Less? Slimmer? It's better? The new Apple Keyboard Part 1

Honestly, I have never been a fan of "apple" periphery. One-touch "Soap" after years of communicating with a large line of Logitech so do make me a smile, but with the two latest models of Apple I naobschalsya plenty of keyboards. The first of these, plastic, pleasantly pleased with a nice design and the presence of 2 additional USB ports for which this miracle, frankly, and purchased. Now, to be replaced on brand new aluminum Apple Keyboard is removed on a shelf where, apparently, and the remaining time will stay :)

keyboard design - an area where Apple's approach is felt to a great extent. On the one hand convenient form, good workmanship (although feels worse than adored me BTC 6301) And the required minimum set of multimedia keys plus a set of F-keys right up to F16. On the other - to the best of nasty design, as if specially designed to collect dust, crumbs and other muck. You can, of course, plenty to complain about the cleanliness of the apartment and anything else, but it's 100% design flaw: a lack of technical, which appeared due to the fact that someone (

wink, wink) Too much carried away by appearance. The need for regular cleaning of this article, by the way, got me incredibly ...

Differences between the new aluminum keyboard visible to the naked eye even before the moment you connect it to your Mac. previous generation keyboard got me polietilenovom bag with the logo of one of the well-known companies that sell apple appliances. Neither the manual nor anything else was not in the package (for nefig). Already mentioned the good word The BTC, for example, (exactly like its predecessor Chicony) distributed in a cardboard box with a decent graphic arts industry... The new Apple Keyboard also in this respect, produces a more favorable impression of almost twice larger than that of its predecessor, the price, Apple has not stinted on the large cardboard box with a manual, extension and, of course, the keyboard itself. Having clearly noutbuchnogo basis, it is clearly thinner than its predecessor, although it is located on the surface at a slight incline, created by a small thickening serving USB hub.

Appearance

The keyboard is extremely similar to their mobile counterparts. The size and key travel, location... Members makbukov certainly appreciate the similarity. And looks the aluminum surface, which must be confessed, just awesome.

To be continued ...