Why Bluetooth and USB not? Well, the Mac is a whole blessed with little USB ports, so you bypass this deficiency. Besides, who wants to be cluttered with equipment already many USB sticks and cables, especially the sticks are often designed in different sizes and often do not fit side by side? Bluetooth is simply a more elegant and aesthetic variant.
Thus, I ended up on the age-old Mac Bluetooth keyboard with numeric keypad and used it well until recently.
Then I discovered the Kanex Keyboard and ordered course directly.
Here are the pros and cons that affect me as Snow Leopard users:
Pros:
- Simple set-up. No software is required. The iMac recognizes the keyboard directly via Bluetooth. After entering the code on the keypad, it is directly connected.
- The design is very thin, the weight just right, that is, the keyboard does not move while typing and threatened not to fly away.
- The typing feel is perfect, similar to Apple Keyboard and it has not bothered me until now it (all 10 fingers)
- The Bluetooth connection is established immediately if one wakes up the keyboard from sleep by simply tapping a button.
- You can connect up to 3 devices with what I have not yet tried.
- The buttons on / off, search, volume control, and front, rear, etc. for iTunes function properly under Snow Leopard. Otherwise, other key bindings are not working.
Cons:
- Caps lock on / off is not recognized because no lighting
- The keyboard is made entirely of plastic
- The keyboard layout is rather geared towards OS Lion (I use still Snow Leopard)
- There is no "Eject" button to DVDs / CDs eject, probably because the new Macs do not contain DVD drive more. What I find a shame because the original Apple Wireless Keyboard includes another Eject button.
- There is no Dashboard button, but Mission Control, which of course does not work on Snow Leopard.
Conclusion:
For the price of 75, - EUR one naturally expects a housing made of aluminum, if you consider that the original Apple keyboard only 69, - EUR costs and is superior to that of the processing, quality and material to the multiples. However, since it is apparently walk and add, since it is no quality keyboards made of aluminum except for Apple, it is acceptable.
The keyboard for the most part fulfilled its purpose and I just hope that it also keeps long. Originally I just wanted an Apple Wireless Keyboard + Belkin Numeric Keypad (unfortunately only at Apple Store exclusive) buy, to solve the problem with the number block finally, but that would have me for example 129, - EUR total cost. The Kanex solution is clearly the better solution, if your keyboard is long-lasting.