love to use it when I am typing on my iPad 2 or my iPad mini. All in all its a good little keyboard but when I order my next Mac, I will opt for a wired version of both the mouse and the keyboard.

37 of 51 people found this useful

Three months old. Eats up batteries far too quickly. Same for the mouse. Brand new batteries and continued "Connection Lost" resulting in last key press repeating endlessly until "Connection established" again. Wasted way more time fighting this thing than its worth. I'll stick with my extended USB board with a numeric keypad. This one is going straight to the landfill.

16 of 33 people found this useful

Fits my needs to a T.

12 of 15 people found this useful

Bought to use with my MacBook and ended up buying a second to use with my Apple TV. Lightweight with nice key action. Wish they would make one with a number keypad.

8 of 10 people found this useful

I read some of these reviews and quite frankly I was a bit irritated! First of all let me say that this keyboard is the best I have ever used. The feedback you get from the keyboard is perfect. Not to light or heavy. The design is great! If you turn off the keyboard there is no issues during transport. Let me end by saying that if you are looking for a great keyboard that won't brake the bank then look no further because you found it.

13 of 15 people found this useful

Rounded up to a two, but really APPLE is not using hardly any of its design skills on this one. AA Batteries, really? They couldn't figure out how to make it chargeable? because I'm pretty sure they have the chargeable-small-device thing figured out.
also, the thing starts warning me that batteries are low when they're still almost half charged. So now it's been warning me regularly for the last month and a half, it's pretty annoying. And there should be a keyboard lock built into it so it does not turn your laptop on when you accidentally hit a key (or which happens easily in your backpack.) Aside from being super-irritating I think this drains the keyboard batteries.To get around this you need to always remember to turn your bluetooth off on your computer when not using the keyboard, and/or take the batteries out of the keyboard. lame!
BTW the keyboard itself works fine to type on, but if that's all I needed I would buy a corded one and save some $

20 of 26 people found this useful