I’ve talked with lots of folks locally about the new generation of Mac keyboards, the ones that have chiclet keys on an aluminum board. These new keyboards are derived from the “success” of the same chiclet styled keyboards first encountered on the MacBooks.
My opinion of these new keyboards was, I was told, singularly unique: I think that they’re tricky to use, and from a quality control perspective, it seems that there are some keyboards that work better than others. They’re certainly an acquired taste, and it takes a considerable transition time to get used to them. However, even after I’ve picked up some modicum of comfort with them, it’s still much-much easier to jump back into using other keyboards, including the old Mac lucite keyboards.
But apparently, I’m not as crazy as local folks have thought: Macworld.com has a recent article about prolonged use of the Mac aluminum keyboards that describes less-than-stellar performance.
My current workflow pattern has fortunately allowed me to switch fairly rapidly between the aluminum and lucite keyboards, depending on circumstances.
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