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Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:02 am
by James Steele
Okay... so upgraded to a MacPro4,1 and now that I have bluetooth, I was looking online at the Mac bluetooth keyboards and again have to ask why they couldn't have made a bluetooth keyboard WITH the numeric keypad? How hard would it be to offer two models?
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:08 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
Hey Mr. Steele, I HIGHLY recommend the Logitech Solar keyboard. I just love it. The feel is great, it's reliable and it recharges via room light. I installed a row of LEDs over the keyboard and it keeps it at 100%. It does take up a USB port for the receiver but no more batteries!
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/w ... d-k750-mac
Comes in 5 colors but i much prefer the black...
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:09 am
by James Steele
Yep... funny I had just come back to this topic to post a link to the same thing!
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:18 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
It's a very sturdy unit. I type like a drummer (that's what I started out as and still think of myself as...) so I destroy cheap keyboards in weeks. This one is still responsive and the letters haven't faded.
The only caveat would be that the function keys are mapped differently and you might have to hit the function key to get the actual function # printed on the key. Not a big deal since they added a function key next to the home key. But I've come to like that as I have a few extra keys and can control iTunes and other media players at the press of a key.
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:36 am
by Michael Canavan
James Steele wrote:Okay... so upgraded to a MacPro4,1 and now that I have bluetooth, I was looking online at the Mac bluetooth keyboards and again have to ask why they couldn't have made a bluetooth keyboard WITH the numeric keypad? How hard would it be to offer two models?
The first Bluetooth model that I'm typing on has the numeric keypad. Craigslist is your friend.
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:41 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
I have that one as well but find the flatter design of the keys on the Logitech board more forgiving and easier on the fingertips.
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:44 am
by Michael Canavan
I'm more of a brute that way. callouses on me fingers etc.
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:21 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
You mean you got blisters on ya fingers?
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:15 am
by James Steele
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I have that one as well but find the flatter design of the keys on the Logitech board more forgiving and easier on the fingertips.
What Michael said. Couldn't go back to those older style keyboards.
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:11 am
by bayswater
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:12 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
Whereas for $20 more you can get it all in a high quality solar powered wireless kbd.
I freakin' HATE cords as much as JS hates wall wartsWell, almost as much.
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:20 am
by bayswater
I like the separate numeric keypad (which IS wireless BTW), because I can put it either side of the main keyboard.
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:59 am
by MIDI Life Crisis
I hear ya. Fact is I have a second wired Apple (flat) keyboard in my piano controller for transport during recording and the off times I need to boot with a key held down.
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 5:38 am
by Guitar Gaz
I bought the usb keyboard with the numbers keypad for that very reason - why they could not do a bluetooth keyboard with numbers is beyond me - do we not still need numbers when we are wireless?
Re: Apple Wireless keyboard needs numeric pad
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 12:35 pm
by b.g.
Michael Canavan wrote:James Steele wrote:Okay... so upgraded to a MacPro4,1 and now that I have bluetooth, I was looking online at the Mac bluetooth keyboards and again have to ask why they couldn't have made a bluetooth keyboard WITH the numeric keypad? How hard would it be to offer two models?
The first Bluetooth model that I'm typing on has the numeric keypad. Craigslist is your friend.
I have that Apple first gen Bluetooth too. It works great for controlling DP. Note, it does not work with iOS devices.