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New iMac Keyboard Revealed?
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I kinda like it. I'm tired of the current keyboard showing all the white spots from where I type and dust hasn't set in, not to mention it likes to collect and retain dust and other particles floating around in the areas between the letters, arrow keys and number pad. The clear wall makes things even worse so you can see along it all the crud that manages to fall in (and I don't eat at my keyboard...so what that is and where it came from are beyone me).
Yech.
Yech.
Do you know why Eject is there? Because it is macbook keyboard + some other similar-looking numpad.
I believe Apple is taking the system icons for these functions and placing them on the keyboard. It's not entirely obvious to a user that hitting F12 will bring up Dashboard. However, if the same icon for Dashboard is used throughout the OS as well as the keyboard, then its recognizable and easier to access. I was only trying to point out where in the OS these icons can be found currently.
The open/closed Apple keys were used before the dawn of Macintosh, as far as I know. However, currently the key is referenced to as the Command-key and its symbol, the cloverleaf, is found in all menus to initiate shortcuts. It's never referenced to as the Apple key by the computer but usually just in conversation between users. Apple is taking the necessary steps to reduce the confusion (referencing the key in two separate ways) and replacing the Apple logo with the word Command.
That was a good little update. I think this further protects the user from this mistake, but also places the key in the same spot as on the laptop keyboards and thus further consistency between hardware.
I agree this is not a production model, but I doubt few if any changes will be made before it becomes a finished product. It's an Apple design and prototype, not a fake.
The key changed it's name to the command key in 1984 when the Macintosh came out. (Before then it was open apple or closed apple). If you look at help docs or apple instruction manuals apple always refers to its super-key to the command key.
My only guess as to why change it is because there are two names for one key. They had to either remove the
or remove the command clover. They chose to keep it the command key and remove the apple.It would look totally dumb to have a brushed metal iMac and a brushed metal keyboard with white keys. Very ugly!
Not to mention the white USB cord, it would probably be grey like the power cord for the MBP.
Not to mention the white USB cord, it would probably be grey like the power cord for the MBP.
I knew I had seen one of those "Apple Development Team" labels before. Check this out: Desktop Development Team
Its a bit old but looks to be the same sort of label. There are a few other pictures like that floating around the net but I'm too lazy to find the others right now.
I'm still betting this is a real keyboard (or maybe hoping, I love my MacBook's keyboard!)
Its a bit old but looks to be the same sort of label. There are a few other pictures like that floating around the net but I'm too lazy to find the others right now.
I'm still betting this is a real keyboard (or maybe hoping, I love my MacBook's keyboard!)
This SEEMS like it could be true, but the way some of those keys look and are positioned...it also looks like it could be a custom job somebody made using MacBook keys.
You'd think Apple would also slim down & lengthen the USB cord if this is true though. Attached to that super slim keyboard it looks awfully out of place and bulky.
You'd think Apple would also slim down & lengthen the USB cord if this is true though. Attached to that super slim keyboard it looks awfully out of place and bulky.
The current Apple keyboard has 2 delete keys : One below the help key and one next to the += key :
I like that idea... that makes sense and that is where keyboard layout makes sense.... so why put it on the other side of the keyboard? Why not just leave it on the F12 or whatever key?
This is a fact. I don't know why Apple put the Apple logo there, maybe to have it somewhere on the keyboard or something, but it's there so why change it. This is one point that I don't care too much about. I am really just concerned with the main keys that were fine where they were such as the volume and eject keys. And the addition of new useless keys like the function button. But I have to say that this is just a fake... Having 8 useless buttons and all of the other ones bunched up on the other side makes no sense.
That actual consistency is leaving it in the upper right of the keyboard. Not everyone is a laptop junkie, some people have to use the number pad a lot and recognize it as a part of the keyboard. The eject button is always in the upper right hand corner of all Apple keyboards.
This is in no way an Apple design or prototype. It will never see the light of day. It is by far the biggest step backward I have seen Apple make. This is the best pulled off fake since the bad mockups of full screen iPods. There will be a lot of changes when the new keyboard is debuted and it won't look anything like this, or the layout won't be this terrible.
Actually its quite ergonomic. The key to many of the repetitive strain injuries (Carpal Tunnel) involves improper wrist position (flexed or extended). If the keyboard is somewhat thinner then your wrist will be in a more neutral position. Hopefully it won't take much getting used to though.
While both statement's are correct they are missing the point. The advantage of ergo/ smiling keyboards is that you don't have your wrists cocked out to the side while typing. There are a million pads you can buy to keep your hands from sloping up at the wrist ,but only a curved keyboard will keep them from turning out. The broader you shoulders are the more of a problem this is. Speaking as a big guy who's on a computer all day, that keyboard looks like a recipe for pain.
... on other notes I believe Apple could develop a keyboard that is wireless (bluetooth) AND also able to connect via USB.
Same with the new mouse
That's one of the best ideas I've heard in a while
..kinda like it would be totally dumb to have a brushed metal Mac Pro and have a clear keyboard housing with white keys. Apple would never do that!
I'll remember this.
So if I am right you will be on my "I told you that the keyboard layout sucked" thread right?
Or the "I told you it was fake" one?
The current Apple keyboard has 2 delete keys : One below the help key and one next to the += key :
Probably using the wrong terms, but one is delete "backwards" and one is delete "forwards"
Since I no longer use the Developer Mac that we used to transition from PPC to Intel I can tell you that Development label is almost an exact duplicate of what was on the hardware we got with the Dev Kit.
oscuh said:
They are still labeled "delete"