Come to think of it, this has never been a problem to me with my existing magic keyboard, but I was missing backlighting for my iPad's Smart Keyboard. But that's just me.
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Magic Keyboard With Touch ID Costs $50 Extra for Base Model M1 iMac
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It’s a real shame that these won’t work on Intel Macs and an even greater shame that Apple isn’t letting you buy them separately even if you’ve got an M1 Mac. There are lots of M1 mini owners out there and plenty of people who use their MacBooks docked and in clamshell mode.
By Apple delaying the pre-orders it allows all the little "gotchas" to sink in.
Dandelion and lemon is bright yellow, like a banana, not pastel like the chin and accessories on the yellow iMac.
Creamsicle and melon, in my opinion, are more orange and closer in color to the orange iMac which I quite like actually.
I would agree, Black has been the Pro color for a while. So if they introduce a Mac mini Pro a black keyboard would be nice against a Mini Tower Mac Pro unit. If they could have a Mac mini pro unit starting around $3000 compared against the $6000 Mac Pro starting price, I think they would have a winner. With the Pandemic work from home has turned around the popularity of desktop computers, more people working and schooling from home. The iMac looks nice and all for a general home computer, but someone who would like a little more power and expandability a mini tower would fit right in.
The entry level iMac is a terrible deal.... the nickel and diming for touch ID and ethernet adapter gets you close dollar-wise to the next model that included them, but you are still short 2 ports and 1 core.
with how big of a deal security is these days, there is no excuse for leaving touch ID out. They can't be saving more than $1 or $2 on the component side with how mass produced these have been by Apple over the last decade...
with how big of a deal security is these days, there is no excuse for leaving touch ID out. They can't be saving more than $1 or $2 on the component side with how mass produced these have been by Apple over the last decade...
How much longer does it reallyyy take to quickly do “cmnd+ctrl+Q”?
Or even better yet, set up a “hot corner” in settings to when you move your mouse to the extreme upper right corner for instance, it activates the screen saver. ZERO key presses!
I have it as one of the buttons on my Touch Bar on my MacBook Pro...
Is there not a way to assign actions to the different function keys on the non-touchbar Macs?
That's basically what Apple does. The more popular small keyboard is included with all iMacs. If you pay the upgrade price for the extended keyboard, you'll get that one instead. In the past, they've done the same thing with the mouse/trackpad.
Huh, i never bothered to learn that one....How much longer does it reallyyy take to quickly do “cmnd+ctrl+Q”?
Or even better yet, set up a “hot corner” in settings to when you move your mouse to the extreme upper right corner for instance, it activates the screen saver. ZERO key presses!
That actually is a terrible shortcut. A single modifier key different from both Quit application and from Logout. Slip on your keyboard and you get a completely different and possibly irreversible result
Not everyone can stare at the screen while typing. It would be nice to have in a keyboard that whenever sold separately will probably cost over 100 bucks, and if you don't need it you can always turn off the backlighting completely.
It makes the upgrade from the base model to the midrange model feel less expensive and therefore more appealing. It's part of the carrot and stick approach that Apple takes with their pricing, psycologically, so that the ASP is the $1,499 model.
I'm a devout touch typists too but there are times when the backlight is really handy, especially when it comes to the number keys up top during startup in a dark area. Logging in can be a pain without backlight.
Agreed. It's smart marketing on Apple's part but thankfully it's helpful to the consumer who would otherwise do an impact buy reckless abandon.
And on some levels good riddance! Don't forget about his 2016-2019 butterfly keyboard designs. I'm glad he's gone. Those were terrible and embarrassed Apple as a company.