![]() ![]() Even so, that logo’s absence lets you pick up what essentially amounts to a passable cousin of the Apple Magic Keyboard 2 with a keypad for a mere $79.99. I am reluctant to switch to Win 7 since I don't believe it will be faster and it offers no other advantage for our work.Alas, an occasionally wonky pairing process reminds us that Apple’s logo usually speaks of a level of quality you can’t get from other companies. This generally works on a VM running on Parallels 6, which is one of the reasons that I hope that the new release is faster. Unfortunately, even my wife's Mac Pro eight core i5 with 8GB of memory is not fast enough to run Transit NXT plus Dragon Naturally Speaking in Win XP VM on Fusion. As you might imagine I do not want to go back to working on flat keyboards. I was already suffering the early stages of RSI and recovered completely after switching to these keyboards and replacing the mouse with a trackball. Unfortunately Apple doesn't make ergonomic keyboards that can be spread apart to form an angle to suit the user's hands and tipped to further fit the user. You could say why don't we simply use the original Apple keyboards. However, if you are using STAR's Transit NXT, it is a pain. For most programs, the lack of a keypad may be annoying but it is not particularly troublesome. It isn't the keypad itself, since I have tried 2 different ones and ones from 2 different manufacturers (Belkin and ? can't remember). In both cases, the mac recognizes the keypad but the VM does not recognize the number lock. ![]() In this case, the numeric keypad is a separate USB keypad that connects to the mac on a separate USB port. We then upgraded to new keyboards which connect to the mac directly via a USB port (no adapter any more) and work fine with every mac program that we've tried (and that's a lot). These had keypads that connected to the mac through the main keyboard so you were only using a single USB port for the combination of the main ergonomic split keyboard + a separate keypad. ![]() Our first ones were old PC keyboards connected via an adapter to a USB port on the mac. The problem is that we use special ergonomic split keyboards from Fujitsu/Siemens (helps prevent RSI when you work on the machine 8-14 hours/day 7 days a week). If I connect an old Apple keyboard with a numeric keypad, the number lock works. ![]()
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