*** (3 of 5 stars)
I have had this keypad for some time now and use it every day. I use it with an iMac running Snow Leopard along with other input devices:
Left to Right - Apple trackpad, Apple keyboard, Belkin Keypad, Apple mouse
Pros & Cons
+ From a form/fit aspect it is the closest keypad I've seen that matches the Apple keyboard. Others are made of painted plastic.
+ Pairing wasn't a problem but OSX sees it as a standard keyboard. Some users may experience pairing issues if they get hung up on the fact that OSX doesn't recognize the exact model.
- User cannot change the name of the keypad like you can with Apple devices. Shows up as "YourType Wireless Keypad"
- The keypad does not report battery level via the OS. I usually swap out the batteries when I swap out the keyboard batteries.
When I first use the keypad (after it's asleep) there is a delay in the first few key strokes while it wakes up. After about 2 seconds all the characters you typed show up on screen. No keystrokes are lost so I've gotten used to just typing and knowing that it will catch up.
Thanks for checking in - I got it shortly after posting that and can echo some of your sentiments.
-Agree on form completely, its about as close to a perfect match as I can imagine short of Apple producing one themselves.
-It is a bit odd that it shows up as a standard keyboard. One time when paired it asked me to push the key immediately to the right of the left shift key.
-No battery level is definitely annoying. Also, I took my keypad on a recent trip and forgot to turn it off, after about 48 hours the batteries had totally drained.
-I purchased at an Apple store about a month ago, the box included AA batteries however they expired in August of 2013, making me think this had been sitting around for
over a year. They were dead of course, which is a minor annoyance but also is not the greatest vote of confidence. What if there was a hardware revision in that time?
-Lastly, this is probably unique to my situation, but I can't get it to pair when I'm on 2.4 Ghz WiFi. When I originally set it up I was on 5 Ghz and it worked no problem but have since moved to a temp location and only have 2.4 Ghz. I have an Apple bluetooth KB, a Logitech mouse with unifying receiver, the number pad and my WiFi in the immediate area. Anytime I try to connect the keypad I get bounced off WiFi immediately, so I haven't used it in 3 weeks. Called Apple support and they gave me the usual script, reboot, try guest account, check hard drive for errors, which were all fruitless of course. She recommended calling back and asking for a senior tech, I'm not sure how much more time I feel like wasting on this so I have yet to try.
