New iMac Keyboard Revealed?

[verniesgarden]

has any one else noticed that the rubber feet are too far in on the keyboard to actually serve any function? the way the board would sit on the desk, would mean the the rubber feet would be in the air.

plus with seeing mac design over the last few years there would be a white plastic that the aluminum would sit in that would pull the look together and make the keys less pronounced, can't say i would dislike the recessed USB ports as that would be nice for the mouse, but for anything else that a USB port on the keyboard would be useful for it would be more of a hassle than the back of a mac pro

and for the love of god if you have a handy dandy USB port on the keyboard make it USB2.0 this time... would be nice for the first shuffle

 

[phalewhale]

They could use flat, rechargeable batteries (like in the Nano). So you would just plug your keyboard into the USB port every once in awhile to recharge it. Really, wireless keyboards seem kinda silly to me. How often does one move their keyboard while using it?

I'm really getting sick of the white keyboards. Anyone will tell you that the black keyboards look great with the G5 towers. We have black Macbooks, how hard it is to bring back black keyboards.

Personally, my only reason for using a wireless keyboard is so that I don't have any wires kicking around on my desk.

 

[&RU]

I'm with beannyc, there is just too much meddling with the keyboard layout, and there is little chance that apple is going to remove the logo form the "Apple" key. That "Apple Developer" sticker is pretty suspicious when you give it a closer look.

There used to be power buttons on the old ADB keyboards, I believe it was removed when they launched the original G3 series as a cost cutting measure. It may not be possible to implement with USB keyboards, but I certainly miss it. Although, when working on my old macs it is a pain - I often inadvertently start the shutdown sequence when attempting to open the CD tray.

 

[dalvin200]

GREAT keyboard! If that's the real thing, I'm picking one up on day one. I absolutely love the MacBook keys; easier on the fingers and easy to wipe clean....

i am totally with you on this Cloudsurfer!

I really hope this type of KB is available regardless of is a new designed iMac is revealed circa 7th August (which I hope is not, as I'm away for the whole week and will struggle to keep up to date with any news!! lol)

 

[phalewhale]

has any one else noticed that the rubber feet are too far in on the keyboard to actually serve any function? the way the board would sit on the desk, would mean the the rubber feet would be in the air.

plus with seeing mac design over the last few years there would be a white plastic that the aluminum would sit in that would pull the look together and make the keys less pronounced, can't say i would dislike the recessed USB ports as that would be nice for the mouse, but for anything else that a USB port on the keyboard would be useful for it would be more of a hassle than the back of a mac pro

and for the love of god if you have a handy dandy USB port on the keyboard make it USB2.0 this time... would be nice for the first shuffle

Yeah, I noticed that. That is possibly one of the main reasons why I think this is a FAKE! Whilst the pictures are good, the placement of the rubber feet is something I think the creator has overlooked.

Couldn't agree more about the USB 2.0 ports too!

 

[farmboy]

Prototype, people...prototype

The keys are not functional, so to speak. Just a prototype here, proof of concept, move along now, nothing to see.

(But I do like cool engineering like this)

 

[Mac One]

I'm not to sure about it. Whats the point/advantage of having a super slim keyboard for a desktop computer. I would hope that this is fake and the new one focusses more on ergonomics than thinness.

 

[epicwelshman]

i am totally with you on this Cloudsurfer!

I really hope this type of KB is available regardless of is a new designed iMac is revealed circa 7th August (which I hope is not, as I'm away for the whole week and will struggle to keep up to date with any news!! lol)

Yeah, I'm away in rural New Hampshire that week... no web access, which will sure suck if anything new is released...

 

[vohdoun]

Hidden back quite a bit from the edge? When you take a look at the picture of the bottom of the keyboard, it's not actually that far in from the edge. So each time you connect a USB device you're going UNDER the keyboard? That means you'll most likely be picking the keyboard up each time you connect a device, unless you've got really skinny fingers! Have you got real skinny fingers?

My fingers are decent I'd say, not chubby anyway but where and how or if I needed to pick this keyboard up thats the least of my worries. You seem to be so obsessed in getting up or looking to see and make sure the right ends line up.

I'll tell you how you're going to know without having to pick the keyboard up or know if the connection is the right way up. The connector has the apple logo at the bottom. If you have it at the top you wont get the cable in, if the USB logo is at the top you'll get it in without having to look.

Still can't see how you surmise that the port is "too far away" from the edge based on this pic. An inch at most. Actually when you look real close, the "stand" where the USB port is, is not even in the middle. A minor point maybe.

