“In addition to the ultra-thin aluminum keyboard Apple unveiled for the iMac last month, a similarly proportioned Bluetooth wireless version was also introduced,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“The entire keyboard is ultra thin apart from the cylindrical battery compartment, which also serves to raise the top end of the keyboard so that it lays at a comfortable typing angle. A metal plug unscrews from the left end of the battery compartment with a coin or the edge of a key. Drop in the batteries as indicated and it screws back into place and locks into position,” Dilger reports. “There’s a power button on the opposite end of the battery compartment for turning the keyboard off in order to save your batteries while it’s not in use.”
“Like the previous version of Apple’s Bluetooth keyboard (and every other Bluetooth keyboard), the new version doesn’t have any USB ports for attaching other peripherals. The new version also drops the numeric keypad, inverted T arrow keys and other extra keys on Apple’s previous wireless model to deliver a smaller profile device that is nearly two thirds the width, and ultra-light,” Dilger reports.
Dilger takes readers on a photo-illustrated setup and unpacking tour, plus a look at the Apple keyboard’s features, an operational mystery, and a tantalizing future potential in the full article here.