Reviews for Apple Wireless Keyboard - Arabic

Just picked up the wireless keyboard today and I'm currently using it to type this review. Not only is it aesthetically pleasing, but it's a delight to use. It feels like there's absolutely no lag between the typing and the appearance of the text on the screen. The keys are crisp but sensitive and very responsive. I have an older iMac, running Leopard and it works beautifully. Most of the functions at the top don't work (I'm assuming it's due to my old OS), but I'm pleasantly surprised that some of them do... I was frustrated that I couldn't open my dashboard easily with the Magic Mouse, but when I press the "volume up" button on my new wireless keyboard the dashboard magically appears :-)

All of the main keys (including eject) work beautifully. If you're running OSX10.5.8 and were not sure it'd be wise to pick up one of these keyboards, I can assure you that it will work nicely.

Can't wait to get a Mac Mini! Happy Holidays!

13 of 13 people found this useful

great for typing fast for making notes and is an awsome energy saver but it does not have the home and search keys on the keyboard for the i pad \ i phone etc.

31 of 36 people found this useful

Love the look of this keyboard, however there are a few buttons that are missing from it that, coming from a PC, I miss horribly.

These buttons include: Home, End, Delete, (and less frequently) Page Up/Down

Coming from a person that is used to PC's, these are hugely missed. It's much more convenient to be able to delete text backward AND forward, but unless you want to use a combination of keys, you can't do that (which decreases any ergonomics for the keyboard itself)

It's exceptionally compact, which I do like quite a bit. They did scrimp and save a bit on the paint job, though, as it took a tumble off my couch and hit the trim on my wall and scraped the cheap silver paint clean off. It's an esthetic issue, honestly, but still an issue none-the-less.

The battery on this thing is amazing. I've had it since September and use it nearly on a daily basis (though, admittedly, this Mac is connected to the TV, so it's not used AS much as the mouse). This being said the battery is at 75% and I've never had to change batteries yet. It's just nice not having to have a keyboard that needs charging every month.

Back to a bit of bad - the ergonomics are just not there. There's only one position that the keyboard can be placed as there is not levers or height increase flaps. It's not a huge thing as I type on my lap, but if I were doing things professionally, this could be of concern to me.

Like I said before this is connected to a TV, and so I don't do a bunch of this anyways, however you should be aware that they decided to get rid of the number pad to save space / make more compact. I don't miss it, but if you wanted this option then this would not be the keyboard for you. IIRC you *can* buy a num pad by itself, but that would need different batteries, and unless you're doing accounting, you're not going to need it.

33 of 47 people found this useful

When it actually works, it's great, but the connection drops every few minutes, and has since I purchased it a couple of weeks ago. I'll spend ten or fifteen seconds at a time waiting for the keyboard to reconnect so I can retype my sentences. Worse are the stuck kkkkkkkkkeys, but this morning, that stuck key was "delete," which was... utterly infuriating. So, here I am. The batteries are brand new; the keyboard is 18" or so from the computer; the keyboard is paired and is a "favorite;" the only other BT device is my flawlessly working Magic Trackpad; I have the latest firmware on an iMac running 10.6.8. It's brand new. Yet, I can't work with this thing without a constant stream of interruptions. I hate this keyboard, and would be remiss not to say so here.

24 of 30 people found this useful

This keyboard is of great quality, i've never used a wireless keyboard before and this keyboard is very exceptional. It works great when i play online games (like SCII: which require lots of quick key combinations) i never feel any lag between what i press and what happens.
Any other wireless keyboard i use is going to have a lot to match up to.

Lastly, i was having an issue when i pressed the space bar and when i let go the space kept going. As i panicked, the keyboard "lost connection" and then "connected" again. I was so surprised it had its own failsafe that i stopped what i was doing to write this review and share how awesome the keyboard is.

Amazing.

49 of 54 people found this useful

I would love to say I love this keyboard, but I can't. I generally make a lot of use of both the numeric keypad and the arrow keys. This keyboard has no numeric keypad and the directional arrows are very truncated. I wish Apple would offer a full size wireless keyboard as an alternative. Heck, even allow it to have additional battery capacity due to it's longer length, and I think they would have a winner.

I understand the compact size works well for many. All I am saying is that choice is good, and I wish there was a choice of full size for those who need it and would still like wireless.

54 of 62 people found this useful

The design, size, the feel of each key press is very good. One major problem that forced me to go back to the wired keyboard was that it would lose connection and then reconnect after a few seconds, at least a few times a day, and it was too much distraction.

19 of 20 people found this useful

This is the only kind of keyboard that actually increased my typing speed instead of decreasing it. There's no need to adjust or make any modifications. The battery life is great and I am getting spoiled by this! Using it on my iPad 2 is awesome and I no longer have to get used to typing on the touch screen or having the on-screen keyboard blocking my view! The only reason I gave this product 4 stars instead of 5 is because that I actually have to use batteries. It doesn't come with a recharger and I hope that in the future, apple will make a rechargeable one that easily recharges from a wall outlet or by usb.

42 of 44 people found this useful

I just purchased this in order to use it with my iPad, rather than having to clunk around on the ipad keyboard. So far, I really love this product. It's lightweight and the keystrokes respond nicely to my typing, infinitely better than having to email using the iPad keyboard. I bought the incase origami stand to go with it and the two work really well together. Now I can leave my laptop at home when I don't need to use excel, word or flash, which I'm verry happy about.

34 of 35 people found this useful

I got this wireless keyboard with my Imac. A friend bought an Imac a year earlier, and that one came with the extended (cabled) keyboard. The extended keyboard has dedicated numeric pad and seems somewhat wider and easier to type on. I've gotten used to the wireless version, but it doesn't seem as comfortable as a full keyboard. Also, the key 'throw' is short like all apple keyboards and that takes some getting used to. Overall it's ok. Battery life is very good. Perhaps six months or so. As for set-up, synching, etc., no worries there, either.

16 of 17 people found this useful