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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Few Keys Missing, February 9, 2005
This review is from: Kensington 64350 Keyboard-in-a-Box USB Keyboard for Mac (Mac/PC) (Personal Computers)
This keyboard is functional and I am generally satisfied by it, but I should have been more attentive about the things it does not offer. Unlike current Apple keyboards, this one has no volume control keys nor an eject key. After using an Apple keyboard for some time, I have grown quite fond of those keys and miss them.
Also, this keyboard came with two keys that initially did not respond to the same pressure as did the other keys. I was able - by means of mashing down quite firmly on them - to get them to respond normally and they have given me no further trouble.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
pretty good, not fabulous, October 7, 2005
This review is from: Kensington 64350 Keyboard-in-a-Box USB Keyboard for Mac (Mac/PC) (Personal Computers)
It's a good alternative to the official Mac keyboard. It is a true MacOS keyboard, not a repurposed Windoze keyboard: it has a Command key instead of an Alt key (though you can still emulate the Alt Key by pressing shift-Option); it has a power on/off button, etc. It lacks multimedia features (but the lack of the extra controls does mean that the unit is smaller than most Windoze keyboards.)
The feel of the keyboard is not as nice as the Apple keyboard: you have to hit the keys pretty hard and the unit is noisy. Happily, when you use this keyboard, you don't suffer from the repeating-key syndrome which makes life hell for Apple keyboard users.
The keyboard has two USB ports, which is handy.
One gripe I have is that the Caps Lock key is much too large and is in the wrong place. It is much too easy to hit the Caps Lock key when you mean to hit the Tab key (which I use much more often than the Caps Lock.) A lesser gripe is that it is easy to hit the F11 key instead of the Delete key (when you hit the F11 key, the current window shrinks to a bar on the side of the screen.)
It's not the ideal keyboard, but it's better than many of the alternatives.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice feel, but where are the volume and eject keys?, August 9, 2005
This review is from: Kensington 64350 Keyboard-in-a-Box USB Keyboard for Mac (Mac/PC) (Personal Computers)
I should have bought the Apple keyboard. This is a well-built and good 'feeling' keyboard, but it is missing the essential volume (up, down and mute) and the disk eject keys that are standard on all Apple brand keyboards. Why they would leave those off is beyond comprehension.
Also, Kensington tech support is very Mac unsavvy. When I contacted them about how to open the optical disk drawer (when there's not already a disk in the drive) on a Quicksilver G4 without an eject key, they said that F12 would work. Well, before OS X 10.4 (Tiger) it may have, but in Tiger F12 is the default key to activate the Dashboard. When I explained this to Kensington, they had no idea on earth what I was talking about. I finally had to change the Dashboard activation key to something else so that, now, F12 does indeed open the drawer, but if I had been a newbie to Macs I may not have recognized that such a key change was possible or how to do it. I'm glad I was able to help Kensington out.
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