Reviews for Apple Wireless Keyboard - Swiss

Having both a Macbook air and this wireless keyboard is a treat. The wireless keyboard (as well as the wired keyboard) have virtually the same layout, save the function button, smaller control and alt keys, and small arrow-pad. This means that as I move from laptop-keyboard to wireless-keyboard, I do not have to adjust my typing habits to compensate for altered ergonomics.

The tactile response of the keys is noticeable yet not wearisome.

Bluetooth distance has never been a problem for me even paired with an tower outfitted with an external USB bluetooth dongle.

I am a daily user and have replaced the batteries in my laptop twice in about 7 months.

No gripes here.

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It's certainly sleek, durable, and minimalistic but none of these help if you use your iMac for productivity/office intentions.

As a senior in college, I use my iMac every day. Word docs, Excel reports, etc.
- Unless you turn off your keyboard (and Magic Mouse) every time you're away, you'll go through 4 AA batteries every month.
- That saying "You don't realize what you had until it's gone" certainly applies to the home, directional and numeric key pad.

Look on those .Org selling sites and you'll notice plenty customers want to get rid of theirs since it came with their iMac, (like me).

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I'm a road warrior and have only worked from a laptop going on 16 years. I finally made room on my desk at home for a monitor so bought Apple keyboard and trackpad. Easy transition when I get the opportunity to work at home and doesn't take up much space. Quickly power off and put away in drawer.

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I guess it had to happen eventually, simply by the laws of probability. My lifetime run of one brilliant Apple product after another came to a crashing halt when I bought one of the new Apple wireless keyboards.

What were you guys thinking when you designed this thing? O.K., I know, it is a beautiful design to LOOK AT. True. No question. But try typing with the thing for more than five or ten minutes, especially if you usually type more quickly than at a leisurely hunt and peck speed. It's brutal on your hands (and I've played piano all my life, so my hands are not wimpy): there is no travel in the keys, so it's like typing on cement. After a while, it hurts! After a few hours, even my hands ache. I'm sorry, but it's just not well thought out for its actual purpose as an input device. As desk sculpture, it's great. For actually typing for any length of time, it's just not up to Apple spec.

The flat surface shape and wide spacing of the keys makes for uncomfortable typing as well. If the keys could have a concave surface, and be closer together, it would be a great improvement.

Sorry to go on at such length; but I didn't want to just rant so it took a bit to include some specifics. If these areas can be improved (harsh/hard key "action", flat key surface, and too wide spacing of keys), it could become both a beautiful and more functional keyboard.

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I have the full (wired) Extended Keyboard at home and am using the Wireless keyboard here at work.

First of all, the keys on all of these new keyboards feel amazing. It's quite a jump from an older apple keyboard and particularly from a standard PC keyboard, but once you get used to it, older keyboards feel like those old manual typewriters, plus the design is just incredible.

Anyway, the wireless feature is very cool with the lack of cables on my desk, but to be honest, the keyboard is sitting right next to my laptop, so I can't comment on the wireless range (or the necessity of wireless). Bluetooth pairing works flawlessly. I take my laptop to meetings many times per day (too many) and the keyboard knows exactly when I leave and return and it reconnects - there is nothing needed to be done.

So, since I'm used to the larger, extended keyboard at home, I have a hard time with these few items:
1. The lack of the numeric keypad (obvious)
2. That enter button on the extended numeric keypad perfectly located at the right corner of the keyboard - I live for that button.
3. The additional "fn" (function) button on this wireless keyboard located in the bottom-left - I loath this button because I miss the CTRL, OPT and CMD buttons all the time
4. I really dislike the need to use this "fn" button for some common key functions like ENTER (rather than RETURN) and DELETE (rahter than BACKSPACE)

I guess the ultimate would be a wireless version of the extended keyboard, but that is not yet available. I plan to switch my wireless keyboard with the wired extended keyboard.

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Greatest keyboard i have ever owned,period. I love the minimalist design and the low surface keys are really easy to use.

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i buy the 27" iMac and get this cheeseball keyboard that comes with it. don't get me wrong, i'm sure it would be great if you were looking to take it with you on a plane or maybe if you don't have a desk.

it's just too small. no number pad, page up, page down....you can't even use it as a weapon if needed.

just my thoughts. i would take a corded full length keyboard over this any day.

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This keyboard is fine, but seems too-clever-by-half. Why no number pad? Or, back-delete key? Or, page up/page down, end, etc. keys? As someone else pointed out: it is great if you're sitting on a a plane or bus with a laptop; but for serious office work, it is inadequate. I bought a full-sized wireless Apple keyboard about 4 years ago and still use it (like, right now). Works fine, is not a battery-hog, and is full function. It would be nice if Cupertino would give us a choice of mini- or full-sized wireless.

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The review that says short battery life is wrong, the battery life depends on the type of batteries that you use. I use lithium batteries, I change the batteries around every 3 months and I use it daily. Also yes, there is no forward delete button but you can just press the Fn button and the backspace (delete) button. Also you can just scroll up with the arrow keys, you don't need special buttons that are only for going up a page and down a page. There is also probably a keyboard short cut for that too.This is just to let you know that it is a great keyboard and the people who wrote those reviews clearly haven't used it yet.

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I love this keyboard. i've had the ipad for about three or four months, and my only complaint about it is typing. i avoided typing longer emails on it because it just took me so long to "hunt and peck" on the ipad. i finally got the wireless keyboard - set up was a breeze. and after only playing with it one day, i would say this is the essential component that was missing from my ipad experience. i was taught to type properly (on a typewriter!) and so i never could get used to typing on the ipad; the keyboard makes all the difference for me.

my only "complaint" is that i can't use functions; or the arrows to scroll through a pre-populated list - like a keyboard on a computer. but since i got the keyboard for typing, and not those other things, i'm ok with that.

i highly recommend this product for people who miss the bumps under the "f" and "j" when typing on the ipad.

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