I’ve never had great experiences with wireless keyboards, and the flaky Bluetooth on the Late 2013 Mac Pro made it especially unliveable. Unfortunately, what was a decent design was hamstrung by the problems associated with Bluetooth. Last year they launched a wireless version, which I also tried. In fairness, this isn’t their first Mac-specific, Space Gray, backlit keyboard. 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. For anyone with more modest budgets, we were left out in the cold. 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.
What I really wanted was a Space Gray Apple keyboard with backlighting. For all their glorious comfort, they are all big, chunky and, well, mechanical devices. And if you’re after small and sleek, that rules mechanical out anyway. Some aren’t true Mac keyboard layouts, just Windows layouts with the command row re-labelled. There are a couple of mechanical options out there, but they are almost all compromised some way. I’ve long looked for an Apple-specific desktop keyboard with backlighting.
