Macally Full Size USB Wired Keyboard for Mac and PC - Plug & Play Wired Computer Keyboard - Compatible Apple Keyboard with 15 Shortcut Keys for Easy Controls & Navigation of Macbook Pro/Air, iMac

Great keyboard.. love that it is hard wired and has the keypad.

After 3 decades my Apple keyboard finally went last week. I looked at Best Buy, but decided to go with Amazon, since I get almost everything else on Amazon. I chose this MaCally keyboard, not just because the price was amazing, but because the keyboard looked the most like my old one which i'm used to. I had presumed all keyboards were alike, but that is not the case. After decades of typing on my old Mac, I wasn't looking forward to reinventing the wheel. I just wanted the keys where I was used to finding them. Hardware is also not my thing, so I was a bit nervous about setting it up. But, it really wasn't very hard at all. I will say that this keyboard is way lighter than my old Mac keyboard. So, I simply cut a piece of non-skid matting and put that under the keyboard. So now, the keyboard doesn't slide all over the desk area. Honestly, at this price point it was a no-brainer. Delivered with care and on time by Amazon--in the middle of a snow/ice storm. You can't beat Amazon service!

The keyboard appears to be plug n play. I took it out of the box and plugged it in. It worked. Don't like the key switches after using an Apple keyboard but it is functional.

wired, works

Using this off-brand keyboard for a few days fixed the official name-brand keyboard. I know this is a ridiculous claim, but here's what happened:At work we have an iMac for secondary purposes (such as making sure stuff also works on iOS and watching Netflix). It doesn't get used much, but it is beyond its warranty. The $50+ official Macintosh keyboard that came with it one day suddenly stopped responding to presses of the spacebar. (Everything else still worked.) I removed, cleaned, and reattached the spacebar a few times, and also rebooted the machine several times, but the spacebar would not start working again. (Apparently spacebar failure is very common in official Macintosh keyboards.)For the sake of typing the space character, I hooked up a for-Windows PC USB keyboard that I bought at the second-hand thrift store for a whole dollar. I also reattached the original Mac keyboard for the usefulness of its extra buttons such as the volume controls. This was an acceptable arrangement for a while, but then the Mac spacebar started to get and remain "stuck," even after I fully removed the physical key. (The experienced effect was that web pages would scroll all the way down, because that's what typically happens when you hammer the spacebar when no input field has focus. Netflix playback also experienced seizures because the spacebar pauses and resumes videos.)I detached the fancy-pants aluminum keyboard because of its latest malfunction, leaving us with just the plain ol' PC keyboard. Again, this was a mostly acceptable solution, but we eventually decided we should get an operating-system-appropriate keyboard since the Windows key doesn't behave like the Quatrefoil key and the PC F[unction] keys don't do any of the extra stuff that the Mac F[unction] keys do, so we ordered this one for $20.After a few days of use, I was about to put away the old Mac keyboard when I thought of trying one more test: I went to keyboardtester-dot-com, plugged in the old keyboard and started mashing keys. To my surprise, the spacebar was working properly again!We put this new keyboard back in its box and we're holding on to it as an emergency backup, but unless the official Mac keyboard craps out again, we'll probably never ever use it again (for lack of need).By the way, this "Macally 103 Key Full-Size USB Keyboard with Short-Cut Keys for Mac" isn't really full-size; it's about an inch narrower than an actual "full-size" keyboard, which is achieved by smooshing the arrow keys and the six above between the main keys and the num pad, so its actually a "compact keyboard (with num pad)."The keys are comfortable to press, but one person said she kept getting confused by the compact arrangement of the arrows and the six above. I should knock a star off for this, but this product earns an extra 10 stars for A) having a functioning spacebar, B) fixing the other keyboard, and C) not being *incredibly* overpriced like everything else for Mac is.

Plugged it in and it worked right away. Only 'complaint' is that it feels much more flimsy than the original Apple keyboard. Other than that, can't beat the price!

Meh? It's okay. I love the setup of the keyboard, but it seems a little clunky to use. And I keep getting random periods mid-sentence. Not sure what's up with that. The keyboard works, and it's okay for now. But I'd like to find something that works smoother. I'll just keep this one for a back-up.

Funciona correctamente. Es un teclado sin más. No se ve un gran acabado pero cumple con su cometido. Por el precio esta más que bien.