Author Topic: New Mac Keyboard (Read 2394 times)

Cunning Plan · « **on:** November 06, 2007, 09:23:34 am »

How awesome are these?

I was in PC world last night and saw one for real. Its a very niAceee bit of engineering.. They are uber small and thin with a nice key touch.. This is coming from someone who isnt THAT keen on fruit machines

I might get one for my PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.apple.com/keyboard/

Roadkill · « **Reply #1 on:** November 06, 2007, 09:49:24 am »

Meh.

A keyboard's a keyboard.

HardRockCamaro · « **Reply #2 on:** November 06, 2007, 10:29:48 am »

Which version were you looking at the USB one or the smaller bluetooth one?

A lot of people seem to like smaller bluetooth one but it doesn't have a numeric keypad which would bother me.

What I like is that there are no gaps for crumbs etc so keeping it looking clean and new will be easier than my white.clear Apple Pro keyboard which looks like you might need some sort of vaccination to use...

Its a very niAceee bit of engineering..

Of course it is, Apple has all the best stuff (my end user licence agreement for Leopard says I have to say stuff like that on forums).

Cunning Plan · « **Reply #3 on:** November 06, 2007, 10:30:40 am »

Quoting: Roadkill

A keyboard's a keyboard.

Yah, but its just something cool, that looks nice.. Even when its not being used kind of like a flat screen TV, you dont REALLY need one, but it takes up less space and is more modern..

55starchief · « **Reply #4 on:** November 06, 2007, 10:30:59 am »

Quoting: HardRockCamaro

What I like is that there are no gaps for crumbs etc so keeping it looking clean and new will be easier than my white.clear Apple Pro keyboard which looks like you might need some sort of vaccination to use...

i like the clear one, all the crumbs add to the asthetics

55starchief · « **Reply #5 on:** November 06, 2007, 10:32:16 am »

Its ok you PC people will get a poor imatation soon enough from microshite just like vista is a wanna be of leopard

Cunning Plan · « **Reply #6 on:** November 06, 2007, 10:32:55 am »

Quoting: HardRockCamaro

Which version were you looking at the USB one or the smaller bluetooth one?

I saw both, but i think not having the number pad would bother me too, so I would go for the wired one..

Quoting: HardRockCamaro

Of course it is, Apple has all the best stuff (my end user licence agreement for Leopard says I have to say stuff like that on forums).

art b · « **Reply #7 on:** November 06, 2007, 11:12:09 am »

Quoting: 55starchief

Its ok you PC people will get a poor imatation soon enough from microshite just like vista is a wanna be of leopard

as long as its cheap enough......

55starchief · « **Reply #8 on:** November 06, 2007, 11:14:36 am »

Quoting: art b

as long as its cheap enough......

ah and there it is, people dont care about quality anymore just how cheap they can get it. No wonder this country is loosing ground to china.

Well when the quality is all but gone i hope the masses will be proud of what they have achieved

Cunning Plan · « **Reply #9 on:** November 06, 2007, 11:17:20 am »

WOOO CHEEP CHEEP!!

Kenny · « **Reply #10 on:** November 06, 2007, 12:27:32 pm »

Quoting: 55starchief

Its ok you PC people will get a poor imatation soon enough from microshite just like vista is a wanna be of leopard

As always PC's have had tine keyboards like that for a long time before apple 'thought' of it...

Though not as pretty as the apple one i guess. Looks over function as usual

55starchief · « **Reply #11 on:** November 06, 2007, 12:30:37 pm »

Quoting: Kenny

As always PC's have had tine keyboards like that for a long time before apple 'thought' of it...

Ah yes cause thats made of aluminium know one has said they reinvented the keyboard just made an ubber cool looking opne

HardRockCamaro · « **Reply #12 on:** November 06, 2007, 12:31:58 pm »

That looks so elegent and well engineered.

I don't understand why people pay more for Apple stuff...

