9H Aluminum USB Wired Keyboard with Numeric Keypad for Mac Pro, Mini Mac, iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook Pro/Air, Laptop and PC Computer

I was immediately impressed by the feel of this keyboard. The keys have a very nice texture on the surface, and they have a nice spring during return, which makes typing pleasurable. It does not feel plastic-y at all, and it is extremely quiet. The body of the keyboard is all aluminum, with a polished beveled edge around the top surface so it looks nice, too. It does have non-slip rubber feet nicely positioned on the bottom. Something I would like to have included is one or two USB ports. There are no connections or ports except for the USB cable, which is permanently attached. On my particular keyboard, the right-hand shift button did not work well. But I was able to pop off the key cap and attach the mechanism correctly. Now everything works very well.

It seems harder to find a "real" wired Mac keyboard recently, so I ended up trying this one out, and I've been quite pleased. I had my original Mac keyboard for about five years, for my work (programming) computer until several of the keys just weren't working anymore. This one seemed a good enough deal to give it a shot. It's not exactly the same, but close enough that after spending a month having to use my MacBook's built in keyboard it was a welcome relief and I readjusted very quickly. It gets very heavy daily use and is holding up just fine. I'm liking it enough that I got a second one for my personal macbook as well.

Using with an Apple Mac. I like the keyboard and find it comfortable to use. I had replaced a small bluetooth Apple keyboard that did not have a number pad and seemed to eat batteries. This only issue that I have is that the Right Shift Key needs to be held in place for several seconds, otherwise it does not register. Kind of a pain, but I normally don't use this workstation frequently so I just have been working around it.

The keyboard looks beautiful and has a nice feel to it but the "a" key and the "7" key routinely don't register and you have to press it extremely hard or multiple times to get it to work. I had such great hopes for this but I no longer have the box and can't return it. I'm going to have to get something else and this was a waste of time and money. Sorry Macally - but you can do better than this. I bought this with the mouse - the mouse works wonderfully. just the keyboard falls short - perhaps I just got a bad one.

It costs 80% less than the Apple one, does the same, feels great, and has the same functionality. The design also looks good (black one). I would buy 3 of the same before the "original" one (and will still have money to buy a mouse).