Apple Magic Keyboard

Matias Sculpted keyboard… Although it was a decent effort, their overall build quality is pretty cheap, and it's not good enough to recommend I concur. I thought I'd save a few bucks by buying the Matias keyboard that looks like the Apple Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad. After all, there are thousands of people on the internet who swear that Apple's prices are disconnected from build quality. [...] The Matias keyboard lasted all of a year. I ended up replacing it with the real deal from Apple, which is still going strong six years later. [...]

Apple keyboards are near-horrific IMO I visited a mechanical keyboard shop, tried about 20 of them including low profile variants, then visited an Apple shop. [...] The apple magic keyboard, full-size, gives me about 10-20% faster typing speeds. Over the previous three years I had only used mechanical keyboards. [...] There's something about feeling the whole aluminium frame and plastic membrane flex when I hit a key hard that I find pleasing in a way that isn't matched by many other keyboards. I bought one, and it's the only piece of apple hardware I own. My 3 mechanical keyboards are collecting dust.

the Apple Magickeyboard b/c it's exactly like a laptop and clicky I'm being super pedantic, but it's not, the switches and especially keycaps are different from what they use in e.g. [...] For 99% they'll be close enough, but for me this makes the magic keyboard a no-go. I'm still looking for the holy grail, an external keyboard that's a near copy of the Macbook keyboard. [...] Or, similarly, a keyboard that is even softer and lower travel than the Macbook keyboard. [...]

[...] Although, I think tenting and split is honestly 99% of the value here, I don’t really get the whole mechanical keyboard click clacky thing. I actually prefer the key pressing experience of something like an Apple Magic Keyboard, nice and crisp and immediate. [...] In a moment of frustration I wrapped the tenting attachment in tennis racket overgrip, which actually drastically improves the feeling of the thing IMO, it really keeps the keyboard in place and removes a lot of the creaky noises from the plastic tenting kits. [...]

I've tried numerous keyboards and the conclusion I've come to is that there's low profile and then there's low profile. [...] If you compare it to the Apple Magic Keyboard I'm typing on now – and that seems like a definite inspiration for the Bayleaf – it's a stark contrast. [...] The Magic Keyboard feels fine to type on without any sort of wrist support and I never feel any strain. [...]

[...] Certain keyboards can be tracked, like the Apple Magic Keyboard so they are displayed in the VR world and you can type on them like normal. Battery life is not so good. Many people (including me) find the quest 3 is not so comfortable; the "elite strap" is way better and doubles the battery life. [...] I got the headset so I could make VR worlds and I have experimented a bit with WebXR. [...] By the time I put on the headset, vite has triggered a reload and I can see the updates so it's a quick development cycle. [...]

Pre-post edit: excuse the keyboard rant. [...] Definitely better than the soggy ass Dell and Lenovo keyboards at least. But I would still rather have a proper keyboard with some travel. [...] My daily driver keyboard is an Apple Magic Keyboard on my Mac mini and that's fine as well. I only use it so I don't have switch back and forth between a different keyboard and the MBP when I need to. [...] The MX boards are just too high, too noisy and too expensive. Got to say the best keyboard I've used in recent years though is a Cherry Stream TKL. That's actually surprisingly good and very cheap (£25). [...]

When I said this convention was old, I meant it: Apple Extended Keyboard M0115 (1987): Apple Extended Keyboard II M0312/M3501 (1990): Apple Adjustable Keyboard M1242 (1993): Apple Design Keyboard M2980 (1994): Apple USB Keyboard M2453 (1998) (not in their usual position, above the number pad instead): / Apple Pro Keyboard M7803 (2000): Apple Keyboard A1048 (2003): Apple Keyboard A1243 (2007): Apple Magic Keyboard w/ Numeric Keypad A1843 (2017): Additionally at least as far back as the Powerbook G3 "Wallstreet" in 1998, and including the iBook lines from the same time period, to the best of my knowledge every Apple portable since (as well as any wireless/compact keyboards with Fn keys) then has supported Fn + Left/Right for Home/End respectively and Fn + Up/Down for Page Up / Page Down respectively. They were even marked as such through the early non-unibody MBPs but continue to function that way today even without the markings. While these aren't dedicated keys, they're convenient enough in combination with the other modifiers that you'd be using to move the cursor that I don't personally consider it a significant difference.

[...] The Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID. I like how the keyboard is identical to the almost all previous MacBook Pro's I've had (including current). [...] Zero learning curve of a new keyboard for almost 15 years now […]

I just got an Apple Magic Keyboard for my iPad Air 4th Gen. [...] I’ve had my ipad for about 2 years now and it has never felt more usable than this. Feels like the keyboard has unlocked the ipad’s full power.

I guess it's a matter of habit, but after so many years of laptop keyboards everything else feels weird/wrong. I've tried mechanical keyboards (for about half ayear) .. and it always felt like using some antique typewriter b/c of the key travel If I need a detached keyboard then the only one that feels normal is the Apple Magickeyboard b/c it's exactly like a laptop and clicky (the logitech equivalents are very mushy). [...]

[...] I was trying to find a case + keyboard with good reviews, no luck then, I didn't think it was possible, I've found out that you can use an apple magic keyboard with it and I had a spare one, so I have a case and a bluetooth magic keyboard. The keyboard, comparing to anything that is sold for tablets is amazing, laptop experience.

