'The best keyboard Apple ever made' goes on a diet. Based on our award-winning Tactile Pro keyboard, the Mini Tactile Pro is smaller, and also built from the same premium ALPS clicky keyswitch technology that Apple used in its original Apple Extended Keyboard - widely viewed as the best keyboard Apple ever made.
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The keys have a nice solid feel to them. I found that with standard Mac keyboards, the keycaps would easily come off and be nigh on impossible to replace—there's no such concern with this keyboard.2. The keyboard has some good heft to it, and feels like it will last for quite a few years.Cons:1. It's not excessively noisy, but you couldn't use this in a quiet, shared space without disturbing those around you.
People always know when you're working, and, more to the point, they also know when you've stopped. Anyone familiar with a 'typing pool' environment will know what this sounds like.2. The plastic of the frame is OK if you're not too bothered by aesthetics. It's solid, but I do wonder if, over the years, it will 'yellow' as white plastic often does. If they made this with a brushed aluminium or stainless steel frame, it would be a perfect complement to the iMac.3. One of the USB ports doesn't work. Not a big problem for me, but I would expect for a keyboard at this price everything should work.
It wasn't worth the effort of sending it back.Overall, a good piece of kit. The keys have a nice solid feel to them. I found that with standard Mac keyboards, the keycaps would easily come off and be nigh on impossible to replace—there's no such concern with this keyboard.2. The keyboard has some good heft to it, and feels like it will last for quite a few years.Cons:1. It's not excessively noisy, but you couldn't use this in a quiet, shared space without disturbing those around you. People always know when you're working, and, more to the point, they also know when you've stopped.
Anyone familiar with a 'typing pool' environment will know what this sounds like.2. The plastic of the frame is OK if you're not too bothered by aesthetics. It's solid, but I do wonder if, over the years, it will 'yellow' as white plastic often does. If they made this with a brushed aluminium or stainless steel frame, it would be a perfect complement to the iMac.3.
One of the USB ports doesn't work. Not a big problem for me, but I would expect for a keyboard at this price everything should work. It wasn't worth the effort of sending it back.Overall, a good piece of kit. This is my second TactilePro keyboard- the first one has lasted something like twelve years of continuous home use and feels as good as ever, but characters are wearing off the key caps and some of the surrounding plastic bits have broken (without affecting the functioning in any vital way) and I decided 5hat I could treat myself to a replacement.Quite simply, it's solid, jolly noisy (in a very positive way), feels superbly precise and gives wings to my fingers. It is just very, very good.A very wide range of characters, far more than I shall ever use, is available direct from the keyboard. Plus useful direct key controls for sound and brightness.
The surrounding plastic bits (feet, keyboard surround) look as though they are made of a different, possibly more durable plastic. Maybe this one will see me out completely?But the point about a keyboard is typing.
The TactilePro range has always been superb for its positive feel, quick response; a proper writing tool. Noisy, but joyfully so.This one carries on the tradition, beautifully. The keyboard is very precise, so an unintentional repeating letter is very rare, unlike Apple's Magic Keyboard, which occurred very often. It is noisy, being the nature of a mechanical keyboard, but I bought mine for home use. It takes up more space than the magic keyboard, but its worth it for the extra keys.
As the letters on the keys have been burnt on by laser, then they should be visible for a long time. I touch type, which means I don't bash the keys like 'hunt and peck' typists, and I see this keyboard outliving a few iMacs. The keyboard was delivered the next day, and included a couple of useful freebies, which was a nice touch. I am very pleased with this purchase. As a recent convert from Microsoft and Windows to Apple PC technology (Mac Pro) there was a lot to get used to. With an open mind I've tried to embrace the lot, but the switch after 30 years from an IBM-style keyboard to an Apple Magic keyboard was a keypress too far. The Magic keyboard is beautiful, compact, an inexhaustible battery, but it has too light a touch.
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If a typing finger when lifting off a key makes a slightest brush with an adjacent key, you'll find your work full of typos. It was a relief to get back to the touch of a standard keyboard of the Matias Tactile Pro with its familiar layout of non-alphabetic keys. It also has the advantage of another set of symbols using the Option key. the absurdly high price, the clattering noise of the keys (surely that could be tamed?), and for some the wire to the PC might be inconvenient but it's no problem on my desk.
I should hate to go back to that beautiful Magic keyboard now! I recently switched from PC to Mac, and spent a very long time trying to find a mechanical keyboard that would work with my iMac. As soon as I found this, I knew that it was what I needed.
It's far more satisfying to type on than the Magic Keyboard that shipped with my iMac, and the full num pad is very useful. I know that I could have just remapped my old mechanical, but as it had a full Windows key layout, I wanted something with a Mac layout to ease the transition. It feels nice and solid beneath my fingers, and it really is a joy to type on.
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