Review on 💻 Aluminum Full Size USB Wired Keyboard: Compatible with iMac, MacBook Pro/Air, and Windows PC - Numeric Keypad, Mac Keyboards, and More! by Paul Beach

This keyboard is very much aimed at Apple customers and is therefore visually reminiscent of Apple keyboards. but that's where the comparison ends. The Apple keyboard has one or two non-standard key layouts that this keyboard doesn't try to fully replicate. Oh, they swapped the option and command keys correctly, as that's the most well-known difference between Apple's layout and other layouts, but they missed a few other things, like adding an equals key to the numeric keypad. and adding additional function keys above the numeric keypad; This keyboard instead uses a layout based almost entirely on standard Windows keyboard layouts, which don't have those extra keys. This is actually somewhat ironic due to another shortcoming of this keyboard: normally on any Mac computer, you can bring up the Apple Bootcamp operating system selection screen during reboot to boot into Windows simply by pressing the Option key on any Apple keyboard hold or alternatively. the Alt key on any standard keyboard - or rather, any standard keyboard. other keyboard than this one. For unknown reasons, this keyboard does not send the appropriate signal to the computer when you hold down the Option key. I've tried several other keys and even several key combinations to find a way to bring up this menu, but to no avail. (Of course, you can still restart Windows from the Startup Disk preference pane in System Preferences, but that hardly matters, does it?) They've also added an extra second "Fn" key, and for, to make the space instead, the entire right column of keys in the main keyboard zone is wider than necessary, resulting in crowding between different keyboard zones; It's clear that the designers didn't realize the importance of these gaps between zones. (Although these gaps may seem minor, they can serve as a tactile reminder of where exactly your hand is when touch typing.) The keys are also a bit louder and "clicky" than an Apple keyboard and the built-in USB hub with two Connections Apple has built wired keyboards into its (now discontinued) keyboards for years, but this keyboard lacks it. So better than no keyboard at all, but by no means a direct replacement for an Apple keyboard, not even the icing on the cake among cheap copies. If you want an Apple keyboard, you should probably just afford Apple's current wireless model, or maybe buy one of the aftermarket wired models. They aren't cheap but as they say you get what you pay for. If you are financially limited. well, you can be happy with that. But you'll probably be almost as happy with the cheaper standard Windows keyboards, which still work great on any Mac. Also, at least most of them understand spaces correctly.