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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: fkeidjn on Sat, 07 February 2009, 23:12:15
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click (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt3hXNHFmpU&feature=bz301)
He's raving about how great this keyboard is, when he hasn't even tried the Japanese stuff.
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Those things are an absolute travesty to actually type on. Truly the pinnacle of style over functionality.
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I can stand some of the thin Apple keyboards, but others feel horrible. They get dirty very easily too!
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I think they are crap. I used a wired Apple Aluminum Keyboard at work for a while and hated it. It makes me feel ugly just using it.
The keyboard on my MacBook, luckily feels not quite as bad as that, but close.
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"Why would somebody pay 85 bucks for this?"
He got that right.
"I can get around pretty fast with just my two fingers"
He is definitely the right guy for a keyboard "review"
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Dude, you watched the whole thing? I hit stop after "I think this is real aluminum guys."
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Yup it was hilarious, I couldn't stop.
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You can tell this guy sure loves overpriced consumer crap. :/
With 85 dollars, he could've bought two keyboards that actually feel good to type on.
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Carlos really seems to be into it, which is cool. I don't know if he is more enamored with the small size or the the chiclet sized keys. It looks like a cool keyboard to me though, but he kind of goes off of the rails when he says he types with 2 fingers. I stopped watching at that point.
Having never typed on an apple keyboard I have no idea what they are like.
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"It's real aluminium!" Yeah, the same luxurious material used for wrapping turkey roasts and containing soda-pop! I have never been able to like this keyboard any time i've tried it. OK, admittedly it's better than a lot of average scissor-switch laptop keyboards but it's still not something i'd pay that much for. A lot of consumers really do have their blinkers on when it comes to judging real quality.
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To be fair, the apple keyboard does look cool.Don't think I would buy one though, but its not like it is ugly looking or anything.
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Such a high schooler's move. (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=953)
Can't drop it huh? (http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=11207&postcount=14)
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What a ****ing dork. Only losers twitter.
I have this keyboard for a media pc. It's nice to pull over to the coffee table to use. I just peck a few keys here and there, I hardly use it as a keyboard. I think this is a handsome device, too bad it doesn't work too well for actual typing.
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What a ****ing dork. Only losers twitter.
Oh thanks. I'll have you know I have 22 followers on twitter :mad:
edit: proof (http://twitter.com/zacherymaloney)
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I have an idea for a FAR more entertaining video with this keyboard.
How about I take one of those wee little keyboards and absolutely crush it with repeated blows using...oh, say a model M.
Heck, just drop a model M on it and watch it disintegrate. It would do me good to see that.
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Coincidentally OSNews has posted an article (http://osnews.com/story/20944/On_Keyboards_and_Particularly_the_Apple_Aluminum_Keyboard) about this keyboard.
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...I used a wired Apple Aluminum Keyboard at work for a while and hated it...
The keyboard on my MacBook, luckily feels not quite as bad as that, but close.
I like my MacBook's keyboard. But, the wired Aluminium keyboard just does not feel the same. The look is almost the same, but that's about it.
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There are worse desktop keyboards than the Apple aluminium keyboards, and there are a LOT of much worse laptop keyboards than these new Sony style keys that Apple borrowed. :)
The bluetooth keyboard is nice, if they made a bluetooth illuminated one with a big glass trackpad on the right like the new macbooks, I would buy one in an instant, even if it cost like 150$. :)
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There are worse desktop keyboards than the Apple aluminium keyboards, and there are a LOT of much worse laptop keyboards than these new Sony style keys that Apple borrowed. :)
I'm trying to defend Apple, but I'm pretty sure it is the other way around: Sony copied Apple's keys design.
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No, it's not, Sony had laptops with chicklet style keys years before Apple.
And I'm not sure that they're the first to have such a thing, it's not spaceship engineering ... someone must have thought about it before, it's such a natural idea.
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No, it's not, Sony had laptops with chicklet style keys years before Apple.
And I'm not sure that they're the first to have such a thing, it's not spaceship engineering ... someone must have thought about it before, it's such a natural idea.
I did not know that :) I never really looked at Sony laptops for quite a while. So, I assumed that Sony copied the MacBook keyboard style.
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chiclet keyboards have been around for years, long before there were even such things as laptops.
there's no technical reason why a full-travel chiclet keyboard with mechanical keyswitches couldn't be made. it just may not look as cute.
what i love about apple is what they can get away with. they could sell **** on a stick and people would somehow be convinced that it tastes better than a non-apple one.
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These are not true chiclet keyboards though.
(Quoting from Wikipedia's chiclet keyboard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard) entry, last paragraph).
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what i love about apple is what they can get away with. they could sell **** on a stick and people would somehow be convinced that it tastes better than a non-apple one.
It's so true.
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ugh that looks horrible. And how can you type on it without it sliding all over the place since it weighs barely anything.
My wrists hurt just watching him type (i have a once broken left wrist and once broken right hand, so i can hurt after i type for awhile)
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Either that keyboard (the Apple Aluminum Wireless) is small or homeboy has some massive hands.
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It's identical in size to the MacBook keyboard.
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ugh that looks horrible. And how can you type on it without it sliding all over the place since it weighs barely anything.
That is a problem with the wired version, the moving around on the desk thing. It was all over the place.
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I have the wired version, it weighs a LOT for it's size and has rubber feet.
It has a metal plate in it ... the weight is like triple of what I expected when I first looked at it.
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It's so true.
+1. I'm a Mac user myself, but there are some things that Apple does that I don't like. However, I'm surprized to find how some die hard fans can rationalize Apple's flaws.
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I own this keyboard solely because it is one stylish looking keyboard. There is a tiny click when you mash the keys. It is not that bad of a keyboard all in all. There are much better keyboarding experiences out there though.
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I believe the IBM PCjr had chicklet keys back in, what, the mid 80s?
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As lowpoly said, they are not true chiclet. Keycaps can be removed:
http://www.curiouschap.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/apple-keyboard-opened.jpg