I can't be bothered to explain, but if you can't work it out well... its irrelevant to me.

But, what do you think about the angle of the keyboard and the probability of all four rubber feet touching the desk at the same time? I don't see that happening from the pictures posted.

You aren't thinking logically.
Granted the front rubber feet MAY appear to not touch the desk but it doesn't mean its fake as the stand at the rear is too tall, but its not. You have been deceived by the illusion. Can't even believe I am doing this.

I can't believe you cannot work out the angles.

 

[tusker]

Are we talking about the same thing here? I'm talking about the USB hub/dock on the keyboard, not the USB keyboard cable itself. Remember, we're talking about a keyboard that isn't actually here yet. Whilst there may not be that many USB 2.0 keyboards around at the moment, the rumored apple keyboard may have a USB 2.0 hub/dock. A bit like this one.

Don't get me wrong...I'd love to see usb 2.0, it would definitly be more convenient, especially w/ flash drives etc. It's just that if the keyboard is real (which I believe it is), having recessed usb ports would imply that it isn't intended for much more than a mouse (eg. the wired mouse that comes with the wired keyboard.

 

[cleanup]

Click here. Take a good look at this picture.

Ok, if it's real then it's seriously flawed. Check out the rubber feet. Does anyone honestly think that this keyboard is gonna sit sturdy on your desk without the bottom part of the keyboard scraping the desk and/or moving about? The angle the keyboard would sit at simply doesn't permit all four feet to be touching the desk at once. FAKE!

Also, where's the usb port gone? Click here. You would expect to see just a little bit of it surely. If not, then the port actually sits UNDER then keyboard. Yeah right. FAKE!

And whilst on the subject of the USB port. Really, I would have expected to see the port at least slightly showing on this picture too at least if the first picture in this post is anything to go by. But wait I forgot, the port is UNDER the keyboard... Nah, it's a FAKE!

I think I have proven CATEGORICALLY that this keyboard is a FAKE!!!

All these "fake" yellers are driving me insane. How can you be so daft? Please look more carefully at the photos. If you took more than 30 seconds to react you would realize that there is no way that this is a Photoshop/digital job.

Just a few points:

1. You can see grains/imperfections/dirt all along the keys and keyboard in the close-up.
2. You can see the rubber key-press mechanism thingies underneath the keys in the close-up.
3. You can see a faint shadow of a guy holding a digital camera on the photo of the underside.
4. In the angled close-up photo, the photo goes out of focus top-left.
5. Who the hell takes the time to make something this perfect? The keys are all perfectly shaped, formed, and use the same font as those found on the MacBooks.
6. At the very least it's physically real. And then there's about a 95% chance that it is in fact from Apple, considering #5.

Sheesh.

 

[phalewhale]

More news on the FAKE!

OK, so I've been doing some very rudimentary calculations here... On the bottom of the keyboard the large white sticker states:

Rubber Feet Moon Gray 0.5 (0.7mm)

Now, I'm English so I'm a metric person. What does the "0.5" mean? Is this referring to inches? Whatever it refers to, my understanding is that it equates to 0.7mm. Am I right in making this assumption?

If so, 0.7mm is mega mega small - I reckon this has to be a typo and proof that it's a fake. It probably should read 0.7cm which equates to 7mm as opposed to 0.7mm. Are you American's still with me?

Anyway, just for good measure (get it?) I decided to look at the measurements of the rest of the underside. I reckon that if the rubber feet are actually 7mm across, then by looking at the picture of the keyboard, I'd surmise that the gap at the end of the left underside is about 21mm (0.8 inches), and the gap on the right underside is about 18mm (0.7 inches).

Definitely a FAKE!

 

[urbanskywalker]

I think some people like to call fake because it makes them seem more knowledgeable.

All these "fake" yellers are driving me insane. How can you be so daft? Please look more carefully at the photos. If you took more than 30 seconds to react you would realize that there is no way that this is a Photoshop/digital job.

Just a few points:

1. You can see grains/imperfections/dirt all along the keys and keyboard in the close-up.
2. You can see the rubber key-press mechanism thingies underneath the keys in the close-up.
3. You can see a faint shadow of a guy holding a digital camera on the photo of the underside.
4. In the angled close-up photo, the photo goes out of focus top-left.
5. Who the hell takes the time to make something this perfect? The keys are all perfectly shaped, formed, and use the same font as those found on the MacBooks.
6. At the very least it's physically real. And then there's about a 95% chance that it is in fact from Apple, considering #5.

Sheesh.