Kenny · « **Reply #13 on:** November 06, 2007, 12:36:04 pm »

Coz they think if its pretty it will work....

that said it is a nice looking keyboard, in fact most of the new apple suff is ok to look at, tis a shame about the reliability, cost, and compatibility issues

Kenny · « **Reply #14 on:** November 06, 2007, 12:37:36 pm »

sorry.. sorry.... i just love winding up apple people. dont know why but they always get defensive

55starchief · « **Reply #15 on:** November 06, 2007, 12:44:14 pm »

Quoting: Kenny

Coz they think if its pretty it will work....

that said it is a nice looking keyboard, in fact most of the new apple suff is ok to look at, tis a shame about the reliability, cost, and compatibility issues

Tired of saying this so here is Dr Cox

Kenny · « **Reply #16 on:** November 06, 2007, 12:53:30 pm »

cant watch Dr cox at work bloody websense

Just notice on the news that Leopard has a major security flaw. I like the F-secure guys quote that MAC are becoming less and less secure, but it doesn't matter because nobody bothers writing viruses or worms for them.
with the exception of that trojan currently targeting mac via youtube.

the gist of the story is that the leopard upgrade disables your firewall after its installed. i believe you can turn it back on easily enough though, so probably not a big deal.

Cunning Plan · « **Reply #17 on:** November 06, 2007, 02:19:03 pm »

Quoting: Kenny

that said it is a nice looking keyboard, in fact most of the new apple suff is ok to look at, tis a shame about the reliability, cost, and compatibility issues

I agree with ya. My girlfriends IMac is great to look at and has some nice little features like an inbuilt webcam and a remote for controling the media player.... But ive just bought a 22" Samsung WS monitor for my comptuer and will upgrade the GPU again pretty soon. I just cant see a fruit machine user doing that unless they spend a fortune and go for one of the towers - G5 irrc....

I like the Mac OS, I like SOME features in their machines.. If they got their head out of their own ass and bought the price down, and made it easier to upgrade AND worked hard to get compatablilty with things like games working, then I would consider one more seriously

Roadkill · « **Reply #18 on:** November 06, 2007, 02:23:35 pm »

Quoting: Kenny

Just notice on the news that Leopard has a major security flaw

But it just works . . . . ?!

55starchief · « **Reply #19 on:** November 06, 2007, 02:26:52 pm »

Quoting: Roadkill

But it just works . . . . ?!

Its the internal firewall software apparently. I dont even have that switched on as my router has its own firewall and software ones piss me the hell off constantly asking if this or that can have access

55starchief · « **Reply #20 on:** November 06, 2007, 02:30:22 pm »

Quoting: Cunning Plan

fruit machine user doing that unless they spend a fortune and go for one of the towers

twin Dual quad 3.0ghz G5 machine in the refurb store for £1300 the other week and that was with twin 250gb drives, nvidia graphics etc which i dont think is to bad

Kenny · « **Reply #21 on:** November 06, 2007, 03:24:39 pm »

Quoting: 55starchief

twin Dual quad 3.0ghz G5 machine in the refurb store for £1300 the other week and that was with twin 250gb drives, nvidia graphics etc which i dont think is to bad

I've just upgraded my PC (new MB, CPU, RAM, GPU, PSU) basicaly a whole new PC minus the case and monitor.

4Ghz Duel core processor
4GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 320 (8800 is the best GPU out I believe)
and high quality ASUS Motherboard and PSU.

'how much' i hear you ask

£500
£390 if you take off the cash i got for my old stuff on ebay.

now thats value for money

Cunning Plan · « **Reply #22 on:** November 06, 2007, 03:45:57 pm »

Quoting: Kenny

£500
£390 if you take off the cash i got for my old stuff on ebay.

now thats value for money

Nice.. You running XP or Vista? I read XP only supports 2.5gb ram

Where did you buy from mostly?

Quoting: Kenny

Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 320 (8800 is the best GPU out I believe)

Yarr the 8800 is best current generation card.. running DX10 games stresses it out a little though, but there isnt anything above the 8800 really.. Next year we should see some better graphics cards for DX10 stuff..

Jamieg285 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 06, 2007, 04:17:07 pm »

Quoting: Cunning Plan

I read XP only supports 2.5gb ram

Really? I was thinking of increasing my RAM to 4GB, but may not now.

Kenny · « **Reply #24 on:** November 06, 2007, 04:20:51 pm »

Quoting: Cunning Plan

Nice.. You running XP or Vista? I read XP only supports 2.5gb ram

I'm running XP. I wanted Vista, but very few games will run on it so sent it back. XP supports 4GB but the amount you actualy get use off might be less as XP like to allocate some memory to other devices. I get just over 3.5GB out of the 4 so not to bad.

Quoting: Cunning Plan

Where did you buy from mostly?

Bits from all over:
CPU and GPU from dabs.com
PSU and Motherboard from ebuyer
RAM from Play.com

and with free delivery (except dabs).

huh, the GPU has gone up by £5 since i got it... nice. i love it when that happens

oh yea.....