UK Matias Tactile Pro for Mac - FK302-UK. Legendary Feel & Speed of Alps mechanical keyswitches. Mac users who crave the feel of Apple's legendary Extended and Extended II keyboards will love the Tactile Pro. 商品名：Matias Tactile Pro keyboard JP version for Mac 製品保証：12ヶ月. 整備済み品を特価でご提供いたします！ 整備済み品とは： 展示品／返品商品／初期不良品などを修理調整し、新品とほぼ同等の品質を確認した メーカー認定製品です。. I loved the review on the Matias Tactile Mac Keyboard, a great job. It is everything you say and more. I use the option, option shift functions on the Mac a lot doing engineering work.
Product Requirements: Device: Mac OS X computer or laptop with a free USB port, Windows PC or laptop with a free USB port Do high schools still teach touch typing these days? I don’t think I’ll ever forget Typing 101 with Mr. With his salt and pepper afro and the way he’d say gobblygook and apple pie order, I hated that class.
But all these years later, I’m glad I took it and learned to type. Hunt and pecking is fine for most folks, but I spend my entire day in front of a keyboard.
Having the ability to type up to 70 WPM allows me to answer help desk tickets quicker (day job), or compose a review faster (gadgeteer job). As a touch typist, I know what I like and don’t like when it comes to keyboards.
I definitely prefer a desktop keyboard to a laptop keyboard if only due to their overall size. I can’t stand my hands being cramped when I’m trying to type. Then there is key pitch and travel.
The pitch is the distance between keys, and the travel is the distance that a key moves when you press it down. While I like the keyboard on my PowerBook, it’s very flat and the key travel is shallow. That’s fine when I’m on the road, but when I’m at home, in my computer room, I want to be as comfortable as possible. That’s why I knew I had to try out the Tactile Pro Mac keyboard when I happened upon it during a google search. The Tactile Pro is a full-sized 108 key USB keyboard that has a lot going for it.
Besides looking pretty spiffy with it’s clear plastic shell, it has special Mac keys such as CD eject, volume up/down/mute, control, option, and a shutdown/restart/sleep button. All these special button features are plug and play if you are running OS X 10.3 or later. Earlier versions of the OS will require the installation of an included driver. In addition to the familiar English lettering on the key caps, there are also special characters and symbols available when you press the keys in combination with the option or shift-option keys. This really saves time when you need to type things like: ¢π©™ because you don’t need to launch a symbol picker to find them.
The keys themselves have superb tactile feedback hence the name Tactile Pro. This feedback is made possible due to the use of high quality Alps mechanical key switches. Although I have no prior experience with Apple keyboards, the Tactile Pro is supposed to be as great as the original Apple Extended Keyboards. All I can say is that this keyboard feels great to touch type on.
It reminds me of the old IBM keyboards in the computer lab when I was in college. I actually feel like I’m typing faster and more accurately when I’m here at home than when I’m at work using my IBM Intellistation keyboard. There’s definitely a crisper and more precise feel to it.
But this increased tactile feedback, comes at a price. The price is paid in clicks and clacks. Typing with this keyboard may annoy you, or those around you. If you happen to have your computer setup in a bedroom, your significant other may throw a pillow at you if you try to work when they might be trying to sleep. When I first started using the Tactile Pro, I was very much aware of the noise it produced. But like many things, you get used to it over time. Now I don’t notice it much at all and I might even say that I like the noise as it seems like I’m sort of making music while I type.
I get into a rhythm of clicks and clacks that gives me momentum to continue typing. Yeah, I’m weird. Like most keyboards, this one has two pop out stands that allow you to incline the keyboard into a comfortable typing angle. There’s also the built-in 2 port USB hub. There is one port on either side of the keyboard.
This is a great feature as I am able to plug in a USB mouse into the right port, and leave the left port for a PDA sync cable, or flash card reader. The only little gripe that I have is the fact that they are only USB 1.1 ports and not 2.0. Oh well I’ve been using this keyboard for several weeks and I have to tell you that I absolutely love it. I wish I had on at work too. My day job computer is a Windows PC and although this keyboard will work with a PC, the F13, F14, F15 keys are different from the usual PC keys in that location, and the Alt/Win keys are swapped.
I’m also not so sure that the the eject, volume buttons will work Matias is working on a PC version of this keyboard, but a release date is not available yet. My wish list for the next version of the Tactile Pro is pretty short. It would be great if it was wireless and had USB 2.0 ports.
It would also be nice if the price was a little cheaper. But you have to understand that this isn’t a $9.99 keyboard that you can pick up from Walmart or OfficeMax. This is a professional grade input device that any touch typist would love to get their hands on. Price: $99.95 Pros: Great tactile feedback 2 USB ports Special Mac keys Great look. I’ve had one of these for a month or two now, and like it very much (then again, I keep around a set of old IBM “clicky” (lexmark) keyboards for my PC hardware, too. The next thing I’d like to see is one of these without the numeric keypad – there’s a corresponding IBM one, same layout of the main keys, it’s just not so wide, making it more usable on a lap or keyboard tray. Even better would be to include an “eraserhead” trackpoint-stick, also common on IBMs of that era (and modern thinkpads.) The other thing I want to see is for a future version to take advantage of the clear plastic and have some internal lighting 🙂 Completely gratuitous, but it would look funky.
