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but no engineer in Apple seems capable of figuring out how to create a wireless extended keyboard.
I don't know about 2046 but I do know they did it in 2003.
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Images of Apple Wireless Keyboard With Backlight Keys and Power Button Appear in Online Store [Updated]
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Apple Car, not iCar
I don't know about 2046 but I do know they did it in 2003.
I want one with new buttefly keys and per-key LED lighting and built in force touchpad on the side. No numpad.
If it indeed is a power button, the most it could do is wake/sleep or power down. Can't boot a dead computer unless apple released boot on Bluetooth firmware.
I hate reaching in the back of my Mac mini.
I hate reaching in the back of my Mac mini.
Interestingly it doesn't use the San Francisco font like "the new MacBook" does. You can tell as the edges of the M on the new Macbook are vertical, but aren't on this.
No, I'm sure the 15" will get the latest Intel processors and Force Touch and that's it.
bluetooth firmware + making the keyboard with removable USBC/Lightning cable so it can over wireless or wired.
which should have a built in battery that should get plenty of life and perhaps they can reshape the keyboard to be a bit more ergonomic.
its not like apple to fudge something like this without an explanation...i figure they would have pulled images or updated the page by now
Well, I don't think a power button makes much more sense on a wireless keyboard, either--unless Apple changes something, it can't actually transmit power-on signals to the computer. (Even the wired one would be difficult to do that with; Apple used ADB instead of USB the last time they did have a power key on the keyboard.)
The Eject key also always been somewhat useful as a power button if the computer is already on--I don't think that's unique to the MacBook without an optical drive. Ctrl+Eject will show the shut down/sleep/restart dialog, Cmd+Opt+Eject will put the computer directly to sleep (that's a combo I use all the time), and there are a few other combos as well. The most I could see this doing is eliminating the need for at least one of those modifier keys.
That's not exactly true. Apple briefly had a power key on their USB keyboard: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/TS2222
They did it by violating the USB standard, I believe, and adding an extra pin to the keyboard.
This is pretty terrible if true.. Apple makes it seem like the new MacBook is paving a way with a new chiclet designed keyboard.. but they keep going forward with the old style? So now if you use both the old and new together, it feels weird and inconsistent going between the two? This is very unlike Apple.. Steve would never do this (First time i've actually said and thought this).
To all the people who have keep commenting on the "backlit" features of the keyboard featured.
IT IS NOT BACKLIT ITS BACKLIGHT
big difference
IT IS NOT BACKLIT ITS BACKLIGHT
big difference
A proper backlight in a Apple Keyboard wouldn't be that far of a reach on the rumor scale.
However, I suspect that this may have been a mistake by a graphic designer working on the Czech and Hungary web sites. I doubt they actually take photos of their hardware. The images they use are almost all renders. There have been render mistakes spotted on Apple's various web sites before. Just saying -- this could actually just be a rumor.
The fact that it is grey on white keys and not black keys is suspicious to me. They haven't used light colored keys with their backlight products since the Powerbook days, I don't think.
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Sorry - I'm obtuse. What is the difference between a backlit keyboard and a keyboard with a backlight? Thanks.
However, I suspect that this may have been a mistake by a graphic designer working on the Czech and Hungary web sites. I doubt they actually take photos of their hardware. The images they use are almost all renders. There have been render mistakes spotted on Apple's various web sites before. Just saying -- this could actually just be a rumor.
The fact that it is grey on white keys and not black keys is suspicious to me. They haven't used light colored keys with their backlight products since the Powerbook days, I don't think.
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Sorry - I'm obtuse. What is the difference between a backlit keyboard and a keyboard with a backlight? Thanks.
The regular ones are screen brightness, the ones that have appeared are keyboard brightness
While a backli(gh)t keyboard for most part is just "bling" in my office, I definitely would replace my Apple wireless keyboard with one, I use a Logitech wireless illuminated keyboard (K800, although the wired K740 was a tad better for typing imho, although nowhere close to the Apple wireless keyboard) and the light is neat, having the Apple keyboard light up like that would look pretty neat.
Black keys would be nice, they'd go much better with the thunderbolt display (and iMacs) and also match the current MacBook lineup. And eventually a space grey aluminum casing would be neat.... oh well.
Black keys would be nice, they'd go much better with the thunderbolt display (and iMacs) and also match the current MacBook lineup. And eventually a space grey aluminum casing would be neat.... oh well.
Ugh. Never. I'll take the Magic Mouse's limited gestures over the limited pointing precision of the Magic Trackpad any day of the week.
I'm pretty sure the power button is to turn off ur iWatch to save battery when you don't need it while you're at ur computer.