WARNING wireless keyboard no numberpad

[GoCubsGo]

Did you ignore the tremendous amount of photos available of the wireless keyboard. This is no surprise.

Did you read the OP where he said "foolishly"? And while ordering a MP and choosing the wireless keyboard upgrade it doesn't show you a photo afaik. Sure, it may have been that he browsed the store and saw the keyboard, but maybe he didn't realize the wireless upgrade would in fact be a downgrade for his purposes.

 

[Jebaloo]

I got the Wireless Keyboard... and this:

http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=14714

Solution! OK, it took me a long long time to search out a keypad with high speed USB ports that wasn't very very ugly (and you may argue that this one leaves a lot to be desired), but I figure with a wireless keyboard you can't have USB ports on it, and the design of it is beautiful (I wouldn't change it)...

I think getting a separate non-wireless keypad with USB ports would be a pretty good solution for most people. When you're not using it you can tuck it away under the screen and that saves you a few precious cm2 of your deskspace.

 

[kps]

I use it way too much for work and personal use and the quick "10-key by touch" functionality is more important

I can't see doing anything by touch on the current Apple keyboards. I assume that Steve "Form Over Function" Jobs has a secretary to do mundane things like typing for him. Who knew he had a secret infatuation with the IBM PCjr?

Apple used to make a well-designed ergonomic keyboard. Nobody (or not enough people) bought it. Such is life.

The Apple Adjustable Keyboard was extremely expensive and had a reputation for being unreliable. I didn't buy one at the time because it didn't have a proper Escape key (vi rules OK). But, unlike the MS faux-ergonomic and its clones, at least it had real keyswitches, and the '6' on the correct side.

... Apple M3501 keyboard (the ones that shipped with the Mac IIs). They were, I think, $100 twenty years ago... indisputably the best keyboard Apple has ever made

Yes, both the original Extended (M0115) and Extended II (M3501) are great. The only downside is the latching Caps Lock, which means remapping it to Control requires surgery.

It's all been downhill since then.

Edit: http://matias.ca/tactilepro2/ These guys apparently sell what they consider a resurrection of the best keyboard Apple ever made. Actually, that's their advertisement: "'The best keybaord Apple ever made' rises again."

If I still used a conventional keyboard, and my stock of Extendeds ever ran out, I'd get one of those.