The top keyboard in that image is the wired and the bottom is the wireless/bluetooth version. Yes, those are to scale. No, the new wireless version does not have a keypad…or any of the new “shortcut” keys. The new wireless version is effectively just a cut out of a laptop keyboard. In other words, lame.[...] Thanks to chanpory for providing this nice story on Digg (more than 16Diggs).
What other users say about this:
asciilogic: The new wireless kb does have the shortcut keys. However, I’ll have to try it before I replace my current Apple wireless kb.
DaffyDuck: Hmm, so the keyboard on my MBP is lame and I was completely unaware. The keypad is a waste of space for me.
gti5driver: The wireless version *does* have the same shortcut keys. I don’t know wtf the author is talking about.
OS2Guy: I think your opinion is wrong – the new smaller wireless keyboard is perfect and dumping all the extraneous keys (the two keypads, the extra keys) are generally not needed or used by the professional. I never use the keypad as a numberpad and have always relied on typing numbers using the top row of keys. Everything else is there too, the arrow keys and delete keys. Being more compact ensures the wireless ability to be fast and sweet – it doesn’t have to support all those extraneous keys. Very wise of Apple. Your review is way off base.
