I’ve long looked for an Apple-specific desktop keyboard with backlighting. There are a couple of mechanical options out there, but they are almost all compromised some way.
- Bluebaum Matias Wired Aluminum Keyboard For Macbook Pro
- Bluebaum Matias Wired Aluminum Keyboard For Mac (silver)
- Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard
Some aren’t true Mac keyboard layouts, just Windows layouts with the command row re-labelled. And if you’re after small and sleek, that rules mechanical out anyway. Adobe photoshop cc 2017 crack formacosx. For all their glorious comfort, they are all big, chunky and, well, mechanical devices. What I really wanted was a Space Gray Apple keyboard with backlighting.
Matias Wired Aluminum Keyboard Matias makes all kinds of neat keyboards for the Mac, from clicky to super-secure to ergonomic. And this one has all the Mac compatibility of an Apple-made model.
Bluebaum Matias Wired Aluminum Keyboard For Macbook Pro
Bluebaum Matias Wired Aluminum Keyboard For Mac (silver)
Eventually Apple themselves did a Space Gray, if I wanted to fork over $6,000+ CAD for an iMac Pro, and it still doesn’t have backlighting. For anyone with more modest budgets, we were left out in the cold. That is until Matias announced at CES 2018 that they were stepping in to fill the gap with their RGB Backlit Wired Aluminum Keyboard for Mac. In fairness, this isn’t their first Mac-specific, Space Gray, backlit keyboard. Last year they launched a wireless version, which I also tried.
Unfortunately, what was a decent design was hamstrung by the problems associated with Bluetooth. I’ve never had great experiences with wireless keyboards, and the flaky Bluetooth on the Late 2013 Mac Pro made it especially unliveable. The combination of Matias wireless keyboard and Mac Pro meant dropped keystrokes, and this odd buffering where your keystrokes would stop being registered for the Mac, but stored in the keyboard, then dumped to the Mac all at once.
Matias Wireless Aluminum Keyboard
This ranged from mildly annoying (while typing a document) to incredibly frustrating (when playing a game). I’m happy to report that switching to a wired interface has eliminated all of those problems. I was expecting the keyboard to look and feel identical to last year’s wireless keyboard, just with a USB cable to plug in, but it isn’t.