new Computer keyboard - recommendations?

[Macca]

Lol - very good. I get what you're saying, but you shouldn't have to play such games. It should simply be a case of sending your employers proof of purchase of your keyboard, and them reimbursing you with a smile on their face, as you're not asking for anything 'special' or that you're not entitled to, so why fanny about?

Sorry, that's just not how things work in my world - or at least the one that I insist on living in!

Marco.

lol I'd have to be a lot higher up the pay scale before I could get away with doing that.

[Marco]

Lol - you're simply reaffirming why I stopped 'working for the man', early doors, and became my own boss, as I just wouldn't put up with that pish. Tolerating being taken advantage of like that, and effectively allowing employers to walk all over you, is the main reason why in so many areas, workers today are treated like crap and job satisfaction/morale is so low.

Anyway, not long to you retire or get the redundancy package you want

Marco.

[dave2010]

Interesting thread this, particularly about the Apple keyboards since 2016 or so. I have a Macbook Pro from 2013. When the battery failed a few years ago I had it serviced, and the Apple store people noticed that the keboard wasn't working properly either after the new battery install, so they put in a new keyboard. I also have a very cheap plastic wireless keyboard - this one I think - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/OMOTON-Ul...8797439&sr=8-3 which doesn't satisfy the OPs requirememts (wireless and no numeric pad) but it's good because it's lighweight, and will work with iPads and go in a backpack. Otherwise it's cheap and plasticcy - but cheap is quite good in this case. I had several of the original Apple wireless keyboards, which were good up to a point, but with a blank-blank very stupid design flaw. It wasn't the keys which failed, but rather the AA batteries, which could then get stuck inside and sometimes be impossible to get out, resulting in my having to send what were otherwise perfectly good keyboards - and quite expensive ones too - to the dump. Apart from that issue, the original Apple wireless keyboards can be picked up on eBay for maybe not too much - and currently one seller claims to have new and unused ones - but they become useless as soon as dodgy batteries are put in which corrode and get stuck inside. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-...MAAOSwkIJfb3oi

Re Apple generally - some of their kit is really good, and simlarly some of the software, but I have been right peed off by the Catalina update which I did earlier this year, which efffectively trashed some of the software I was using on my Macbook Pro. However, we recently bought a "cheap" 27 inch iMac -2019 model from John Lewis, and apart from the fusion drive which is noisier than I'd like, it's really good. However, it did cost around £1300 even at the sale price, so not fitting in the cheaper class of machines mentioned up thread. It's way faster than my i7 based laptop on anything based on video - such as video editing, though benchmark testing suggests that the i7 is still very fast for raw processing tasks.

Allegedly the very latest Mac mini with the M1 chip is supposed to be very fast and affordable, but I probably don't need one!