 

[cleanup]

OK, so I've been doing some very rudimentary calculations here... On the bottom of the keyboard the large white sticker states:

Rubber Feet Moon Gray 0.5 (0.7mm)

Now, I'm English so I'm a metric person. What does the "0.5" mean? Is this referring to inches? Whatever it refers to, my understanding is that it equates to 0.7mm. Am I right in making this assumption?

If so, 0.7mm is mega mega small - I reckon this has to be a typo and proof that it's a fake. It probably should read 0.7cm which equates to 7mm as opposed to 0.7mm. Are you American's still with me?

Anyway, just for good measure (get it?) I decided to look at the measurements of the rest of the underside. I reckon that if the rubber feet are actually 7mm across, then by looking at the picture of the keyboard, I'd surmise that the gap at the end of the left underside is about 21mm (0.8 inches), and the gap on the right underside is about 18mm (0.7 inches).

Definitely a FAKE!

I imagine 0.7 mm may be the thickness.

Typos don't mean a fake?

As for your underside "measurements," do you know how difficult it is to take a photo from above at a perfectly perpindicular angle? You can see the guy's shadow, holding his camera. He was probably off-angle a bit, revealing the so-called fake-revealing measurements.

Also, if this was a Photoshop job, don't you think the measurements would be absolutely perfect?

 

[vohdoun]

Definitely a FAKE!

Heh.

I'm not going to bother anymore.

 

[TheAnswer]

Is this referring to inches?

Not likely, if it was in English units (inches) it would say 0.5" not just 0.5. Maybe 0.5 is the height of the bump or some other characteristic? Hard to say. I seriously doubt the design team is using both English and metric measurements on the same piece.

Whatever it refers to, my understanding is that it equates to 0.7mm. Am I right in making this assumption?

If it were inches, 0.5 inches is around 12.7mm.

 

[4God]

Wow, a lot of fuss over a keyboard.

 

[vohdoun]

Wow, a lot of fuss over a keyboard.

Heh. Though imagine how great you'll be able to type with this thing on rubber feet! It's a new revolution!1

 

[verniesgarden]

Wow, a lot of fuss over a keyboard.

really shows how little we've had good rumors around here that don't revolve around the damn iphone

 

[phalewhale]

I imagine 0.7 mm may be the thickness.

Typos don't mean a fake?

As for your underside "measurements," do you know how difficult it is to take a photo from above at a perfectly perpindicular angle? You can see the guy's shadow, holding his camera. He was probably off-angle a bit, revealing the so-called fake-revealing measurements.

Also, if this was a Photoshop job, don't you think the measurements would be absolutely perfect?

Well if it does refer to the thickness of the feet, I think that wonderfully colourful picture by vohdoun could be a bit off scale. The feet wouldn't be anywhere near as prominent, thus reducing the angle to work with. The ones on the MacBook's are nowhere near as prominent as they were on the iBook

As for the camera being off angle, I don't think that could account for a discrepancy of a few mm either side of the keyboard - unless of course, it's meant to be that way. The rubber feet though are definately not in line. Not really what you'd expect from Apple. On a prototype though? Maybe.

I suppose we shall see soon enough. My eyes are done in now with scrutinizing these photos!

 

[mongoos150]

Also goes to show just how gaga us Macheads are over... everything Apple. What other company has fans who go this crazy over a keyboard mockup, making diagrams of the scale of the keyboard, trying to figure out if the rubber feet on a "potentially fake" future keyboard would properly sit on a flat surface (to determine whether a product image was fake or real)?! I love that we love Apple.

 

[cleanup]

I suppose we shall see soon enough. My eyes are done in now with scrutinizing these photos!

Thank heavens.

 

[phil83]

Can anyone say ugly?

I really think this keyboard is ugly. And come on guys how many times have we actually seen product before it has came out. Thus I really doubt that this is for real. At lest I hope not.

 

[gonnabuyamac]

really shows how little we've had good rumors around here that don't revolve around the damn iphone

i totally agree!!! it's about time there was a rumor that is interesting - even if it's just a keyboard.

i would buy this keyboard if they made it - it would match my mbp better than the current BT keyboard (especially if it came in all silver). but, then i'd have a barely used keyboard and my wife would be ticked that i keep spending all our money on apple products.

 

[mongoos150]

I really think this keyboard is ugly. And come on guys how many times have we actually seen product before it has came out. Thus I really doubt that this is for real. At lest I hope not.

Completely disagree. I think it's beautiful - silver on white, sleek and uncluttered. Very Ive-esque. Very Apple.