They look great, and it’s a delightful detail in a place you’ll only look at once or twice. Under some lighting conditions, it looks like the key caps are a slightly different shade than the case, but it’s hard to tell if it’s just reflecting the beige walls in my office. It’s a little heavy, so you know it’s expensive. It looks really cool and feels nice in the hand. The keyboard case is made from sleek plastic that is perfectly smooth like a white plastic iMac or iPod. The three USB ports provide convenient connectivity. Look and feel The clear acrylic feet can be adjusted to any angle. Subsequent designs used rubbery membranes, which offer shallow travel and a rather unpleasant, mushy feel. I described the typing experience in my series of Mac keyboard reviews as “simply superb.” It was replaced by the mushy and cheap AppleDesign Keyboard, and Apple has never made another mechanical keyboard since. The Alps switches it used, rare in the keyboard world, are no longer manufactured. This beige monster was sold from 1987 to 1994. Other keyboard nuts are devoted to the buckling spring keyboard of the IBM Model M and its modern replicas, which offer an outstanding typing experience.īut those who were Mac guys in the 1990s - all twelve of us - know the Apple Extended Keyboard II to be the best of the best. Your standard-issue PC-gaming keyboard probably uses mechanical switches built by German manufacturer Cherry or a similar knock-off. Among keyboard enthusiasts, there are several camps that are devout to different legendary keyboards. Keyboard enthusiasts are a small but vocal niche of computer and gaming enthusiasts.

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