Macally Backlit Wired Keyboard for Mac | Compatible Apple Keyboard (Small and Compact) Comfortable All Day Typing USB Keyboard for MacBook Pro/Air, iMac, Mac Mini/Pro (Space Grey)

I'm using this keyboard with a mid-2010 MacBook Pro and it's everything I was hoping for.I love older computers. I grew up with them, I find nostalgia in their use makes me happy - I can also crack open a notebook case and change out an aging battery without needing an engineering degree and specialized tools. Plan on using it as a portal to the home server, but I wasn't exactly crazy about continually using the stock keyboard. "What if I could expose a different keyboard to cheeto dust and cookie crumbs instead?!" I thought to myself before embarking on the search for something which could take the brunt of my snacking abuses...MacAlly has been around for a long time, and this keyboard shows why.The keys are great with just enough give and "clickyness" I don't feel like I'm typing on a piece of cheap garbage. I've bought other keyboards, full size, RGB lit, bells and whistles thrown about in the descriptions - they don't feel as nice to use as this little gem. The keys have a slight indent which looks and feels proper, like someone took the time to design this nicely.The whole unit feels solid. It doesn't creak or flex, has good rubber feet underneath, and the color matches well enough with the silvery-aluminum and black keys of the MacBook Pro. It's just about the same size as the keyboard on the MacBook Pro too, funny enough.Illumination is well done with three choices of brightness and access to keyboard functions is pretty simple. A couple of key presses and you can adjust brightness of your computer display or volume as example. The keyboard as a Mac-centric product works VERY well in the Apple OS X environment. I've used it in Snow Leopard, Yosemite and High Sierra versions. I'm assuming it'll work just as well from Mojave through to Sonoma OS versions, but I just haven't felt the need to buy a new Apple product since 2016 so I couldn't reliably verify.Anyhow - Yes, I feel this is VERY well done keyboard. I would recommend it to anyone looking to either replace a stock Mac keyboard with a more petite version that gives you backlit illumination as a perk, or as a sacrificial stalwart against exposing your notebook's keyboard to the grime of life and crumbly bits of regretful late night nibbling.Highly recommended. The Price Point at $40 bucks as bought I find fair considering it works, works well, and seems like it's well built enough I'd expect it to keep working for some time.

I looked far and wide, deep and long, running through even the darkest bowels of amazon to find the mythical keyboard I was looking for: something that wasn’t mechanical that also didn’t S some D. Well- here it is. This keyboard came straight and flat, not curved like McDonald sign, everything about the design is solid, any changes would be nitpicks or added unnecessary features, cord is long enough, feedback is real nice similar to typing on a mac keyboard (all I really want, I hate every keyboard that isn’t my MacBook and this is the closest thing I’ve found).It WORKS 100% with windows and PC and I don’t remember doing literally anything but pluggin it in like any other keyboard.Also, this has the perfect key layout- no complete waste of space in worthless second number pad, but still has music/volume/brightness control keys which are secondarily the F keys. This is perfect. I’ve tried keyboards were they had this backwards and it was infuriating to need two hands to pause the music quickly but only one hand to press F6 (spoiler alert, I’ve never pressed F6 in my life, and probably never will)Anyway, wasted enough time writing this to hopefully help you realize you’ve wasted enough time looking for a keyboard- this is the one.

This is a nice combination of size and function. The backlight is a nice upgrade over the Apple version. I like the plug in version as it never has a connection problem and never runs out of charge.

Let's get the 'bad' out of the way first:(Updated after connecting it to the M4 Mac mini)New: I liked it so much, I bought an extra one as a spare. I just started using it after sitting in the box for more than a year and a half. It has some partial loose inside, as I tilt it left/right.• The description shows 'integrated "kickstand"'. It's misleading. Would your bicycle's kickstand stick out all the time? The keyboard is designed to sit at an angle and is not adjustable.• There is no pass-through USB port, so either use a RF/Bluetooth mouse or use up another USB port.• The paint job sure looks like anodized aluminum, but it's painted injection-molding plastic. Nothing wrong with that, because the keyboard does dit squarely on the table surface and it's solid.• The illumination on the bottom and top row are not as bright as the ones in between. At a glance, I thought it was the font being smaller, but if you look at the cursor arrows, you, which has a larger glowing area, you will notice it's indeed dimmer. Again, not a huge deal.• It's a bit weird that the top and bottom keycaps are convex, but the more-frequently-used QWERTY keys are concave.• I wish the cable were detachable, because the 5' cable is still too long for my situation.• I wish the three indicator lights were shielded from the normal white LED, because those lights should be either dark or green, but because they are not shielded, it's slowing white.• Unlike the numeric-keypad-less mechanical keyboard, where the cable could be routed to the center, left, or right, this one comes out of the right (located in the back, between the F9 and F10 keys). Maybe a drawback for some.Now, the good:• I have been typing on the Macally keyboard writing the above. I can say that all of the keys have consistent feel. I remember buying another S-brand that has aluminum construction, but a few keys were either stuck or the pressure was inconsistent. This one is 40% less in price and works much better.• The function keys and layout are identical to the Mac's, so it operates identically as the regular Apple keyboard.• The four rubber feet are high quality and keep the keyboard firmly on the surface. They are 1" wide each.• May I say 'It just works and works well'.• A good Apple alternative, for those who want a USB keyboard.