You may have seen this post where I talk about the yuckiness that was my old keyboard and my thoughts on buying a new apple wireless keyboard. I went ahead and decided to buy one as I just couldn’t stand looking at the old one any longer. I searched eBay for a few days and finally found what looked like a good deal. Someone had purchased the keyboard but didn’t realize it wouldn’t work with his mac. It was a race to the finish, but I won the auction and only had to pay $60 (including shipping) for a brand new apple wireless keyboard.  I love eBay…

The keyboard arrived a few days later. I sat it in front of my computer and turned it on. Then I went to my bluetooth settings and told my MacBook Pro to add a new keyboard device. It found the keyboard and then prompted me to enter a sequence of numbers on the keyboard and press return. I then received a success message, and I was done. It’s just that easy.

I’ve been using the new apple wireless keyboard for about 5 days now, and I’m really pleased so far. The keys are responsive, the footprint is TINY compared to a full size keyboard and takes up less room on my desk. Some people might not like the small size.  If you’re accustomed to using a full-size keyboard for 100% of your work then you might fat-finger a few keys from time to time.  If, like me, you use a laptop keyboard during 50% of your day, then you won’t find any issues at all.  The apple wireless keyboard powers down when I haven’t used it for a long time in order to conserve battery power.  It also has a couple of handy keys at the top that give me instant access to my widgets and all my application windows.

So far so good.  I think this keyboard is going to to well for me for a long time to come.  And since they’re no casing around it, I can simply wipe it off when something gets on it.  It’s the small things in life folks – literally and figuratively.

My Old Apple Keyboard

My New Apple Wireless Keyboard