The keys are flat much like those found on laptop computers and take a little getting used to if you have been using a normal ‘fat’ keyboard for many years. The ultra thin design is very aesthetically pleasing. Battery life was actually very good however not as good as a wired keyboard that never requires the batteries to be changed. A side benefit is I would not have to keep buying batteries for the keyboard. Using a keyboard for design work or programming you tend to become accustomed to the extra keys. The wireless keyboard is well designed if you want to use it sat in front of your TV and want something easier to handle when sat on your lap. My reasons being that one my keyboard spends most of its time sat in front of my monitor and secondly I would miss the numeric keypad and direction keys missing from the new compact wireless keyboard. When it became necessary to replace my white Apple wireless keyboard I decided to go back to a wired keyboard. The keyboard is available as a wired full size keyboard or a compact wireless keyboard. There are subtle differences between the British and American editions you may not have ever considered like where is the hash key? I have updated the article to included some images so you can see the difference in the key layouts.Īpple has updated its range of keyboards to match the aluminium finish of its latest range of computers. This article is a re-post of an old article I wrote about the Apple Ultra thin British edition keyboard from January 2008. Differences between British and US Apple Keyboards
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