[...] Every time I used wireless keyboards (microsoft sculpt, latest kinesis advantage), I had issues from time to time. Come to think of it, only apple magic keyboard never failed me. [...]

Is the mechanical keyboard craze still going on? At some point everyone was talking about / showing off their mech keyboard in developer scene. [...] Got a couple of keyboards and now I have two Apple Magic Keyboards. [...]

[...] compared to other gaming platforms where I meet a lot of younger people, I find there are a lot of older and retired people using VR, which is not what Meta is looking for for a Facebook replacement. [...] The Apple Magic Keyboard pairs perfectly, as does a mouse. [...]

[...] I do think ergo keyboards can help a lot when you have RSIs or other physical constraints, but I think 90+% of the people who are MKB enthusiasts could be just as productive interfacing with a computer using a $20 Microsoft OEM keyboard. I use an Apple magic keyboard for work and I don’t think it really slows me down. I could maybe see if you are a writer and you are outputting thousands of lines a day a good keyboard could make a difference, but if you are writing that many lines of code you should be concerned that LLMs are going to take your job writing boilerplate. Just give me two monitors, a stock install of Ubuntu, and any $20 keyboard and I can do anything.

Mice work fine with the MQ3. I log into my Windows machine with Immersed all the time with many virtual screens and less bandwidth hoggery so I'd have no problem using it over the WAN. It can track an Apple Magic Keyboard so it can show it to me when the passthrough is off.

The Apple Magic keyboard I have does this and thought it was a common feature of Bluetooth keyboards. Apparently not...

[...] All of my custom keyboard dreams start from the Apple Magic Keyboard as the basis. [...] I just want them split, and Columnar, and… something like ZSA's new Voyager but preserving the things that make the Magic Keyboard great is what I have in mind.

Having used many mechanical keyboards over the years - including a Model M inherited from my dad - my dirty little secret is that I keep coming back to the Apple Magic Keyboard. I’d never admit it in public, though.

The tilde key on my Apple Magic Keyboard broke so I bought a clicky mechanical keyboard and from now on all my posts will be about the Keychron Q6 Max and the virtues of Gateron Jupiter banana switches.

I have Mac mini setup on the other screen and Apple magic keyboard sucks at working with multiple devices so I bought a cheap one to use for the Mac mini 😇 Mac mini is like the home server + I want to experiment with OpenClaw 😅

[...] A brand new Apple Magic Keyboard… En/US - Hebrew !! (It’s gonna be much more easier, I was fed up with the virtual kb on my iPad (comfortable but…) or my iPhone (tiny 13 mini).

This is my first post using the IPAD as a suedo typewriter with the $20 logo keys-to-go 2 keyboard in LILAC that WORKS. Still have 7 GB of PHOTOS to DELETE to get the Real Apple Magic Keyboard, that does NOT hold my IPAD up—them magnets are WEAK—to work. HOWEVER this is the SECOND note from TOM R.

The Apple magic keyboard will connect via bluetooth to just about anything. I have used it with an iPhone, Linux computers & an Android tablet & it is practically indestructible. Found it at Goodwill for abt $5 downloaded the manual @ Apple.com Hope that helps!

I've been using the Apple Magic Keyboard for a long, long time now, and I have to wonder if I'll be truly alienated from "mechanical" keyboards, but I like to introduce something new into my life once in a while just to keep things spicy.

@levelsio x-levelsio Apple Magic Keyboard I bought, the TouchID doesn't do anything either So I checked that serial number and Apple also doesn't know it? 🤯

Through work I got the new Asus ProArt 5k display and an Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, and got a Magic Trackpad from my dad he no longer used. The display supposedly has KVM functionality. I should be able to just plug the keyboard and trackpad into it and everything just works right? [...]

When are they going to do the iPad version of this app cuz i use apple Magic Keyboard with my iPad and all i can see is this and this it’s keep change every 3 mins

I got an Apple Magic keyboard for my iPad. Game changer. Now I don't need a macbook.

[...] Beautiful keyboard, but when I heard "magic" I hoped to find a touch ID. That sensor so useful that even though I use a mechanical keyboard, I keep an apple magic keyboard off to the side of my desk just for the touch ID sensor. What I'd love to have is a standalone touch ID sensor that I could attach anywhere -- mechanical keyboard, side of the monitor, under my desk, etc. I guess this is bottlenecked by Apple's IP on the device, so I've considered just hacking one together by deconstructing and extracting an Apple keyboard...

I am not that hardcore of a mech keyboard person where I build my own/lube switches. [...] My problem was instead of buying as switch tester I started buying random keyboards with different switches so I now have too many. I also used to use the Apple magic keyboards those small ones with a cylinder battery holder.

I would go for the apple magic keyboard, except for that arrow key cluster. [...]

I’ve been using a dumb Apple Magic Keyboard. I like the low profile and low noise but I wouldn’t mind getting something with more travel and louder. I have been working a lot with the arrow and 10 keys, wish I had something that could do it all: split, full, no small arrows, nice medium-short travel

I got sticker shock when I first bought an Apple Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad. [...]