2008 May | Declan Jewell's Blog

I mentioned a few posts ago my wired Apple keyboard had stopped working.. again, well today I got round to actually getting to the Apple store and getting it replaced.

I don’t really know what’s causing the keyboards to break, it’s totally random, first broken one some keys such as the V simply stuck on sometimes and trying to enter URL’s was a right pain, in the first time in history Google had a V in it.

The second broken keyboard the buttons didn’t stick but instead stopped working all together, it seemed to spread as it starting with some numbers from the number pad but slowly it started moving left and covering more and more of the keyboard until it came so many buttons were non functioning that I couldn’t use the keyboard.

When I visited the Apple store today the attendant asked what computer I was using the keyboard with, when told it was a Mac Mini that was less than a year old he suggested I brought that in too for a look as it could be frying the keyboards.

I had always been looking at the wireless model so I decided to go for it today and hopefully get rid of my problems as it has no number pad to break and doesn’t directly connect to the computer so cannot actually be fried with it unless the Mac has some special powers to fry stuff over Bluetooth.

Having been using for a day I can say it’s pretty nice design wise and is also very small compared to the normal sized keyboard, for example the navigation buttons have been removed with home and other buttons on it but the thing I will miss most from that cluster of keys is the delete button. This is really handy for deleting things when the cursor is before the text, now when this happens you have to move the cursor to after the text and delete it, also when using Windows under BootCamp the keyboard does work but there is no possible way to do CRTL+ALT+DELETE, unless anyone knows otherwise? There is also some typing issues due to the placement of the keys but I am not ready to give up on that yet as it’s one of those things that you will get used to, so overall pretty good and really smart looking keyboard but will take some getting used to, maybe less so if you own a MacBook as it’s the exact same keyboard on that.