“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.
I personally would like to have one of these wireless keyboards but I’d need one with a keypad. It’s a bit irritating to me that I ended up buying the wall bracket for my 24″ iMac but have to have a supid assed USB cable strung from the Apple Keyboard to the computer in order to use the computer for my accounting duties. The wireless keyboard is the way to go when you have your iMac wall mounted but if you need the 10 key pad, like I do, your screwed and have to use the cabled keyboard. I guess I’m going to have to look at non-Apple wireless full sized keyboards with the 10 key pad included in order to get the setup to function as intended with the wall mount.
Agreed 100%; that’s the one thing holding me back. I have a trackball I like OK, but not nearly as much as the Macbook Touchpad.
MacDaddy, can you not buy the ‘old’ wireless keyboard, you know the white one?
I just got the new bluetooth keyboard a few days ago. I love it so far. It looks extremely modern without the numeric keypad…what’s old is new again I suppose. The best feature of all though is that the nasty see-through pet hair and crumb museum from the old Apple keyboard is gone. Looks much cleaner; makes the old keyboard look cheap, dirty and clumsy.
We just hooked ours up…love the feel and the look, but can’t shut the G4 desktop down with the keyboard plugged in…she just restarts every time. Does anybody have similar experience, or solution?