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Apple - Keyboard - USB - white - English - United Kingdom | 
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Buy New: £25.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1544
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 16.9 x 4.5 x 0.6
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Model: MB110B/A
UPC: 885909173945
EAN: 0885909173945
ASIN: B000VLYEL4
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Keyboard | | • | English - United Kindom | | • | Wired - USB | | • | Multimedia, optical media eject, volume, brightness, Expose | | • | 1 x keyboard cable |
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| Customer Reviews:
 How do Apple do it? July 9, 2008
nicjaytee (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Once again, Apple take a fairly mundane piece of kit and transform into something that not only looks super-cool but works better than the everything else out there. Beautifully thin but heavy enough to be rock solid in use, supremely easy to type on and incredibly easy to clean, it has all the function buttons you need including perfectly placed iTunes controls plus a USB slot for your mouse to reduce the tangle of wires on your desk. It's also cheap. How do they do it?
A big improvement over the old Apple keyboard June 19, 2008
A. Butterfield (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After four years doing okay with but not loving an old-style Apple keyboard that gave me too many unwanted double keystrokes, I decided to give this new keyboard a try.
I am quite a fast typist, but I couldn't type quickly on the old keyboard, or at least not with any accuracy.
So, now I've been using this new one for a while, and it sure feels like nothing else when you first use it. It's so low to the desk it feels weird, but it also feels rather nice for that reason. The keys are very short travel, which I thought might be uncomfortable, but they don't feel hard on the fingers and the pressure needed is just right for me.
I can type super-fast and accurately, which is the main thing. The flat profile means that your fingers can really fly over the keys, which are very smooth. You almost expect your fingers to slip off them but it doesn't happen. I think short fingernails are going to be important to get the best out of it.
It sits flat on your desk and is quite heavy, despite the slim profile.
So, pretty much full marks for accuracy, feel and comfort, at least for me. I don't type all day long so I can't comment on how it feels for really extended use.
It looks very cool too, and everybody who sees it immediately oohs and aahs. Is that a real keyboard? Well, it doesn't look like one but it is. It looks incredibly small on your desk, but that's just because there's essentially no surround, not just because it's so thin.
Unlike the old Apple keyboard, the two USB ports built in to this wired version are in the sides rather than the rear. They're recessed a long way under the keyboard, which is good for things with wires (keeps the socket out of sight), but not so good (and maybe impossible) for bulkier things that plug straight into the socket with no trailing wire, like chubby memory sticks.
The USB sockets, as ever, are unpowered of course, but they are USB 2.0. Fine for plugging in a mouse, but not your USB powered fridge...
So it works really well, looks great, and it's cheap enough. It's so completely different in feel to the old Apple keyboard that you just might find this is a refreshing change. I did.
 Almost Perfect. Very Hard To Fault May 22, 2008
Alan (United Kingdom)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I reviewed the previous Apple keyboard about a year ago, and found 4 significant problems with it. The good news is, it seems like Apple really do listen to their customers, since this new keyboard solves all of them. Well, almost.
The previous Apple keyboard had 2 USB 1.0 ports. This new keyboard finally has 2 fully working USB 2.0 ports. The only catch is, they don't work properly if you connect the keyboard to a white iMac. You can't plug things like USB Flash Drives or Digital Cameras into either of the USB sockets without getting a "USB Low Power Notice" warning. However, connect the keyboard to an aluminium iMac, and both sockets work as intended.
The previous Apple keyboard didn't have any dedicated buttons for controlling iTunes. While this new keyboard doesn't actually add any keys, it makes good use of the F1 to F12 keys with appropriate labels. The F7 key skips to the previous track and rewinds. The F8 key toggles between play and pause. The F9 key skips to the next track and fast forwards. The F10 key mutes the volume. The F11 key decreases the volume. The F12 key increases the volume. But wait, there's more. The F1 decreases the display brightness. The F2 increases the display brightness. The F3 key shows all windows using Expose. And the F4 calls up the Dashboard. There's also a dedicated key for ejecting CDs and DVDs; just make sure you hold it down, instead of tapping it.
The previous Apple keyboard didn't have a wrist rest. Wrist rests are typically used to bring your wrists up to the height of the keyboard, because keyboards are so thick. Well, this new keyboard is SO thin that it doesn't actually need one. The top surface of the keyboard is elevated just 6mm off your desk at the front! So that's one less piece of junk cluttering up your desk.
The previous Apple keyboard scratched very easily, because it was made partially from clear plastic. Well, this new keyboard is infinitely more durable, being made from a single sheet of aluminium. The previous keyboard also scratched your desk very easily, as it had metal studs as feet. This new keyboard has 4 rubber studs as feet, which will definitely NOT scratch your desk.
Overall, I really think this keyboard is almost perfect. The design is excellent. It has such a clean, simple, elegant shape. It feels very solid and well engineered, yet is very easy to pick up and move around. Some people don't like the flat keys, but they make the keyboard very fast and effortless to type on, plus they make very little noise. In short, if you like and appreciate the keyboards on the MacBook and MacBook Air, you'll love this.
The only thing I don't like about this new Apple keyboard is that it doesn't have Multi-Touch... yet. I really wish it had an integrated Multi-Touch trackpad, possibly replacing the numerical keypad, so that I could put my Microsoft mouse in the bin. Multi-Touch trackpads are such a joy to use. Having to move your hand over to a big plastic lump, that needs a special mat to run on, seems very old-fashioned and unnecessary. I want to move the pointer with my fingers, and control my computer using gestures. Hopefully, Apple will make this a reality some time within the next year.
Great! May 9, 2008
Mr. J.A.S. (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this to use with my macbook when working on a desk and I was surprised how ergonomic it is and how solid it feels. I love the short key travel and can really recommend this as a well built and well thought out keyboard. I also think its good value for money.
The old form/function debate April 29, 2008
F. Pearce (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, it looks very nice. That is if you're careful with it - the downside of aluminium, I suppose - it's rather easy to dent the sides (or for someone to dent them for you!). There isn't exactly a lot of 'feel' from the keyboard either (how could there be with it being so slim?) and can feel as though you're tapping a solid piece of, well, aluminium... Probably not much fun if you're planning on doing some serious typing. However, it's teeny while still being full size (erm, meaning the board is as tight as it possibly cold be round the full-size keyboard) and packs away under a screen very tidily. Also, all the function buttons in the right place which puts it a way ahead of nearly every other keyboard.
So, as long as it's being used for 'typical' modern-day computer use when the ergonomics of the mouse tend to be more critical than a soothingly squishy keyboard, it works pretty well.
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