Apple Aluminium Keyboard review (scissor switches)

[Chyros]

There have been quite a few requests to review one of these. Considering they turned up every week in every recycling centre I ever visited, it wasn't hard to get one of these. Hope you enjoy the video!

[Daniel Beardsmore]

There are worse chiclet keyboards than that one? Seriously? Next time you find one, do the world a favour and kill it with fire. And send me one so that I can also kill one with fire.

That Apple keyboard has such short travel and so little feeling that you may as well be typing on thin air.

I used an Acer Revo One keyboard briefly the other day, and it's so much better:

http://www.computershopper.com/desktops ... -rl85-ur45

The keycaps are taller and the keys have significantly more travel and more feeling. It's still no Cherry ML, but it's at the better end of the spectrum for scissor switches. Whether it will still be smooth in a few years or whether it will get dome rot and end up feeling crunchy and rotten, I don't know.

The larger laptops of the past didn't kill anyone (except maybe if you put one in a trebuchet), so surely it's not that big of a deal to add a couple of millimetres to the height of the machine to make the keyboard usable again. After all, Apple's objective seems to be that if laptop users are forced to suffer abominable keyboards, then desktop users must share in their pain.

[PollandAkuma]

As a laptop user, Apple's chiclet is bearable, and just a rank below modern Thinkpad keyboards. I hate the super short travel of the new laptop keyboards, but find it troublesome to bottom out on a mech every time, so chiclet is a nice compromise haah

[vivalarevolución]

Now this is the review I have been waiting for!

[seebart]

I'll only watch it if Chyros swears in it, my standards are high.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Sadly, no, no hilarious tirade against this flimsy heap of rubbish … That would have made it all so worthwhile.

[seebart]

Sadly, no, no hilarious tirade against this flimsy heap of rubbish … That would have made it all so worthwhile.

Ah, I see, how disappointing. Thank you for that information Daniel. Apple of all companies needs to be flamed hard. That's why that Smith-Corona video was so brilliant, some of Chyros best work yet.

[Stabilized]

I can't believe the newer magic keyboard is selling for £100 new! There's reports that it has even less key travel then the one reviewed here.

[Chyros]

Sadly, no, no hilarious tirade against this flimsy heap of rubbish … That would have made it all so worthwhile.

Ah, I see, how disappointing. Thank you for that information Daniel. Apple of all companies needs to be flamed hard. That's why that Smith-Corona video was so brilliant, some of Chyros best work yet.

I'd have ranted more if it was rant-worthy :p . It's honestly not the worst I've tried, though. Basically, it could've been a lot better if they had changed everything xD .

[Tuntematon]

So a major American company uses the North American spelling of aluminum. Seems fair

[Chyros]

So a major American company uses the North American spelling of aluminum. Seems fair

Of all the things the Americans have done to the English language, the words "mom" and "aloominum" are definitely the worst IMO :p .

[Daniel Beardsmore]

"Aluminum" is just as British: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

"mom" is used in Britain. My paternal grandmother (from the West Midlands) was "mom" to my father, while my maternal grandmother (from York) was "mam" to my mother.

"burglarize" and "burgle" are both from ca. 1870s — I guess that was a really bad time for crime in both countries?

[daedalus]

There are worse chiclet keyboards than that one?

The keyboard on the latest generation of Apple laptops makes those older desktop keyboards feel like a joy to type on in comparison.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Maybe the new ones are just pieces of cardboard with photos of keyboards printed on them. I need to check their patents more closely …

[Chyros]

"Aluminum" is just as British: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

I didn't say it's not British, I just said it's wrong :p . The only reason IUPAC considers "aluminum" as an "acceptable alternative" is because they're basically all American themselves :p . They outlawed "sulphur" for the same reason.

And "mom" just sounds terrible when spoken in an American accent - "MAWM". Someone from the Midlunds would pronounce "mom" as fairly close to "mum" anyway, right?

[Daniel Beardsmore]

You said that "the Americans have done [something] to the English language" — and all they are guilty of is accepting the name that the British gave to the element, and then not playing along when we changed the name yet again. Americans didn't remove the "u" from "colour" either — that was added later in Britain to make Latin-derived -or words look more French. Most of what people spout about UK vs US spelling, especially all the anti-US sentiment, is pure nonsense. I don't like American spelling, but it's not their fault! I assume I simply prefer what I grew up with.

I don't recall hearing "mom" said with a Birmingham accent (if I did, it was too long ago), but the issue did make it briefly into the news here: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/mi ... k-10475107

[Chyros]

Ugh, why do I even...

[Daniel Beardsmore]

I have no idea either … I can't figure out what's wrong with you.

[codemonkeymike]

I like to say al-u-minium like a brit because it's fun and everyone in chemistry thought I was crazy. But in an every day setting its an overbearingly long word to use in a sentence and brits like their antiquated extra vowels and such. Also its the Brits who changed their pronunciations not the Americans changing their pronunciations so we are right and you are wrong .

*ducks*

[Chyros]

I have no idea either … I can't figure out what's wrong with you.

You're right, I'll just go back to ignoring you .

[seebart]

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