I would love to try the PC version when it comes out! I am so tired of the $19.99 mushy keyboards I have at work. Yes, (optional) lights would be cool, but only if they make the keys themselves more visible at night.
I am a touch-typist, but with the extended character set printed on the keys, it would be nice to be able to see them in the dark (being the cave-dwelling computer programmer that I am). I also very much miss the keyboards that were on some of the old Hewlett-Packard terminals on which I used to work. They had a good feel, but the keys themselves were pretty quiet. The cool part was that there was a speaker that you could turn on/off built into the bottom of the keyboard that would mimic IBM-style keystroke sounds. The sound from the speaker was very tactile — a keyboard “subwoofer” so to speak. If someone came out with that concept again, you could have it on during the day, and turn the “click” off at night when your SO is trying to sleep (avoiding the pillow in the face).
Call me crazy, but is the best keyboard I’ve ever used. (Note that the $134 price is in Canadian). For one thing, it has the same layout as my ThinkPad’s built-in keyboard, which is great because I don’t have any cognitive dissonance when switching from being docked to being mobile.
Unlike most laptop keyboards, ThinkPad keyboards don’t feel at all cramped and I can touchtype at full speed on it. The key travel and spacing are both virtually the same as a quality desktop keyboard.
If there’s one thing IBM does right, it’s keyboards! (ThinkPads are pretty hot too). It also has audio control buttons and a function-key button so I can access the ThinkPad’s laptop-esque functions (like monitor switch, suspend, etc.,) without switching keyboards. It has a full-size numeric keypad, trackpad, and NavPoint.
I nearly never use my mouse (unless I’m gaming). It has two USB (1.1) connectors on the back. And finally, it’s so light and thin I can use it virtually anywhere. Oh, and there’s no “click & clack” 🙂. I purchased the MTP Keyboard recently on the impression that I would be getting a Quality Keyboard worth $149. My purchase was based on that it was going to have a “New” Optimize Key on the keyboard that would allow you to assign certain functions to the keyboard like cut and paste to half the keyboard it was a cool option. But after my order without emailing or telling its pre-orders Matias decided to scrap this option.
It was still being advertised on its website plus the keys were a new design and not the Alps Keys. To Top this off the Website also pictured the F13,F14,F15 Keys as having Lights on them. They were mysteriously missing from the keyboard I had received. My Review before returning it. The overall feel of the keyboard is cheap (the plastic just not quality I would expect) and the keyboard risers would probably break if any weight was put on the keyboard. Each Key wiggles slightly before you depress it. It does not have the tight feel of a quality keyboard.
The angle of the Keyboard is also weird as well it sits too high and you can’t rest your wrists on your work surface and type without bending your hands up until its very uncomfortable. I was hoping for more and at $149 you should expect it. The misrepresentations of the MTP on Matias’s website are unforgivable. I have allergies and sinus issues 24/7 365 days a year. My nose is almost always a little sniffly. But I know I'm not the only person who has these types of issues. While several people on the team have reviewed air purifiers, the Airdog X5 is the first one I've tried out and the first one I'll be reviewing.
Why have I waited so long? I didn't want to deal with replacing (and buying) HEPA filters. The Airdog has no consumables. Stay tuned for my review coming soon.
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Keyboard Fk302-mac Matias Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard For Mac Windows 10
A Fn (Function) key lets you momentarily change the function keys back to their traditional duties. Anti-ghosting circuitry allows you to type as quickly as you're able without missing or additional letters and symbols. ™, €, £, ¥, and other hard-to-remember symbols are printed on the right side of the keys. Simply hold down the Option key for the bottom-right characters or Shift-Option for the top-right characters.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Deb N. From Great Spaced Keys for Touch Typist This purchase is actually a replacement for the only keyboard I can use these days with accuracy. Without revealing my age, in the day I worked on an IBM Selectric. Do you know what that is? If yes, keep reading. Have you noticed keys on modern boards are closer together?
If you were trained to touch type, you probably know what I am talking about. The switch in these keys will have a familiar feeling to you, and there will be a lot less spell check needed because the keys are placed where they should be. At full size. I can type again. Would highly recommend.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Hib Halverson from Good replacement keyboard for Mac Ok. Most buy this keyboard because they want the clack-clack nose and feeling of a keyboard with manual switches. I don't care one way or the other about the noise but I do like two things about this keyboard. 1) the feel of the keys as you push them and 2) that there is just a tiny bit more space around each key. I spent quite a bit of time researching keyboard upgrades and this one was my choice because its a good value. The only negative? Occasionally, on start up, when I have my trackball connected to the USB hub in the keyboard, the trackball is not recognized and I have to disconnect then reconnect the trackball to enable it.
Matias has good tech support and they've suggested some solutions but it may also be a problem with the T-ball, itself. Rated 5 out of 5 by macmurf from Exactly what I was hoping for, perfect keyboard. Keyboard is far easier to use due to direct tactile feedback through keys along with high profile allowing easy location, especially useful for less than professional touch typists like myself. Additionally it serves as an additional USB hub which saves me the expense of purchasing stand alone hub as I was preparing to do. Excellent product and standard excellent, totally professional B&H service. Would recommend product and store to anyone.