| Perfect tool for the editing geek. |
| I'm an aspiring filmmaker. I do TONS of editing work from the comfort and ease of my computer and FCP software... this keyboard is color coded (which is somewhat helpful, showing different types of tool with a different color. eg, mark points yellow, edit and trimming pink, different cursors orange, and so on) but I think the most helpful feature is that it shows all the shortcut buttons on the keys themselves. I've learned a lot of the shortcut keys myself already, but now it's REALLY easy to read... A fairly quick glance at the keyboard will find you your shortcut, saving mouse drag search and click time. (I know a professional editor that can edit an entire feature project without using the mouse once, it's quite impressive.)
What I DISLIKE about this keyboard is that (like many keyboards) it is a slightly different size than the Mac standard keyboard. I belive the keys on this one are slightly smaller. Which isn't a big deal per-se... I'm sure in a couple days I will be used to this one. But I do go for keys based on instinct and spacial relation, so sometimes I hit the wrong key. In particular the command key and some of the pinky keys feel off to me. Another thing that should be noted is the eject/volume keys are not located above the number pad, but instead above the function keys. It's actually nice up there... but the eject key seems to prompt the shut down pop up for me. I'm not sure if this is the case for all systems/settings, but F12 should eject your drive anyway. A set of other buttons such as calculator, www, an envelope are also there that do not seem to do anything for me. The keys (though they do have a nice feel to them) seem to have a tendency to stick if you do not press them firmly and squarely. For me this is a big disadvantage, since my typing is all over the place.
Good teaching tool, but hard to get used to. The standard mac keyboard has a much nicer feel to it.
| | Works fine every other day |
| This keyboard would stop responding on my mac pro. I'd get an error occasionally saying there wasn't enough power supplied to it. I contacted the seller who told me tough luck as I was past my first 30 days. I RMAed it back to Bella who were nice enough to send me a brand new one. But I still got the same problem. Occasionally it would be recognized. But more times that not, I'd boot up and it would act as though it wasn't even there. There's a chance it's my new Mac not supplying enough power. But I've run multiple ext hard drives from the same USB ports with no problem so watch out. It might not be compatible with latest Macs.
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