The sleek, stylish Apple wired keyboard puts a world of convenience at your fingertips! The comfortable, ergo-tilted keyboard is housed incurable, lightweight aluminum, and a pair of USB 2.0 ports to ease the congestion on your computer’s USB panel. The sensitive, low-profile keys reduce hand strain by allowing you to type more lightly, and the10-key pad will help speed you through numeric tasks.
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Apple’s ingenious keyboard includes an impressive set of productivity tools, like one-touch controls for brightness, volume, eject, play/pause, forward and rewind, Expose, and Dashboard. Just like your Mac, the Apple keyboard is a perfect blend of beauty and functionality.
The Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad is an elegantly designed input device that is sure to turn heads. It features a standard QWERTY layout, dedicated OS X function keys, an integrated two-port USB 2.0 hub, and an ultra-thin anodized aluminum design. The keys themselves are of the low-profile variety, practically identical in feel and function to those found on Apple’s MacBook line of notebook computers.
- USB 2.0 interface with integrated 2-port hub
- Ultra-thin design has to be seen to be believed
- Chicklet-style keys mirror those found on Mac notebooks
- Full-size keyboard with integrated numeric keypad
- Dedicated function keys give you quick access to many common functions in OS
The Keyboard With Numeric Keypad – English (USA) from Apple features an elegant, ultra-thin anodized aluminum enclosure with low profile keys that provide a crisp, responsive feel. It has function keys for one-touch access to a variety of Mac features, an extended layout that includes document navigation tools, a built-in numeric keypad and two USB 2.0 ports.
Low Profile Keys
This Apple keyboard features low profile keys that provide a crisp, responsive feel
This Apple keyboard features low profile keys that provide a crisp, responsive feel
Extended Layout
The extended layout includes document navigation controls —page up, page down, home, and end, as well as full-size arrow keys for playing games and scrolling through documents
The extended layout includes document navigation controls —page up, page down, home, and end, as well as full-size arrow keys for playing games and scrolling through documents
One-Touch Access to Mac Features
Function keys allow for one-touch access to a variety of Mac features such as screen brightness, volume, eject, play/pause, fast-forward and rewind, Exposé, and Dashboard
Function keys allow for one-touch access to a variety of Mac features such as screen brightness, volume, eject, play/pause, fast-forward and rewind, Exposé, and Dashboard
Numeric Keypad
The numeric keypad is perfect for spreadsheets and finance applications
The numeric keypad is perfect for spreadsheets and finance applications
Two USB 2.0 Ports
These enable you to connect your mouse as well as a high-speed peripheral like a digital camera or printer
These enable you to connect your mouse as well as a high-speed peripheral like a digital camera or printer
Finally, after FOUR years of running this specific Hackintosh that dual boots with Windows, I have bothered to take the time to figure out how to make the Apple Aluminum Keyboard work 100% under Windows (On a NON Mac hardware machine.) My Volume and play control buttons work in windows now!! Even with the nice Apple On Screen Display. I can CONFIRM working on Windows 7 64BIT, almost positive that the same process will work on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 64bit (Assuming 32 bit variants would just require using the 32 bit drivers)
Step one: Download the current BootCamp Support software for Windows from Apple.
Step TWO: using the program “7-Zip” , launch the 7-Zip file Manager and navigate to your BootCamp Drivers download and double click on it, then double click on the “BootCamp” folder, THEN, double click on the “Drivers” folder, THEN, double click on the “Apple” folder… you should be here now:
Step Three: Drag the “BootCamp64.msi” file on to your desktop. [For 64bit versions of Windows]
Best alternative to apple keyboard. Step Three A: If you are on a 32 bit version of Windows, drag the “BootCamp.msi” file to your desktop, not “BootCamp64.msi” and ALSO Drag the “AppleKeyboardInstaller.exe” file on to your desktop. (NOTE; THESE ARE UNCONFIRMED STEPS FOR A 32 BIT INSTALLATION)
Step Four: Double click on the “x64” folder and drag the “AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe” file to your desktop. [For 64 bit versions of Windows]
Step Five: Connect the Apple Aluminum Keyboard
Step Six: Double click the “AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe” file [for 64 bit versions of windows] OR the “AppleKeyboardInstaller.exe” file [For 32 bit versions of Windows] and allow the installer to run. [NOTE: Your mouse and keyboard will be unresponsive until this install finishes.]
Step Seven: In the “Search” bar of the Windows start menu (Windows 7) or in the “Search” Charm on 8 or 8.1 type “CMD” the command prompt result will be displayed. Right click on that and select “Run As Administrator”. The Command Prompt will launch
Step 8: Navigate to the loaction where your “Bootcamp64.msi” [64 bit versions of windows] or “BootCamp.msi” [32 bit versions of Windows] files are located:
Step Nine: Run the Boot Camp installer by executing the command “BootCamp64.msi NOCHECK=1” [64 bit versions of Windows] OR “BootCamp.msi NOCHECK=1” [32 bit versions of Windows]
Step Ten: [[The Boot Camp installer will run, “agree” and click “Next” through it, it will take several minutes to complete.]]
When the Boot Camp installer completes you will be prompted to RESTART your computer, go ahead and restart… we’re ALMOST there!!
Step Eleven: after your computer reboots, press Win+R and type “regedit” to launch the registry editor
Step Twelve: Inside of Registry Editor navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesKeyMagic
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesKeyMagic
and set the value for “OSXFnBehavior” to 0
ALSO, Navigate to;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesKeyMagic
and set the value for “OSXFnBehavior” to 0
Close regedit.
Apple Aluminum Keyboard
Step Thirteen: Reboot one final time
Apple Aluminum Keyboard With Numeric Keypad
Step Fourteen: ENJOY YOUR FULLY FUNCTIONAL Apple Aluminum Keyboard under Windows! With fully working transport controls, FN keys, volume buttons, eject button, etc.